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Here’s to Sgt Kelly and his good Times Square shooting! The man was carrying a card that said: “I feel sorry for a cop if he think I’m getting into his paddy wagon.”
Here’s to Sgt Kelly and his good Times Square shooting! The man was carrying a card that said: “I feel sorry for a cop if he think I’m getting into his paddy wagon.”
E.J. Dionne writes about an interesting poll of NRA members.
I’m all for regulation. But a ban on locations within 1,000 feet of a residence could be the same as a ban. We’ll see. The storyin the LA Times.
The BBChas the story.
Man wrestles gun from 19-year-old outside pub in Manchester. No doubt helped by a bit of Dutch courage.
It’s not unusually for to hear people lie in court. What is unusual is for somebody to be charged for it. Of course in this case it took an innocent man going to prison for a rape that wasn’t.
December 6, 1999, was my official D.O.E. in the Baltimore Police Department (even though I was already two-months into an academy class). Had I stayed on the job, I would now have ten years on, with ten more to go.
The problems with security that used biometric data (like fingerprints) are 1) we have too much faith in it, and 2) it doesn’t “fail” well. If you lose your driver’s license, you get a new one. What do you do if somebody steals your fingerprint? Here’s a case from Japan of fingerprint alteration.
Ward was killed 25 years ago. His assassination and last dying breaths were caught on tape and haunted the memory of many Baltimore police officers, some of whom I worked with. At a memorial, held where Ward was killed, Commissioner Bealefeld said that it is “not for us to judge the results of his sacrifice.”…
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“Party is over, guys….” Maybe it wasn’t such a good idea to invite the neighborhood drug dealers to your place to watch the game. The guests staying for three days, sold drugs out of his living room, and bound and tortured the guy by pouring boiling water and pennies over his naked body. Boiling pennies?!…
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