Just a week or two after Jon Lee Anderson’s excellent article in the New Yorker on drugs and favelasin Rio de Janeiro, drug gangs shoot down a police helicopter. That’s hard core. I mean, I’ve thought about shooting down police helicopters, but luckily I lack the .30-caliber anti-aircraft gun used to bring that baby down.…
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…and stoners. The Feds say they’ll lay off medicinal marijuana enforcement in states where it’s legal. This seems like a no-brainer.
I’ve got nothing against US Marshals. Or maybe I do. I just got off a flight from San Francisco to New York on my favorite airline. Why do I like Jet Blue? Because they have TV. I love TV. And Satellite TV turns a 6-hour flight into a dream. I mean, I love being in…
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In Newsweek.
I just heard on the radio that Nigeria has changed its law that required a police report from the victims of gunshot injuries before these same victims could be treated for their wounds in a hospital. Apparently one of the factors leading to this change was a high level of gun deaths. Imagine that.
Radley Balko writes in Reasonabout P.G. County Sheriff Michael Jackson. He’s the guy who, among other things, led and defended the police actions in the set up and raid of Mayor Calvo.
Discretion is good. In schools. In society. And in policing. Here’s an example of why it doesn’t work so well in school. The law was introduced after a third-grade girl was expelled for a year because her grandmother had sent a birthday cake to school, along with a knife to cut it. The teacher called…
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Just so you don’t get to thinking that cities and ghettos have a lock on stupid senseless crimes. “The seeming senselessness of the killing of Kimberly Cates – hacked to death in her bed last week in Mont Vernon, N.H., allegedly by teenagers who chose her at random and didn’t know who she was.” The…
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That seemed to be the recipe. The story by Patrice O’Shaughnessy in the NY Daily News.
Should an 87-year-old go to prison? John Eligon and Benjamin Weiser write about this in the New York Times. I don’t think so. What good does it serve? Punishment, of course. But aren’t there better and cheaper ways to punish? I certainly don’t want to pay to keep people who are no threat to me…
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