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  • Baltimore City’s curfew center

    To round up wandering kids in an effort to combat mobs of roving teens. From the Sun:

    Baltimore’s curfew center began four years ago — a collaborative effort among police, the school system and social services — to get kids off the street and away from potential harm.

    Their work has taken on a new urgency as other cities grapple with so-called “flash robs,” most notably Philadelphia, which moved up its curfew to 9 p.m. in hopes of combating large, roving groups of young people who caused mayhem there.

    Now if only there were a center to pick up mobs of roaming parents.

  • NM officer having sex on car hood won’t be charged

    I just like the headline. And no, sex is not a crime… even on duty (though it should be an admin issue).

    Update:He got fired.

  • Little Hurricane Crime in New York City

    The mayor says there were 45 arrests in New York City last night compared to 345 arrests on a normal August Saturday night. Mayor Bloomberg said, “If that doesn’t tell you about New Yorkers, I don’t know what does.” That’s sweet. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s good there wasn’t massive looting, and New York is a pretty great place. But I’d bet that the low arrest total says a lot more about bad weather in general and in particular police being told not to arrest people unless absolutely necessary (to keep officers on the street).

  • The problem that isn’t (that big)

    Ronald Weitzer tries to dispel the myths of human trafficking.

  • Flash Mob Taos style, 1884

    From the New York Times:

    “The Feast of San Jeronimo: How it is observed by the Indians of Taos (from the Denver Tribune)

    After the racing was over a gang of reckless fellows strolled around the plaza with apparently perfect license to do as they pleased. They walked along paying, seemingly, no attention to the hucksters who exhibited their wares upon the plaza, but suddenly they would turn upon some unfortunate huckster, and a few moments utterly waste and upset his entire store. This was the signal for a general desertion of the plaza by the hucksters, so far as they could do so without first being caught.

    The whole story is worth a read. Poor sheep.

  • Flash Mob steals from 7-11

    In Germantown, Montgomery County, Maryland.

    Anybody got any ideas how to prevent this?

    Is it possible to lock everybody insidethe store? Certainly if catch one of the kids, it would be pretty easy to get them to snitch. But then what? It would take a lot of police work simply to bring shoplifing charges against a lot of kids.

  • Man Robs Bank of $1 and Waits for Police…

    In an attempt to get health care. What a country!

    I am curious to see how this will play out. He probably won’t be sentenced to the three years he wants. Will he then commit more crime?

    And he might disappointed about the quality of health care in prison. But it is better than nothing.

  • Whitey Bulger nabbed!

    How about that? Maybe that guy in 1996 at the Abbey Lounge in Somerville wasn’t him after all.

    The Timesarticle leaves out the details regarding his relationship with his younger brother, who was a long time state representative and then President of of the University of Massachusetts.

    If my older brother was on the lam, I wouldn’t rat him out, either.

    And note this from the LA Times:

    Using a “ruse,” authorities lured the man out of the apartment, concluded it was Bulger and arrested him without incident. They arrested Greig inside the home. They provided no details about the ruse.

    Gosh, a “ruse”! What a novelway to apprehend a criminal suspect.

    I’m guessing it went something like this, “Hello… UPS… What?… No, I need your signature.”

    “Arrested without incident”? Whatever. Seems like they wasted a good opportunity to suit up, bust down some doors, and send in a SWAT team for no good reason.

    [p.s.: He lived a block or two from my mom in Santa Monica!]

  • Canadian Riots

    Canadian Riots

    Americans riot when their team wins. Canadians riot when they lose.

    There’s video of two police cars being torched in Vancouver.


    There was some pretty hard-core looting and dozens of injuries. But even their riots seem relatively polite. Apparently, nobody was shot. From the Vancouver Province:

    Just after 11 p.m., in the aftermath of violence, the street was a deserted war zone. Very few businesses were left unscathed and sidewalks were littered with shattered glass.

    One shoe store had virtually no merchandise left, while the London Drugs on Georgia and Granville, where alarms still blared, had its doors smashed in, and coat hangers and shoes strewn outside.

    Unruly, booze-fuelled mobs also broke into Sears at Robson and Howe. One looter managed to break into Chapters bookstore, but apparently no one bothered entering.

    Looters have never been known for their discerning literary tastes.

    Police, of course, are damned if they do and damned if they don’t. The Boston Herald reports: “While some members of the crowd expressed dismay that the police didn’t take a more aggressive approach to the early vandalism, others said officers were heavy-handed.”

  • “How do you know it’s mine?”

    This must have been one of the easiest suspect-IDs in world history: Bangladeshi woman cuts off rapist’s penis and gives it to police.