I like his Moxie. Seriously: “If he were a white kid from an upper middle class family he would have gotten a lawyer and some counseling,” Huckabee said. “But because he was a young black kid he got 108 years.” Huckabee said the sentence was “far disproportionate from any other punishment in Arkansas at the…
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Good shooting. Good riddance. Former Seattle Police Chief Norm Stamper has a good analysis: Clemmons, nursing a two-day old bullet wound to the stomach, having killed four cops already and facing at least life in prison, frantically searching for a way out of the state if not the country, and packing one of the dead…
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She was acquitted of more serious charges. The jury deliberated 7 days. A bunch of stories in the Sun.
Seems like everybody in the NYPD is doing it. And so what? The whole concept is strange to this former Baltimore police officer. So is the language. I had three real badges when I was cop. They give you one, for your shirt or jacket. You need to pay for others. One other you need,…
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And it’s the fault of the Republicans! Imagine the conservative anger if Maurice Clemmons–armed robber, child rapist, messianic apocalypse believer, bad neighbor, and now cop killer–had been been granted clemency by some Democraticgovernor! Some criminal-loving cop-hating commie Democrat politician. Maybe with proper mental health care this never would have happened. Clemmons is clearly a guy…
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Or so says the Washington Post. “Seriously,” said Bruce Merkin, communications director for the Marijuana Policy Project, an advocacy group based in the District, “there is a reason you don’t have Mexican beer cartels planting fields of hops in the California forests.”
Holy Sh*t! Talk about an unwelcome back to the ol’ US of A. Guns, folks. Guns matter. I wonder if four police officers have ever been shot and killed in England. Ever. There was one police funeral in England when I was there, just two days ago. An officer who was killed when a flood-weakened…
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The Christmas crime season is the US begins. This storyfrom the NY Daily News. [November 30 Update] And the Chicago Sun Times. Street crime really does up before Christmas. Keep that in mind. I’m in a pub in York, UK, right now. Leeds, where I’m staying, and where David Simon said he might have set…
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Happy Thanksgiving. No holiday here in England. I’m here in Leeds for a conference on The Wire. Good stuff. I gave a speech this morning. Now it’s the evening and I’m hankering for a pint.
…doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you. The FBI spent 45 years keeping files on Chicago writer and journalist Studs Terkel. And to think this agent provocateur went unwatched for the last 18 years of his life!