Over on our Quality Policing podcast, Nick Selby and I hit the road and interview Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder Nassau County, if you don’t know, is the closer of two counties on Long Island outside of New York City. It’s largely a low-crime suburban community but has been in the news lately because…
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Well done, Officer Rogers! “An officer was actually on this block on another call and actually heard the shots being fired, said T.J. Smith, Baltimore City Police Spokesman. “That officer gave pursuit.” How often does that happen? And what exactly happened? An edited and shortened version of the bodycam footage had been acquired by WMAR,…
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Chuck Wexler is Executive Director of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), an organization of law enforcement officials dedicated to improving the professionalism of policing. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/14330461 An impressive number of police chiefs have been associated with PERF, including Bill Bratton, Edward Flynn, Charles Ramsey, Cathy Lanier, John Timoney, Brandon del Pozo, and James O’Neill.…
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80 days around the world, we’ll find a pot of gold just sitting where the rainbow’s ending. Time – we’ll fight against the time, and we’ll fly on the white wings of the wind. 80 days around the world, no we won’t say a word before the ship is really back. Round, round, all around…
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Yesterday the verdict came out. I wrote this op-ed for the Washington Post: This current scandal is more than a case of a few bad apples, though bad apples they were. These officers acted with impunity until the FBI caught wind of their actions through an unrelated criminal investigation in Pennsylvania. A specialized police unit…
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The first Quality Policing Podcast of the new year is up. Peter and Nick begin in (where else?) Baltimore, discussing the trial of detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor, from the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force. The two are accused of a range of criminal activities, including robbing drug dealers, and carrying pellet…
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Justin Fenton of the Baltimore Sun has tweeted a crazy accountof testimony in today’s trial of corrupt Baltimore cops. Crazy testimony in federal court just now by former Detective Maurice Ward, outlining illegal tactics used by Gun Trace Task Force Officers … They’d regularly drive fast at a larger group of people, slam brakes and…
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Nick Selby and I talk about all this and more on our latest Quality Policing Podcast. Here’s the bad shooting we discuss. It’s not much in the news because there’s no racial angle to it. The officer was criminally charged today. I would say this might be third worst shooting of all time (Walter Scott…
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On K-9s biting and other dog news (0:40). (9:00) Cops in Oklahoma City come across a suicidal man and kill him. (16:00) Good data on use of force from Minneapolis. (21:30) Undercover cops in the Detroit fight each other. (23:20) Bridgeport PD can’t use the word police. (27:00) Update on Suiter investigation, or lack thereof.…
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The UCR publishes less data. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43955539