A contributing factor to declining homicide. Some more details about what’s gotten better about medical treatment over the past decade. In the BBC.
Month: May 2013
"It's Torching" — A Traincrash of Speech
There’s a a video on youtube of a guy and his friend (and baby, in babyseat in the back seat) driving toward a fire and then explosion of a train blowing up just outside Baltimore (don’t worry… according to authorities it’s just “toxic” but nothing to worry about). So I’m watching this video thinking, “These guys are likely candidates for…
End Mass Shootings? The Four-Percent Solution.
Of the twenty-five worst shootings in the US since 1994 only one was committed by an African American. The vast majority of shootings, twenty-two of twenty-five, were committed by whites and Asians. And these are the two groups most underrepresented in our criminal justice system. It’s entirely conceivable that African-Americans are underrepresented in the annals of mass murders because of…
Tic-Toc Like Clockwork
Jeanmarie Evelly of DNAInfo.com writes about a “massive drug sweep” in the Queensbridge* and Ravenswood Homes in Astoria/Long Island City. 28 people indicted; 23 others arrested for selling drugs to undercover cops on “hundreds of separate occasions over an eight month span from 2012-2013.” Well, slap my back and declare victory. Just like we I wrote about in 2009. And…
Good Cop
The Reese Witherspoon arrest on video. You know what I like? Reese: “I have to obey your order?!” Officer: “Yes, you do. Well done, officer. Well handled. Grace under pressure. Witherspoon: “Do you know my name… You’re about to find out who am I.” Officer: “That’s fine. I’m not really worried about you, Ma’am.” … Witherspoon: “I’m an American citizen,…
“Crazy Crooks & Kookie Cops”
Seen at a thrift store in Silver City, New Mexico.