Justin Fenton is a Baltimore Sun reporter and the author of “We Own This City,” about Baltimore’s Gun Trace Task Force. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/43939796 You can also watch this episode on youtube! (I’ve never been certain why people would want to, but knock yourself out.) Transcript: [00:00:04] Hello and welcome to Quality Policing. I am Peter…
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This was a busy couple of weeks – Nick mentioned the seeming high-volume blip in police officers killed and wounded this year, and Peter mentioned that this blip is statistically not extraordinary. Peter and Nick discuss fatalistic acceptance by younger officers of attacks on officers this year. Listen to “Episode 19: Cops Killed, New Technologies,…
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Peter’s been speaking with Nick for a while about interviewing a dispatcher, because, as he said, “I don’t think many people outside policing understand the relationship between dispatchers and the police.” Peter tells a pretty great story of a woman named Yolanda who worked at a local Dunkin’ Donuts in Baltimore. She was so remarkable…
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Peter and Nick are pleased to be joined by Gordon Graham, the co-founder of the law enforcement policy shop Lexipol. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/14160044 Gordon had a storied career in law enforcement, which he followed by starting up Lexipol and running Graham Research Consultants. He begins with the observation that police departments can reduce to zero their…
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The first Quality Policing Podcast of the new year is up. Peter and Nick begin in (where else?) Baltimore, discussing the trial of detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor, from the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force. The two are accused of a range of criminal activities, including robbing drug dealers, and carrying pellet…
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In November, 2017, Peter and Nick wrote this: In Baltimore, Officer Angel Villaronga shows how it can be done, by talking a man armed with a knife into handing over the bladed weapon and surrendering peacefully. Peter is happy some good news is coming from his former department, for a change. Peter and Nick talk about this…
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Peter Moskos discusses the November 15, 2017, killing of Baltimore City Police Detective Sean Suiter with Baltimore Sun reporter Justin Fenton. Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13433434 The dispatched audio of the immediate aftermath of the shooting. http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-suiter-dispatch-audio-20171122-story.html WBAL’s timeline is wrong regarding time of shooting of Det. Suiter. It did not take 30 minutes to get him to…
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A move is afoot to allow warning shots by police; a Baltimore officer doesn’t shoot and it works out; a Seattle officer does the same thing and…well… Episode: https://www.spreaker.com/episode/13383197 An article in USA Today discusses the nascent movement to consider allowing warning shots. Nick and Peter (sort of) disagree. In Baltimore, Officer Angel Villaronga shows…
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