I’ll smoke to that
I just got this gem of a line from a police officer who just turned in his retirement papers: “This job is like cigarettes–hazardous to your health, addictive, and occasionally strangely satisfying.”
I’ll smoke to that
Recent Posts
- On ICE’s bad policing in Minneapolis
- A look back on the Washington Post database of people shot and killed by police
- QPP 64: Peter Moskos and Leon Taylor discuss ICE
- Murders down in 2025! Celebrate. It’s hard work, not a “trend”
- Trends in Fatal vs Non-Fatal Shootings
- QPP 63: Tony Barksdale
- QPP 62: Bail Reform
- Same city, different prosecutors, different outcomes
- Broken Windows policing: what it is and what it is not
- QPP 61: Jeffery Glover and Renée Hall, NOBLE
- QPP 60: Whitney Tilson
- Barnes v. Felix and the “moment of threat”
- QPP 59: Back from the Brink, John Laffey
- QPP 58: Neil Gong
- Lowest NYPD headcount… ever?
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