I may be mistaken, but what is going on in Portland sounds like a very good idea to me. Give cops four weeks of training: defensive tactics, firearms and the law. Then let them ride with FTOs. And then when the academy class begins, they join the class. Remember, it’s not like a class is starting every week or even…
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Boston Dispands Mounted Police
The nation’s oldest (1870) mounted unit was disbanded in Boston this month. I know police on horses are of limited use, but what they dodo cannot be done by other police. It’s just eleven horses and about the same number of officers. Seems like a bad way to save money. How about shutting down a few patrol cars instead? The…
The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs
Friday, May 22, 2009. 7pm to 8:45pm. Robert Wallace, co-author of Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs from Communism to al-Qaeda, will be speaking at the City University of New York Graduate Center. It should be interesting. I hear Bob is a great public speaker and the topic is naturally interesting. It’s free and open to the public.…
$100 for taking out the trash
I got fined $100 for putting my trash out too early. And not all the trash. Just the recyclable cans and bottles. I thought I was doing the can-pickers a favor by giving them a few more hours of daylight to pick out can and bottles for the 5-cent deposit. I got the ticket at 3:30pm. They shouldn’t go out…
At the ballpark…
I’m out traveling and speaking during my Spring Break. Right now I’m in Chicago, seeing as many Cubs games as I can. (Greek) Easter Sunday, I will be a roasting a lamb with my cousins. Then back to NYC. Updates will be few and far between till then. [And if you’ve ever wondered why the Greeks often celebrate Easter later…
Unrelated
I don’t know what made me think of this website just now. I first saw it years ago and it just crossed my mind for some reason. It has nothing to do with police or Baltimore. This woman rode around the abandoned Chernobyl area with nothing but a motorcycle [Ed note: kind of sort of. See comments below], a camera,…
Strip Searches in Central Booking
These stories happen every now and then. “Respectable” person gets arrested and is shocked (shocked!) that they’re strip searched in jail. Did you not know that people get strip searched after being arrested? Well they do. Now you know. If the idea that other people get strip searched doesn’t bother you today, right now, while you’re reading this, please don’t…
More on the 14-year-old cop impersonator
In the Chicago Tribune.