From the Times: New York authorities are investigating a manhole fire that startled passers-by just a few blocks from where a Times Square car bomb failed to detonate over the weekend. A spokesman for the Con Edison utility says smoking underground electrical cables caused the fire Monday afternoon.
Kudos to the NYPD and the bomb squad for doing their job well. That work is no joke. In her wonderful The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs wrote, “It does not take many incidents of violence to make people fear the streets. And as they fear them, they use them less,…
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It’s not too late to read my book. Don’t take my word for it. Take Sean O’Donnell’s of the Baltimore Republican Examiner: For anyone interested is what being a police officer in Baltimore City is really like, Peter Moskos’ in-depth, academic, and realist account inCop in the Hood is a must-read…. Whether one agrees or…
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Not the government wants you to know. Immediately after Calderon came to office in late 2006, he deployed up to 50,000 troops in a frontal battle with narcotics cartels, a move that drew widespread praise for its courage. More than three years later, the pace of killings is soaring and public security worries are beginning…
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This is the guy who pushed over the bicyclist in Times Square. Pogan was convicted of filing false statements (saying that he was assaulted by the victim). Pogan was also convicted of a misdemeanor for attesting to the complaint’s truthfulness. Patrick Pogan, who was only on the job for 11 days, was acquitted on assault…
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This just in. Only one-fifth of those arrested are natives of the United States. Four-fifth are foreign-born immigrants. According to the New York Times: Emigration has thrown upon our shores many vicious characters, and a still larger number of needy and ignorant persons, who, under the influence of over ten thousand [drug dealers] become recruits…
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I thought I’d just let all you anti-American city-living immigrant-loving pro-crime socialist fascists communists know what Real Americans are thinking. This is an email being forwarded around conservative circles. (For some reason I can’t figure out, and you can’t see it here, conservative-leaning email tends to use a VERY large font and is often in…
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After yet another of my facebook friends posted this, I thought I’d just let all you Real Americans know what we anti-American city-living immigrant-loving pro-crime socialist fascists communists are up to. (But please don’t tell The Party that I’m the one that let the cat out of the bag or else Obama’s minions will send…
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And Mexico is no exception.
“If immigrants suddenly disappeared and the country became immigrant-free (and illegal-immigrant free), crime rates would likely increase.” From “How Immigration Crackdowns Backfire” by Steve Chapman in Reason.com“ That’s not to say Arizonans don’t have a right to be upset when Mexicans trespass across private land on a regular basis. But you could solve that problem…
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