So says Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weiss. The Sun-Times reports. The police chief asking a bunch of high-school students to snitch? That’ll go over well. The sad part, at least to me, is that if it weren’t for the video, this would have been just another death in the hood. Another dead black kid, little reported and quickly forgotten. And…
Month: September 2009
“Zero tolerance for what?”
Here’s a great interview from Investigative Voice with Baltimore homicide detectives Irving Bradley and David Hollingsworth. You had to be an actor. I had to convince you, what I was telling you to do was the right thing to do. Even though before I got you, you had torn out every window in the neighborhood, you had torn up somebody’s…
A story of no story
The other night I had a minor but perhaps brilliant idea. What if there were a correlation between the numberof prisons in a state and that state’s incarceration rate? Perhaps the more prisons there are, the greater the political influences that play in a state, leading to more people locked up! Prison-Industrial-Complex shit I’m talking about! Of course, biggerstates would…
Fight. Don’t Kill.
Thinking about the street fight in Chicago makes me think Frank Zimring and Gordon Hawkins’ 1997 book, Crime is Not the Problem. They distinguish between crime and violence and argue convincingly that America’s problem is not crime but violence. Other nations have as much if not more crime, they say. They just don’t kill each as much. Zimring and Hawkins…
Nasty street fight in Chicago
One 16-year-old high-school honors student student gets sucker-hit with a large piece of wood, then cold cocked, and finally stomped and beaten to death. All this caught on video in front of a large screaming (and sometimes cheering) crowd. Finally some nearby adults carry try and rescue him and carry him away, but it’s too late. Derrion Albert died. Foxhas…
Hoosier Grandmother Arrested for Purchasing Cold Medication
The Agitator has the story.
New Heroin Addicts
“Believe it or not, as a high school teenager, [heroine] was easier for us to get than alcohol,” he said. “It’s cheaper than anything out there.” That’s because alcohol is legal and restricted and heroin is prohibited and unrestricted. But I guess it’s only newsworthy when rich white kids get hooked. Here’s the story in the New York Times.
Terrorist Plot to Destroy New York City
Some desperate [terrorists] decided to [destroy American cities]. The idea was to … team up with disaffected [locals] to wreak havoc. For New York City the plans were particularly grandiose. [Terrorists] would infiltrate the country from Canada, make their way to the metropolis, and set off fires around town. … [Terrorists] would revenge the [destruction of their land] by ravaging…
“At some point we got numb to the violence”
After a couple weeks of extreme violence, including one night with a fatal accident, three shooting, the homicide of a 9-year-old as he slept in bed, and another suspicious death, the religious community is challenging Saginaw’s citizens to become angry about violence. I am sure this message is full of good intentions. The problem is that I have, over the…
More from Mexico
The BBC has a good video reportage on the latest gun battles between the drug mob and police. This time in the port city of Lazaro Cardenas, Michoacán. The complete disrespect the drug people have for law enforcement is shocking. They engage in gun battles with heavily armed police and expect to win. Sometimes they do.