Good shooting
Officer with good aim, lucky to be alive.
Officer with good aim, lucky to be alive.
I try and face most issues objectively. But not this one. I am pro-immigrant. My mom is an immigrant (from Germany) and my father’s parents were immigrants (Greeks from the Ottoman Empire on an Italian passport from what is now Albania). New York was founded on illegal immigrants (hell, America was founded on illegal immigrants).…
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Or in this case Coca Colla.
The Baltimore Sun has a video. It’s always a bit sad to see people cheer the destruction of a city block. Of course this block was already destroyed. Now it’s just a matter of tearing down empty shells of brick. Everything of value has been stripped. Now it’s just a place for trash, wild animals,…
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The career of Gates should not be celebrated. My sincere condolences to his family and those who loved him. Seriously. But LA Police Chief Daryl Gates didn’t like to give breaks to other people. So why should I give him one? Gates is still popular among conservative law-and-order types. Drugs on a block? Send in…
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Forgive me if I don’t send flowers to his funeral. What an SOB.
A study by Daryl Fischer shows that 94 percent of Arizona state inmates are repeat or violent offenders. That “or” is important. “The myth that we’re filling our prisons with first-time drug offenders is not true.” Well sort of. It is generally true (with some notable exceptions) that people don’t do prison time for non-violent…
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Last week the BPD announced that they were suspending comstat. I’m not certain if that’s cutting edge or retro. Perhaps it’s time to suspend compstat here in NYC. I don’t think anybody wants a police department that doesn’t hold commanders accountable and use the timely analysis of crime data, but (and this is putting it…
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