I’ll be on Hot 97’s Street Soldiers with Lisa Evers this coming Sunday morning (it was prerecorded today). Rounding out the roundtable is Noel Leader, co-founder of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care, and Norman Seabrook, President of the New York City Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association. It’s a lively hour. You’ll hear me question Brooklyn rapper Uncle Murda as…
Category: Police
I’m on Twitter
For those who believe this whole “new media” thing isn’t simply part of liberal fiction and the socialist agenda, you can follow all my twats (that is what they’re called, right?) @petermoskos. Personally, I’m skeptical. I think Twitter is a plot to get us to believe global warming is real and everybody should have health care. What I doknow is…
Drug Warrior Drug Dealers
El Paso County Commissioner Willie Gandara Jr. recently said: Legalizing drugs is the coward practice of combating cartels, it is an insult to our men and women in law enforcement, and the laziest form of parenting our children and youth about the effects of drugs…. Unfortunately, on this upcoming primary election we will have many wolves in sheep’s clothing running…
Another Day at the Office (II)
From Sarah Armaghan in the Daily News: Sgt. Craig Bier and Officer Donnell Myers [were] in an unmarked car … when the gunfire started. Myers, who was in the driver’s seat, whipped his head around to see Chinloy squeezing off shots from a .40-caliber Glock handgun at some people in front of a store, police said. “When Officer Myers looks…
Police versus Disciples in Chicago
There’s some good reporting by Frank Main of the Chicago Sun-Times. He goes beyond Police Supt. Garry McCarthy’s bombast (“We’re going to obliterate that gang,” he told police brass in a meeting in June. “Every one of their locations has to get blown up until they cease to exist.”) to talk to actual gang members. I’m generally tempted to dismiss…
“Your stated interest is in being a cowboy”
Ta-Nehisi Coates has good thoughts on the New York Times piece by Binyamin Applebaum and Robert Gebeloff describing how people vote against the government programs they receive. This isn’t necessarily against their own interests. As Coates says: What I strongly suspect is the sort of shame you see in Mr. Falk’s is neither crazy, nor ignorant, nor shocking, once you…
Jeffrey Goldberg on the crime drop in DC
And talking to Washington’s police chief, Cathy Lanier. Bloomberg.com: Lanier outlined some of the changes in the way her department does its job — procedural, technological and investigative changes that I suspect have more to do with the drop in homicides than sociologists might credit. I suspect the same.
My most requested record
This may surprise you, but my all-time most-read post, by far, has (almost) nothing to do with police or the war on drugs. This post has gotten more hits (by more than a 2:1 margin) than my next most-read post. And the latter was featured in the Atlantic Wire. My most-read post is about a young black man of no…
Up with Up with Chris Hayes
I’ve always loved doing radio interviews and never been keen on TV. Partly because most TV is so stupid. Why should I put on a suit to get driven to Manhattan (they don’t like it if you make your own way to the studio) to stare into a camera and then say a talking point to somebody I can’t see…
Me on “Up with Chris Hayes”
Tune in tomorrow (Saturday) around 8:40AM (Eastern Time) to MSNBC.