Baltimore has 73,000 arrests per year in a city of 620,000. Mass arrest & incarceration are not working to combat #OpioidEpidemic — Leana Wen, M.D. (@DrLeanaWen) March 29, 2016 No, it doesn’t. Wait a second… if you think Baltimore has 73,000 arrests, watch this magic: [POOF!] I just reduced arrests by 63 percent! There were fewer than 28,000 arrests in…
Category: Police
Chicago violence
Maybe killers don’t dress with such flair in Chicago as they do in Detroit. But what Chicago murders lack in quality, they make up for in quantity. Some experts prefer to put their head in the sand and hope it all goes away: “Trying to read too much into this is a grave mistake,” said Craig B. Futterman, a clinical…
I wanna be a cowboy…
In some ways this is just another shooting in the hood. But I post it because, well, look at her Jessie getup! Also, she packs her gun in her panties. And there’s high quality video. Does there have to be more? I wanna be a cowboy… and she can my cowgirl. This is the violence problem in America. Have an…
“What messy justice looks like: After Peter Liang’s killing of Akai Gurley, DA Ken Thompson does the right thing twice”
Harry Siegel’s excellent column in the Daily News: The progressive prosecutor — elected on a promise to salvage Brooklyn justice from the oxymoronic state his predecessor had reduced it to — did the right thing first in holding the cop to account and convicting him before a jury of his New York City peers, and again in recommending that he…
Who is this man?
Does anybody recognize this guy from Humans of New York? More than 13,000 shares and 147,000 likes on facebook. He says he was a Baltimore cop for 21 years and a heroin addict the entire time. It’s not inconceivable, but it doesn’t ring true. I see a guy sitting on a bench in NYC with a story. I don’t believe…
Bratton on Cruz
Bill Bratton in the Daily News: There seems to be a widespread belief among certain members of the political class that protecting the country against terrorism is a matter of ideology. According to them, the strong leaders in this area are the ones who are willing to insult Muslims, advocate torture, and engage in various other provocations. They claim that…
“Queens Man Accused of Making Over 30 False Calls to 911”
This doesn’t happen enough(the prosecution, not the BS calls to 911): In all, the authorities said, more than 30 calls were made over a month, none for actual emergencies. On Friday, prosecutors in Queens said that they had all been traced to one man. He told the fire marshal investigating the case that he made the calls. “My uncle is…
Arrest of Postal Worker in Crown Heights
Unless there’s more to this story that hasn’t come out — and there may be (though I wouldn’t bet on it) — this is inexcusably shitty. The video: So is this unrelated incident in 2013 when a cop made a left turn into and killed a teacher crossing the street. It’s all too common for drivers in error to get…
Who should you vote for?
Somebody got it all figured out:
Legalize It All
Dan Baum has written a bunch of good books about a variety of subjects, and I’ve mentioned him many times on this blog (search for his name, if you want). I first met Dan and his wife, Margaret, in New Orleans in 2007. The title of my book, “In Defense of Flogging,” was coined the night I met them, at…