The Wall Street Journal reports: New York City police fired fewer bullets at suspects last year than any time since the department first began keeping in-depth shooting statistics 39 years ago … In 2008, the department was also involved in 105 shooting incidents, with the 125 officers firing a total of 364 bullets. No city…
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I would love it if we could distinguish between quotas and what happened to Adrian Schoolcraft. Just because the NYPD has (as Schoolcraft says) quotas (or at least something that line officers feel are quotas) does not grant legitimacy to Schoolcraft’s media-hungry self-serving whining about how he was treated by the NYPD. There is a…
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Because the Chicago Police Department isn’t providing cash payments to settle out of court. Once that incentive goes away…
Frank Zimring has always been one of the better criminologists out there. This nine minute video from the Vera Institute of Justice hows some of the reasons why.
Of course that’s meant to be a sensational headline… but it’s actually true. And God only knows how the DEA would flip the tables if some anti-drug-war group was guilty of the same thing. According to the Times: [The DEA] sent David C. Headley, a small-time drug dealer and sometime informant, to work for them…
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The suspect is an armed and crazy and racist murderer. He’s killed before. He has multiple weapons. After a tip-off you get a warrant for his arrest. You know where he lives. A surveillance unit outside confirm his presence. Plan B is to send in the SWAT team and bust down the door in a…
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From my favorite comic strip, Stephan Patsis’s Pearls before Swine:
A SWAT team busted up a poker game of seniors. One cop and one gambler were shot. This is not what SWAT teams are for. Actually, unfortunately, it is what SWAT teams are for. So let me rephrase: this is not what SWAT teams shouldbe for. The shot 72-year old reportedly said, “Why didn’t you…
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“…marijuana use is associated with voluntary treatment admissions for addiction, fatal drugged driving accidents, mental illness and emergency room admissions.” So says Drug Czar Gil Kerlikowske. Come to think of it, so is life. There’s more on Pete Guither’s blog. Regardless, thanks God we’re still safe from this reefer madness. I don’t think marijuana makes…
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