I mentioned the turkey leg killing story to my classes today. Many of the NYPD officers in my class had heard the story! How? I don’t know. It really is like a police urban myth. None claimed it as a New York City story. But none had any idea where it was from.
Category: Police
Phelps and weed
Read The Agitator’s letter that Phelps should say. Brilliant.
Bong Hits for Phelps
Too bad it’s illegal. The News of the World has the scoop: A picture of Gold Medal swimmer Michael Phelps (gasp!), smoking marijuana (gasp!) from a bong (double gasp!) So what? Most people (at least young Americans) have smoked marijuana. Many from a bong. You can smoke marijuana and live a perfectly functional, even gold-medal winning life. And certain lifestyles,…
Cell phone jamming
As President Obama’s motorcade rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, federal authorities deployed a closely held law enforcement tool: equipment that can jam cellphones and other wireless devices to foil remote-controlled bombs, sources said. It is an increasingly common technology, with federal agencies expanding its use as state and local agencies are pushing for permission to do the same.…
Killed Over a Loosey
A 30-year-old man was chased down by four women and stabbed more than 20 times early Sunday after arguing with them over a broken cigarette, sources said. Here’s the story in the Chicago Sun Times: “The slain man, Morris Wilson, was drinking with the four women at about 2 a.m. when he broke a cigarette, angering the women, a source…
General Says Shoot Drug Trafficers in Afghanistan
Not only is it illegal, it’s stupid! Here’s the story in the Times. Maybe Obama will fire Gen. John Craddock, this idiot. In a confidential letter to NATO, he wrote: “It was no longer necessary to produce intelligence or other evidence that each particular drug trafficker or narcotics facility in Afghanistan meets the criteria of being a military objective.” That…
Police Blogs
There are a lot. And a metablog about them.
More on the 14-year-old cop impersonator
In the Chicago Tribune.
Stories of the Eastern
I got Badges, Bullets & Bars in the mail and started reading it. I am amazed (maybe pleased is a better word) to find that one story — a police urban myth I constantly heard — is true. There are many crazy stories cops tell. And every squad has its own ghosts. Most of the stories are probably true (you…
Prisoners no longer will work at farm
This is a shame. And stupid. One guy escaped. So what? From the Newark Start Ledger.