The good people at Basic Books have been kind (or clever) enough to put the first part of In Defense of Floggingup on the book’s website… For free! “Free,” you ask, “why would they do that?” Duh… So you love the start, get the cliffhanging end, and buy the book! Download the pdf file. Link…
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I still find it a bit shocking that cities big and small are laying-off police officers. The latest is San Jose, which laid-off 66 police officers with the least seniority: In addition to the cops let go, the city cut nearly 100 police positions left vacant by recent retirements and departures The police force shrunk…
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My article is in the July issue of Reason is available online: When I was a police officer in Baltimore, one sergeant would sometimes motivate his troops in the middle of a shift change by joyfully shouting, “All right, you maggots! Let’s lock people up! They don’t pay you to stand around. I want production!…
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This is noteworthy in its rarity. Keep in mind that New York is one of the few states that has de-carcertaed over that past decades (and no, crime has not gone up). Notice too how most of the article is about jobs and the economy, not crime. Notably, Mr. Cuomo spared several large prisons in…
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Me. At 2:45pm Eastern Time. Stream Team with Fredricka Whitfield. A mega 5-minute segment.
Western District Officer McAndrew retires after 50 years of service. From the Sun: He had no idea that he would carry this passion for 50 years of service. Asked how many police commissioners he had served under, McAndrew smiled, and said: Everyone. (anybody know his sequence number!?)
From the Village Voice, debunking everybody from Ashton Kutcher to CNN and the New York Timeswho repeat the absurd claim that there are “between 100,000 and 300,000 child sex slaves in the United States today!” We examined arrests for juvenile prostitution in the nation’s 37 largest cities during a 10-year period. … Law enforcement records…
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Generally I support the goals of prison reformers. Prisons are not supposed to be torture chambers that destroy the lives of all who enter. So I support efforts to make them better. But in my book I compare that to asking for comfier seats on the train to Auschwitz. It’s kind of missing the big…
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“Come now, E.B.! It’s time for us to venture out and continue our study of early 21st century society…” “Aww. Can’t we just stay in and do our research online?” “I’m afraid not… to truly understand a people and culture, we must walk among them! Document their daily routines and observe them in direct face…
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The New York Timeshas an article about the absurd sentence (150 years) Madoff received. Why is absurd? Not because he doesn’t deserve it. It’s absurd because Madoff was then 71 years old! Seems to me a good defense of flogging: Judge Chin’s recollections resurrect all the anger, shock and confusion that surrounded Mr. Madoff’s crimes,…
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