Detective Suiter’s funeral was today. I was fine. Until I clicked on this audio. RIP Detective Suiter. EOW 11/16/17 pic.twitter.com/U1rXU6C788 — BmoreBreakingNews (@BaltimoreBNN) November 29, 2017 At least in New York City it’s OK to cry in public. An NYPD friend just told me they don’t have do this in New York. It’s a BPD…
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Peter Moskos discusses the November 15, 2017, killing of Baltimore City Police Detective Sean Suiter with Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13433434 The dispatched audio of the immediate aftermath of the shooting. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-suiter-dispatch-audio-20171122-story.html WBAL’s timeline is wrong regarding time of shooting of Det. Suiter. It did not take 30 minutes to get him to…
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This is a four-part Extra from Nick Selby, taking a closer look at how Body Worn Cameras have changed policing. We’re dropping all four episodes simultaneously, so you can binge-listen. We’ve also made the whole thing available as a single podcast, for those who don’t want to futz around with individual episodes. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383193 That…
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The saga is finally nearly over for the officers involved in the 2015 arrest and deadly transport of Freddie Gray. Today Lt. Brian Rice, the highest ranking officer on scene was cleared of all administrative chargesin relation to the case. Last week Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. was acquitted of all 21 administrative charges. Two other…
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Baltimore City Detective Sean Suiter was shot and killed two days ago while doing his job. I didn’t know Sean, but he also came up in 1999. He had 18 years on. Were I still a Baltimore Police Officer, that could be me. His killer has not been arrested. After his shooting I glued online…
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Mass Shootings are up, no matter how you count them – new data from Mother Jones and Fivethirtyeight. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383187 Our friends at 538 have been writing about mass shootings and it appears that they are up across the board. Peter blames Nick for this phenomenon.
Bike path terror in New York City. In what ways was it a failure? Peter and Nick count them. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383186 Peter and Nick discuss the terror attack in New York City; the fact that, had the terrorist not just killed people with a car, activists would have yelled that the cops shot a man…
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A move is afoot to allow warning shots by police; a Baltimore officer doesn’t shoot and it works out; a Seattle officer does the same thing and…well… Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383197 An article in USA Today discusses the nascent movement to consider allowing warning shots. Nick and Peter (sort of) disagree. In Baltimore, Officer Angel Villaronga shows…
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! Ten years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the…
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UK Police have released their first-ever report on the Use of Force in Britain. The data don’t support any rational conclusions… Audio: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383195 In 2017, of 911 calls to Minneapolis Police on domestic abuse in progress in which force was used, 57 suspects (63%) were black. Blacks are 6.2% of Minneapolis residents. That’s not police…
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