“So I killed someone,” Keith Phoenix, 28, told New York police detectives who found him hiding in the bathroom of a Yonkers apartment, the police said. “That makes me a bad guy?” Er, uh… yeah. It does. The story is in the Times.
Month: February 2009
Four Shot in Eastern
None killed.
B*tch, stop lying!
Mexican Attorney General Eduardo Medina Mora claims that US cocaine prices have increased 100% and purity dropped by 35% since the Mexican crackdown began in 2006. Really? Let’s examine that, shall we? In April 2007 John Walters (the drug czar) said that cocaine prices had declined 11 percent from February 2005 to October 2006, to about $135 per pure gram…
Wait till Next Year!
“Mexican president rejects ‘failed state’ label.” Well, I suppose he would. He also says he’ll have the war on the drugs pretty much wrapped up when he leaves office in 2012. Mean more than 1,000 people have been killed in Mexican war-on-drugs violence in the first eight weeks of 2009. According to the Mexican Attorney General, Eduardo Medina Mora, the…
Fender bender probe could cost NYPD captain his career
If they want to get you, they can always find a way. “A patrol car’s $221 side-view mirror could wind up costing an NYPD captain his career. A story about a double-parked cruiser and a minor fender bender has snowballed into allegations of conspiracy and coverup.” The whole storyis in the Daily News. This is compstat pressure. Or traffic-stat or…
For a Police Surge
More cops. Less crime. Plus it’s good for the economy. Ready the interesting article by William J. Stuntz in the Weekly Standard. House and Senate alike are making a serious error. For $5 billion per year–five years’ funding would be about 3 percent of the stimulus package–lawmakers could put another 50,000 cops on city streets. Doing so would likely both…
More wars!
Why are teen prostitutes “victims” who need to be “rescued” and drug users “criminals” who need to be “punished”? Here’s the story in the Miami Herald. FBI Deputy Assistant Director Daniel Roberts said, “The goal is to recover kids. We consider them the child victims of prostitution.” Well that’s awfully sweet of him to say. Sounds to me like the…
Kathryn Johnston
Three years after the police killed Kathryn Johnston the case is almost finished winding through court. Johnston is one of those names you should know, another victim of the war on drugs. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has the whole story. It includes these lines: “Tesler said when he joined the narcotics unit, he was told to ‘sit, watch and learn’ from…
Growing Support for Legalized Pot
For the first time more than 40%. Read about it at 538.com. My world? I would guess 90% of my friends (99% not counting Baltimore cops) and 75% of my students support legal marijuana.
11-year-old kills family
What do you do with an 11-year-old murderer? Really. I have no idea. Here’s an excerpt of the story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Jordan Brown, a fifth-grader from New Beaver, Lawrence County, allegedly killed his father’s pregnant girlfriend, Kenzie Marie Houk, 26. Police say he used the child-sized 20-gauge hunting shotgun his father, Chris, had given him for Christmas. Ms.…