Let’s play a game called “write the headline.” Here’s the story from the New York Times: According to the latest federal figures, which were part of an annual survey, Monitoring the Future…. The report looked at a wide variety of drugs and substances. It found, for example, that drinking was steadily declining, with roughly 40 percent of high school seniors…
Month: December 2013
14 years on, if I were still a cop
Today is my EOD, just FYI. The day before the day that will live in infamy. I’m thrilled I don’t have another 9 to go.
Broken Windows does not equal Zero Tolerance
This article in Slate by Justin Peters is perhaps not the stupidest thing I’ve ever read on policing. But it is the stupidest thing I’ve read about Broken Windows since Bratton was announced as the next NYPD commissioner about 20 hours ago. Peters writes, “Broken-windows strategies and zero-tolerance policing strategies go hand in hand.” Well, no. They don’t. Bill Bratton…
Good news from Chicago
NBC Chicago Reports via Atlantic Cities: Chicago closed out the first 11 months of 2013 with 380 murders, a drop from 474 in the same period of 2012, according to police data. That’s the fewest for any year in Chicago since 1965, according to Adam Collins, the Chicago Police Department Director of News Affairs.
De Blasio Names Bratton as New York Police Commissioner
This is exciting news for policing (and police research) in NYC.
Bloomberg Defends NYPD’s Controversial Stop And Kiss Program
Dang is the Onion funny. Watch the video here.