Stilgar, in a comment, raises some excellent questions: Claims about the quality of pay are irrelevant without context. Rather than shout past each other, it might be worthwhile to ask: 1. Based on the backgrounds of the cops you have worked with, would you say that many of them were well-paid in policing compared to…
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It includes 5 days of furlough and 2 more days of paid vacation. I would have liked that. I suspect most police do not. Comp time (at 1.5 : 1) instead ofovertime for court? The number of arrests will plummet! Given that most police want to work more hours, not fewer, and this contract is…
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Also good police work.
Here’s to Sgt Kelly and his good Times Square shooting! The man was carrying a card that said: “I feel sorry for a cop if he think I’m getting into his paddy wagon.”
E.J. Dionne writes about an interesting poll of NRA members.
I’m all for regulation. But a ban on locations within 1,000 feet of a residence could be the same as a ban. We’ll see. The storyin the LA Times.
The BBChas the story.
Man wrestles gun from 19-year-old outside pub in Manchester. No doubt helped by a bit of Dutch courage.
It’s not unusually for to hear people lie in court. What is unusual is for somebody to be charged for it. Of course in this case it took an innocent man going to prison for a rape that wasn’t.
December 6, 1999, was my official D.O.E. in the Baltimore Police Department (even though I was already two-months into an academy class). Had I stayed on the job, I would now have ten years on, with ten more to go.