It’s kind of funny to watch the Left completely freak out at the mere suggestion from Comey that viral videos might have an impact on police on crime. See thisand this and this: "But he acknowledged that there is so far no data to back up his assertion…" https://t.co/ShhyMlv50H — Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 23, 2015 And this: Mr. Comey’s remarks…
Month: October 2015
“Nothing is uglier than a crab cake sandwich under tungsten lighting”
The third of three little remembrances of my policing days. There’s been a lot of talk recently about a so-called “Ferguson Effect.” I don’t know. It’s certainly possible. Even probably, I would say. There’s always been disincentives in the police world to actually doing any work, especially from those who see police as a force for bad. But you can’t…
Good times…
Baltimore, December 9, 2000: We get a call for disorderly on Somethingleaf Court. Turns into an armed person. Housing won’t take it. Man is there as promised. We get there and I frisk him. [Officer C] has his gun out. No gun. The guy said he gave this woman $20 for “you know, whatever”. He said he has “relations” to…
Just another day in the Eastern…
Sometimes it’s fun to re-read my old field notes. I should write a book or something. This is from Jan 24, 2001 (and better than my average day’s notes): [Officer A] and I are walking our 4 miles at 5am: “People say this is a good neighborhood with a few bad people. But it’s not. I’d say that 50% are…
Me and Bill O’Reilly
If you missed it, here’s me on Bill O’Reilly’s show from back September 1, talking about the non-increase of cops being killed. And here’s me again on October 8th.
“The Stop”
Ashley Cleek’s piece on car stops in Life of the Law. Nice piece. And I’m quoted in it.
Who’s Counting?
Chava Gourarie at Columbia Journalism Review with a great piece on data and police-involved killings.
Officer Down
NYPD Housing Cop Randolph Holder was shot and killed a few hours ago around 120th and FDR Drive. This is about a mile from my house (but a world away in East Harlem). Rest in Peace. Update: Apparently the killer was also a “non-violent drug offender.” From the Times: Last fall, the man suspected in the shooting, Tyrone Howard, was…
“Adrian Schoolcraft is no Frank Serpico”
Lenny Levitt on Adrian Schoolcraft: Larry [his father], who appeared to be calling the shots, hired and fired half a dozen lawyers…. Over the years, their behavior became increasingly bizarre. For months at a time they would disappear. They continually changed their phone numbers. At one point, one of the lawyers asked Frank Serpico, who lived nearby and had befriended…
“Was the Shooting of Tamir Rice ‘Reasonable’?”
Another good story by Leon Neyfakh in Slate. This one with some legal analysis on the two reports that judged the shooting of Tamir Rice in Cleveland “reasonable.” Here’s a link to the audio of the radio dispatch.