Chicago Police Superintendent Jody Weiss is in contempt of court for not releasing the names of officers who have a least five citizen complaints filed against them since 2000. The story in the Sun Times.
And 7 Chicago officer broke rules by letting a 14-year-old to get a radio and go on patrol with a two-year veteran. The story in the Tribune.
Be a prison guard at the Eden Detention Center in Texas and work for the private (publicly traded) for-profit Correction Corporation of America. Get paid $14.99/hour (about $30K/year). Must be willing to work all shifts. GED and valid driver’s license required.
According to their website:
CCA houses approximately 75,000 offenders and detainees in more than 60 facilities, 44 of which are company-owned, with a total bed capacity of more than 80,000. CCA currently partners with all three federal corrections agencies (The Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Marshals Service and Immigration and Customs Enforcement), nearly half of all states and more than a dozen local municipalities.
Texas spends almost $99,000 per year for each incarcerated juvenile.
No longer allowed in Nassau County, Long Island, NY.
Judge Leonard D. Wexler found that the Fourth Amendment prohibits jail officials from performing such searches on every person sent to the jail, particularly those arrested on a misdemeanor or minor charge like a traffic violation, and those who cannot be reasonably suspected of carrying a concealed weapon or drugs.
I still say they’re OK for Baltimore City. The courts may disagree.
Peter Hermann has a nice article giving Academy Awards for drug busts.
So, if we’re handing out Academy Awards for cocaine seizures, Bealefeld’s Oscar might read “Best director for a drug bust,” while Clark’s might read “Best supporting director for a drug bust.”
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It is a sad reminder that the drugs keep pouring in despite year after year of “record seizures.” Wouldn’t be nice to see Bealefeld standing in front of an empty pallet declaring victory in the drug war?
One in twenty-seven Maryland adults are current in the correction system. Twenty-seven percent of those are behind bars. This is, sad to say, about par for the national average.
In Maryland, it costs $86 per day to lock a person up.
Here’s an article in the New York Timesabout the (weak) link between security cameras and crime prevention.
Spin this all want, drug warriors, it’s not good. From Ciudad Juárez. The whole story in the New York Times is here.
It was drug traffickers who decided that Chief Roberto Orduña Cruz, a retired army major who had been on the job since May, should go. To make clear their insistence, they vowed to kill a police officer every 48 hours until he resigned.
They first killed Mr. Orduña’s deputy … together with three of his men. Then another police officer and a prison guard turned up dead. As the body count grew, Mr. Orduña eventually did as the traffickers had demanded, resigning his post on Feb. 20 and fleeing the city.
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“I’m not going to give in,” [the mayor] vowed in an interview, welcoming the arrival of soldiers so that the traffickers will feel the heat even more.
Mexico doesn’t need more heat.
How many days left till we win the war on drugs?