The mayor says there were 45 arrests in New York City last night compared to 345 arrests on a normal August Saturday night. Mayor Bloomberg said, “If that doesn’t tell you about New Yorkers, I don’t know what does.” That’s sweet. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s good there wasn’t massive looting, and New York…
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Rarely to get exciting reading articles in academic journals (whether that says bad thing about me or the journals I leave to you), but this is exciting: “The Philadelphia Foot Patrol Experiment: A Randomized Controlled Trial Of Police Patrol Effectiveness In Violent Crime Hotspots.” It’s in the current issue of Criminology (like most academic journals,…
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I love that on our block, storm preparations included harvesting all grapes, pears, and figs–and distributing the extras to us! The dark grapes are ours (they’re tastier than our neighbors–not that it is a competition, of course). But we don’t have any figs, and these figs are some of the best I’ve ever had! Thank…
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“This is New York, we don’t have that sort of thing.”
Interesting I haven’t heard any fear of civil disorder after the storm hits NYC. I hope that’s just a sign of how things are not. I went back and read 1938 New York Timesaccounts of the hurricane that slammed New York. It was pretty devastating. And at least two people were arrested for robbing 20…
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Ronald Weitzer tries to dispel the myths of human trafficking.
If we were all rich enough to have our own private police force that did whatever we want? Police have better things to do that act as private security for rich corporations. I wonder how much Coach and Rolex (and other big-name products) have to “donate” to New York’s elected officials and police leaders to…
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My modem got fried by lighting during an amazing storm Friday night (deep down, I really didn’t think this kind of thing could happen). Until a new modem arrives… life is very strange and definitely unsettled. It’s shocking how much of my day is internet related… from the obvious like email to the less obvious…
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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.
From the New York Times: “The Feast of San Jeronimo: How it is observed by the Indians of Taos (from the Denver Tribune) After the racing was over a gang of reckless fellows strolled around the plaza with apparently perfect license to do as they pleased. They walked along paying, seemingly, no attention to the…
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