The other day my wife and I were walking down a street near we live and I stopped across the street from a handsome old brick building. View Larger Map “I bet that used to be the police station,” I said. “How do you know?” “I don’t know.” I didn’t know how I knew. But I knew. It just looked…
Month: March 2011
Regulated Vice
Legalizing and regulated vice sure makes things easier and safer. Here’s the latest story, from the BBC, on such matters as prostitution in Amsterdam. The war on prostitution doesn’t affect society like the war on drugs does. But it’s just as crazy! Of course prostitution should be legal and regulated. Duh!
The cost for weed arrests just went up
Last week I reported that marijuana arrests in New York City cost the city $75 million per year. In truth, that’s a pretty conservative estimate. One thing left out is the cost of actually testing the drugs people are arrested for. Now if somebody takes a quick plea, the drugs may never be tested. But with 50,000 marijuana arrests, there…
Eastern District Officer Shot
On Harford road by armed guy on a bike. The suspect was also shot. The story in the Sun.
Movies: Adjustment Bureau & Precious
Not that you asked (you didn’t), but here’s what I thought of two movies I just saw: “Adjustment Bureau.” Good stuff. I liked it. Cool. Great concept. Good New York movie. But really I’m here to tell you about the other one: “Precious.” What? “Precious”? Isn’t that so 2009? Yes, but I didn’t see it till 2011. Why? Because every…
Broken Windows (or booze bottles)
This type of crime bothers me far more than it should. Known (at least to the cognoscente) as the “Broken Bottle Scam,” some S.O.B. bumps into somebody (usually a tourist), drops a bottle of booze, and confrontationally demands $40 for a replacement. That’s old-school New York and it’s wrong. Crap like that preys on the weak, makes people afraid of…
Camden brings back some police, firefighters
The AP story.
“Retiree who yelled ‘Gun’ has ‘annoying habit’ of visiting crime scenes”
“He listens to scanners and races to locations where police are called, a source told the New York Post.”
The DEA and the Death Penalty
Good ol’ Radley has the most interesting take I’ve read. The subject is the DEA seizing death-penalty drugs in Georgia because they were… bought illegally from a foreign country.
“My name is Frunk-en-steen”
That’s a “Young Frankenstein” reference, for all you kids out there. That’s from back in the days when Mel Brooks was funny. Or at least funny to a seven-year-old. I watched that from the family Datsun with my dad and brother at the old Sunset Drive-Inon McCormick Blvd in Skokie, ILL. Man, I sound like I’m getting old… Maybe I…