I got a call from Laura Vozzella of the Baltimore Sunthe other day. I thought maybe she was a reviewer asking about a press release from Princeton Press telling reviewers to hold off until the new edition is out. But I got worried when I started talking about the errors and heard the tapity-tap-type of…
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Don’t take heroin, it’s an ugly drug.
If Amazon isn’t accepting orders for my book right now, how is my Amazon sales rank going up?
“Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey has reassigned the 135-officer Narcotics Strike Force to more general crime-fighting duties.” This from Andrew Maykuth and Barbara Boyer’s article in the Philadelphia Inquirer. I’m all for it. The Commissioner called the department “overspecialized.” Right on! “It may be disappointing to you,” he said. “A lot of people thought my…
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If you’re stinky, please take a bath.
I was on National Public Radio’s “On Point” today. You can listen to it here. It’s a quick hour.
Pulled from the shelves! Indeed, if you don’t already have a copy of Cop in the Hood, odds are you’re not getting one for a couple of weeks. No, I didn’t fake the whole thing. No, the book isn’t a safety hazard. No, there’s nothing substantively wrong with the book. But the book is an…
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These kind of headlines, this one from the BBC, always crack me up… and make me sad. Why? Do you feel safer? This guy’s death won’t mean shit. Some other drug lord will take his place. I nominate his second-in-command. I mean, really… Does anybody think that killing some bad guy is going to win…
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For those interested in an honest police perspective on shooting (and not shooting) people, I recommend Into the Kill Zone: A Cop’s Eye View of Deadly Force by professor and former police officer David Klinger. It’s a lot of 1st-hand accounts of deadly force incidents. And it’s good stuff. You can read an excerpt here.
You can listen to my appearance on the Talk of the Nation radio broadcast.