Turns out I dohave a few thoughts about police and Occupy Wall Street. Read all about it on Slate.com: If cops could wave a magic wand, the protesters would simply go away. But if cops could wave a magic wand, the whole damned city would probably disappear. Police relate to the demoralized employees in the film Clerks: “This job would…
Tag: police culture
Cop Think
A pretty fabulous op-ed from a retired NYPD Captain on ticket fixing and police culture. Like any other profession, police work is subject to evolution. This situation is just the latest in a never-ending world of transition. I accept that. But let’s not pretend we’ve suddenly discovered some major moral rot deep in the heart of the NYPD. Fact is,…
RIP Officer Henwood
Oh, jeeze, I wish it didn’t have to end this way. San Diego Police Officer Jeremy Henwood’s last act before being ambushed and killed by a suicidal gunman was to buy a 13-year-old boy cookies. For real.
Don’t bash the ‘stache
It’s weird there is such a thing as a “cop mustache.” Most cops don’t have them. But some do. From 10-66, Unusual Incident.
I’ll smoke to that
I just got this gem of a line from a police officer who just turned in his retirement papers: “This job is like cigarettes–hazardous to your health, addictive, and occasionally strangely satisfying.”
Probation for Baltimore Officers
These were the two officers who stranded two 15-year-olds far from their home. They were not the first officers to do this. They may be the last. (My earlier post.) From the Sun: [Judge] Doory said the fact that Johnson was left in Howard County without shoes “stood like a monument” in the middle of the case and remained inadequately…
“I swear to uphold…”
When I was a cop, I rather enjoyed swearing to uphold the constitutions of the United States and Maryland. It seemed like quite an honor. (Even if the actually oath was done very matter-of-factly in some cubical by a woman who didn’t seem to care. And honestly, I’ve never read the Maryland Constitution.) Oath Keepers is an organization set up…
Were those the days?
It what might be end of a long (and glorious?) Baltimore police tradition, two officers were convicted of misdemeanor for picking up two 15-year-old boys and dropping them off far from home, one of them barefoot. The officers were acquitted of far more serious kidnapping charges. These officers were certain not the first police officers to pick up trouble-making youths,…
Faith and the Badge
NYPD Sergeant (and Cop in the Hood fan) Martin Browne is interviewed about being Catholic and being a cop. It’s a good interview.
Riot Police Drinking on the Job…
…isn’t such a big deal in France. Or maybe now it is. Either way, seems like the French attitude (the Italians do pretty much the same) is much healthier than our own American attitude toward alcohol.