I previously wrote about how liberals generally don’t quite understand why some, police included, had problems with his over-paid Jersey-living shacked-up-with-a-cop-hating-felon wife’s former chief of staff. De Blasio, like many non-working-class liberals, is pretty clueless about policing and police officers. Leonard Levitt said it on politico: His words and his deeds don’t match… You had Noerdlinger’s son calling cops ‘pigs’…
Category: Police
Thinking beyond “the Thin Blue Line”
Read my whole piece at CNN: Most citizens can be forgiven for going through their day without thinking of anarchy or barbarians storming the gates. But many police, especially in New York City, see themselves as a thin blue line besieged by both a liberal and criminal world, neither of which they particularly like or understand. Large protests, especially when…
“Right now there’s nothing I’d rather be than a Brooklyn cop”
A friend (and former student) of mine, Officer Musorov, just posted this on facebook. You might see him on the streets of Crown Heights. He makes me proud! “When the Rhetoric of scandal — rogue cops, racist cops, and so on — becomes the received idea, when we are so engrossed by exceptions that they seem like rules, we still…
NYPD vs. DeBlasio
Cops turning their back on Mayor DeBlasio.
Two Officers Down
Shot and killed. Ambushed in their car in Brooklyn. Earlier the killer shot his ex-girlfriend in Baltimore.
“If you point a gun at a police officer…”
I mention this article by Peter Katel in CQ Researcher (alas, behind a pay wall) because, along with lots of good stuff, there’s a quote I wasn’t expecting coming from my man Norm “a liberal critic of much police strategy” Stamper: A video of the [Tamir Rice] shooting — showing a police car driving up next to the boy, who…
High security walls may increase violent crime.
This is interesting, albeit about South Africa. But the basic idea is this: Walls are actually making things worse. “No one can see what is happening in your home so no one can help,” she told the [South African] Daily News. They keep people from being each other’s natural lookout. And they are an even bigger barrier to social cohesion,…
The real Michael Brown
Yesterday I had a nice walk and dinner with a good group of cops who were to appear on CNN’s Cops Under Fire about cops who have been involved in shootings. I also met Darren Wilson’s lawyer. So I asked him a few things about Officer Wilson and Michael Brown. The decisive evidence? Brown’s actual skin on the slide and…
What about “fruit of the poisened tree”?
From NPR: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday ruled that police officers don’t necessarily violate a person’s constitutional rights when they stop a car based on a mistaken understanding of the law. The court said the officer made a “reasonable mistake.” Hence it’s not an unreasonable search and seizure. The case involved drugs found after a traffic light for one…
Pot is in the news
From the LA Times: Tucked deep inside the 1,603-page federal spending measure is a provision that effectively ends the federal government’s prohibition on medical marijuana and signals a major shift in drug policy. The bill’s passage over the weekend marks the first time Congress has approved nationally significant legislation backed by legalization advocates. It brings almost to a close two…