It’s not so much that blacks are more likely to get stopped while driving, it’s that blacks get searched much more than whites after a car stop. This has been documented for at least 20 years. I’m a bit surprised it’s still happening at this level. It was a big issue after the bullshit “drug courier” profiling scandals in the…
Liberals eating themselves
In the Comey story, in which a seemingly liberal FBI director discusses crime, police, race, and history and get pilloried by the left, the New York Times takes the cake. In some Bizarro World I’m not part of, The Grey Lady deemed Comey’s comments “incendiary” and playing “into the right-wing view that holding the police to constitutional standards endangers the…
Three Cheers for FBI Director Comey
It’s kind of funny to watch the Left completely freak out at the mere suggestion from Comey that viral videos might have an impact on police on crime. See thisand this and this: "But he acknowledged that there is so far no data to back up his assertion…" https://t.co/ShhyMlv50H — Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 23, 2015 And this: Mr. Comey’s remarks…
“Nothing is uglier than a crab cake sandwich under tungsten lighting”
The third of three little remembrances of my policing days. There’s been a lot of talk recently about a so-called “Ferguson Effect.” I don’t know. It’s certainly possible. Even probably, I would say. There’s always been disincentives in the police world to actually doing any work, especially from those who see police as a force for bad. But you can’t…
Good times…
Baltimore, December 9, 2000: We get a call for disorderly on Somethingleaf Court. Turns into an armed person. Housing won’t take it. Man is there as promised. We get there and I frisk him. [Officer C] has his gun out. No gun. The guy said he gave this woman $20 for “you know, whatever”. He said he has “relations” to…
Just another day in the Eastern…
Sometimes it’s fun to re-read my old field notes. I should write a book or something. This is from Jan 24, 2001 (and better than my average day’s notes): [Officer A] and I are walking our 4 miles at 5am: “People say this is a good neighborhood with a few bad people. But it’s not. I’d say that 50% are…
Me and Bill O’Reilly
If you missed it, here’s me on Bill O’Reilly’s show from back September 1, talking about the non-increase of cops being killed. And here’s me again on October 8th.
“The Stop”
Ashley Cleek’s piece on car stops in Life of the Law. Nice piece. And I’m quoted in it.
Who’s Counting?
Chava Gourarie at Columbia Journalism Review with a great piece on data and police-involved killings.
Officer Down
NYPD Housing Cop Randolph Holder was shot and killed a few hours ago around 120th and FDR Drive. This is about a mile from my house (but a world away in East Harlem). Rest in Peace. Update: Apparently the killer was also a “non-violent drug offender.” From the Times: Last fall, the man suspected in the shooting, Tyrone Howard, was…