Does anybody believe this is a good idea for subway patrol? Granted with only 13 the NYPD isn’t making a major investment, but it’s still a big waste. “Their biggest benefit is increased police visibility, as they put an officer heads and shoulders above the crowds, police said” in the Daily News. What? Actually, no. It puts police about six…
I read this book by Jennifer Hunt. I loved this book. I’ll tell you more about this book… but only when I’m done writing mybook. On July 31, 1997, a six-man Emergency Service team from the NYPD raided a terrorist cell in Brooklyn and narrowly prevented a suicide bombing of the New York subway that would have cost hundreds, possibly…
This is the guy shot 20 times by the police. One week later, he’s out of the hospital. How is that possible!? From the Times: The police have arrested Mr. Alvarez on charges of attempted murder, attempted assault in the first degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree and criminal use of a firearm in the second…
It’s yesterday’s news that Adrian Schoolcraft is suing New York and the NYPD for $50 million. It turns out, amazingly, that this isn’t the first Schoolcraft vs. P.D. lawsuit. No, it’s not the first. It’s not even the second. Turns out that Adrian’s father, Larry Schoolcraft, was also a police officer. In Fort Worth, Texas, I believe (though the Village…
…It is gone! Al Baker clears the bases and the New York Timesis back on top! Al Baker is a man I don’t know. Never met him. Never spoken to him (at least I don’t think I have). But I know his name because the man is good reporter on the police beat for the New York Times. When I…
Most cops hate the newspaper. I don’t. But that’s probably because growing up, there was more newspaper blood in my family than police blood. And a healthy freedom of the press is one of the founding principles of this nation. And just think for just a few bits every day, comics, sports, news, opinion, it’s all dropped off on my…
Don’t hold your breath waiting for this to sort itself out. Here’s what I’ve already said on this one. [Update: A link to the lawsuit.] (Update with working links to all the posts on Schoolcraft.)
Nada. Nichts. Zilch. Niks. Τίποτα! That’s what the lying Mineo gets for his $440 million B.S. lawsuit against the NYPD. Even better, he’s got to pay court fees. The jury was deadlocked (11-1, against Kern) on whether Officer Kern brutalized Mineo with a baton. From the Daily News: Jurors did find Kern liable for malicious prosecution for giving Mineo a…
It’s not easy to separate emotion from constitutional issues. Ronell Wilson killed two NYPD detectives in 2003 and was found guilty and sentence to death by a federal jury. Good. Now, in 2010, an appeals court struck down the sentence (but not the conviction… the bastard did it). It’s easy for cops and conservatives to bitch about “liberal” courts letting…
Heather MacDonald has an op-ed in the New York Times. You know, on police issues we probably agree 75-80% of the time. And yet I’m always left frustrated and strangely disappointed by her writings. She’s too predictable. And her writing lacks depth as she simply sidesteps the main points of the opposition. I generally agreewith her, and yet still find…