The chase was well called out by the pursuing officer, I have to say. The shooting, in my humble opinion, justified. It’s too bad police had to down two police cars because of this idiot. Should the police have chased? No. They rarely should. And particularly not when you know the identity of the suspect and where he lives! (And…
Right Wing Lies (IX)
Turns out Obama was a cross-dressing teenager who turned gay tricks for coke! This one must be true. Why? Because I read it on the interwebs! Man, I wasted far too much time today responding to comments from people who still comment about what a shame it is that the government provided “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to a murdered…
Shira Scheindlin Stop & Frisk Smackdown
I’m in beautiful Sydney. Spring is in the air and the birds make funny sounds just to remind me that I’m on the other side of the planet. Despite my focus on the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, I couldn’t help but notice that everything Judge Scheindlin decided regarding stop and frisk has been put on hold! The New York Times…
Terry v. Ohio. Happy 50th Anniverary, Detective McFadden!
Fifty years ago today on the streets of downtown Cleveland, Detective Martin McFadden, plain-clothed and without a walkie-talkie (two-way radios didn’t become standard for another decade) stopped and arrested John Terry and two other guys after observing them casing a storefront for United Airlines. This arrest lead to the landmark 1968 Supreme Court Case of Terry v. Ohio (the two…
Fewer Officers Killed, Assaulted On Duty Last Year
Usually you only hear about this when the deaths goes up.
Waltzing Matilda
Should you just happen to be in Sydney next week, wonder over to the Opera House and check out the Festival of Dangerous Ideas. I’ll be there, spreading dangerous thoughts about flogging and the war on drugs. Did I mention they’re flying me over there all fancy? Like in business class? Classy, those Aussies are! It should be a blast.
And no thanks to the PBA
The PBAis the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association. One of the two police unions (I was FOP, which for some reason I still think is slightly better in actually caring about public safety). A representative of the PBA recently came to roll calls in New York City and told police officers to stop stopping anybody. If crime does go up, don’t expect…
Why Energy Boomtowns Are a Nightmare for Law Enforcement
By Mike Riggs in Atlantic Cities.
The Intellegence of the NYPD’s Demographics Unit
I am a day late and a dollar short on this, because these AP reportson the NYPD Intelligence Division “Demographics Unit” came out in 2011 and 2012 (mostly when I was out of the country). The reports are from 2006, but only now am I fully appreciating them. Here’s New York Magazine’s more recent take on the whole operation. Of…
Baby Hope
Good work by the NYPD: October 14th, 2013 BY ORDER OF THE CHIEF OF DEPARTMENT, THE FOLLOWING IS TO BE READ AT ROLL CALL TO ALL MEMBERS OF THE SERVICE AND POSTED CONSPICUOUSLY WITHIN COMMANDS: On July 23rd, 1991, twenty-two years ago, the body of a four-year-old girl was found in a cooler off the Henry Hudson Parkway. She had…