I have no special insight into this. I really don’t know what to make of it. My first thoughts are give the guy a break. The deputy major of the Baltimore Police Department’s Eastern District has been suspended pending an internal investigation into allegations that he failed to disclose a series of text messages he exchanged with a man sought…
Pay (most) Cops More
Port Authority of New York and Jersey is not a bad place to work. They run all the airports and most of the bridges. I got to say, I’m a little jealous that if I were a Port Authority Police Officer, I would be making $86,467 in base pay. Still, I wouldn’t switch back. Police officers do risk more than…
NYC pays $35 million for police-related lawsuits
I’ve always wondered and never knew how much police-related lawsuits cost the city. Last year it was $35 million for settlements related to NYPD action. That up 40% over the previous year. The headline in the Daily News calls the $35 million figure “staggering.” It doesn’t strike me as that high. $8 a resident or $1,000 per officer? I got…
Police History: Patrol
This great historical tidbit is from the Edinburgh Review of July 1852. The original article, in pdf form, is here. The whole journal can be found on google books. I discovered this through Marjie Bloy’s excellent website on English history. She has a lot on Sir Robert Peel and early police (that’s how I found it). During the night they…
Taxing Drugs
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that the federal government will no longer raid medical-marijuana dispensaries was cheered by California dealers as well as state legislators who seek to legalize and tax sales of the drug. … Marijuana is [estimated as] a $14 billion crop in California. Taxing the drug $50 an ounce… would generate more than $1 billion annually…
Always a day away
When you work midnights, there’s no tomorrow. While you’re up, everything is “today.” Then, when you head home, you know you’ve got to be at work again on the same day. Tonight. Today. There is no “tomorrow.” It never comes.
It gets early late out there
To all the cops working the midnight shift, here’s to the start of daylight saving’s time! One shorter night at work and an extra hour before sunrise. Life just got a little better.
Baltimore NAACP Vice President Arrested, Not Charged
The Vice President of the NAACP is out there copping like a junkie? He’s arrested and then not charged. I’m shocked. Shocked. WJZ reports: Police say Staten, who is an executive committee member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s Maryland conference, was in the driver’s seat of a car that had stopped near Pennsylvania Avenue and…
The Ed Norris Bike Ride
The Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #3 is pleased to announce and support the1st Annual “Ed Norris Bike Ride” Fundraiser to be held on Saturday, March 28th, that will support the newly established Baltimore Metropolitan FOP Police Widows and Children’s Fund. How can this be? I’m all for bike rides and raising money for good causes, but I…
How to Stop the Drug Wars
Long before the Simpsons did it, my brother started quoting ideas from the Economistjust to sound smart. I’ll be damned if quoting from them doesn’tmake him sound smarter! If you don’t read the Economist, you should. It’s notan economics journal. Just get over the name. It’s a world newspaper. But a magazine. And British. Like Timeand Newsweek. But for smart…