…enters it’s second week. From the S.F. Weekly: Activists and inmates say the strike is meant to call attention to inhumane conditions in Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit (SHU), where dangerous prisoners are lodged in small, windowless cells, often without access to other people or open space for extended periods. Critics of the SHU say…
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Those Mexican drug kingpins are dropping like flies. By my count thismakes eight! Let me know when the violence stops.
Gregory Hladky of the Hartford Advocate writes one of the better pieces on In Defense of Flogging (not that I like to pick favorites, because like the children I don’t have, I love them all). But this one ismore interesting than many.
Play with these census data. In the past, to gather data like this (change in neighborhood population and demographics over 10 years) used to be so much work and take so long. From 1990 to 2000, the Eastern District lost about 30% of its population. (In 2002 it took me days of work to figure…
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I’m off to New Mexico for a few days. Don’t expect much action here till next weekend. Happy 4th! Don’t forget to read the Declaration of Independence.
The good people at Basic Books have been kind (or clever) enough to put the first part of In Defense of Floggingup on the book’s website… For free! “Free,” you ask, “why would they do that?” Duh… So you love the start, get the cliffhanging end, and buy the book! Download the pdf file. Link…
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I still find it a bit shocking that cities big and small are laying-off police officers. The latest is San Jose, which laid-off 66 police officers with the least seniority: In addition to the cops let go, the city cut nearly 100 police positions left vacant by recent retirements and departures The police force shrunk…
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My article is in the July issue of Reason is available online: When I was a police officer in Baltimore, one sergeant would sometimes motivate his troops in the middle of a shift change by joyfully shouting, “All right, you maggots! Let’s lock people up! They don’t pay you to stand around. I want production!…
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This is noteworthy in its rarity. Keep in mind that New York is one of the few states that has de-carcertaed over that past decades (and no, crime has not gone up). Notice too how most of the article is about jobs and the economy, not crime. Notably, Mr. Cuomo spared several large prisons in…
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Me. At 2:45pm Eastern Time. Stream Team with Fredricka Whitfield. A mega 5-minute segment.