Bealefeld, Baltimore’s police commish, says: Those guys got fairly nominal sentences for some heinous stuff that they did to these kids, and if it happened in a white neighborhood in any other community in this state, we’d still be talking about it, and people would be talking about life sentences…. And these people get out…
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The story by Suzanne Smalley in Newsweek: A prison may not seem like the best place to raise infants. But researchers are finding that it’s better than the alternative. Joseph Carlson, a criminal-justice professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney who recently completed a 10-year study, says he thought such programs were “strange” when…
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New York City Police Department advises all Shield members regarding a military aircraft flyover that will occur on May 20, 2009 at 11:45 a.m. The flyover is part of the Fleet Week festivities and will include four military planes flying over New York City at a low altitude. At approximately 11:45 a.m., four F-18 Hornets…
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The Oakland police captain who runs the department’s SWAT unit has asked to be reassigned because of the team’s resentment over his decision to console the families of two officers slain by a parolee rather than lead what became an ill-fated raid for the killer. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Teen killed by dad was carrying his baby. The story in the NY Daily News.
Christine Hauser reportsin the New York Times that the NYPD made 171,094 stops in the first three months of 2009. Unlike many, I don’t think stop and frisks are inherently bad (not all that were stopped were frisked, though I’m sure many were). I’m willing to concede that aggressive stop and frisks most likely contributed…
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It sounds like a gun-lover’s crime-free dream world: an army of professional and well-trained armed men and women with extensive knowledge of firearms and firearm safety. Everybody has a gun. This will keep the crazy murders at bay! Then on a military base in Iraq, a soldier shot and killed five other soldiers. If an…
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If anybody wants to hear a civilized and somewhat intellectual discussion about gun control (outside of reading this blog, of course), check out my favorite radio show in the world: Extension 720. It’s broadcast on WGN, AM 720 in Chicago. I would love to be a guest on the show (if anybody has any connections,…
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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…
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Justin Fenton reportsin the Sun: A city police commander has been reinstated for active duty after being cleared of wrongdoing in a probe into text messages he exchanged with a community activist who was being sought on a warrant and later allegedly stabbed his wife to death. … The Police Department intends to address “procedural…
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