Quality Policing Podcast and Blog

Good Shooting

Videoof police-involved shooting. Cops 1. Robber 0.

Sitting at the Schadenfreude Cafe

I don’t quite know how else to describe my perusal of right-wing blogs responding to the shocker than Obama was born in Hawaii. What’s funny, though not surprising, is I haven’t heard a single person say, “gosh, I guess… I was wrong.” I guess it’s all about that “conviction” thing. “Why does it say Barrack…
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Don’t Get a Crime Scene Tattooed on Your Chest

A former student sent me this link. Good stuff! And good work by LAPD homicide Lt. Dave Dolson. The LA Timesstory is here.

We need higher taxes…

…to pay for police. Newark laid off police and murders are up 71percent this year. That’s penny wise and pound foolish. The Newark Star-Ledgerreports.

NYPD Stop and Frisks and Marijuana Arrests

WNYC reporter Ailsa Chang reports on the curious link between stop and frisks and marijuana arrests in New York City. It’s curious because small-scale possession of marijuana in New York State isn’t a crime (it is a non-arrestable ticketable “violation”). Nor do drugs that are “immediately apparent” based on “plain-feel” during a “Terry Frisk” (for…
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Faith and the Badge

NYPD Sergeant (and Cop in the Hood fan) Martin Browne is interviewed about being Catholic and being a cop. It’s a good interview.

An Easter Flogging

The first article to come from my new book is out in the Chronicle of Higher Education. A crazy idea came from a dinner in New Orleans. I had cold-called (or whatever the e-mail equivalent is) a writer and his wife because I was a fan of his work and thought we had much in…
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Mexican Poet Against the Drug War

I’m back from Mexico City, happy to have been there. No, I didn’t get sick (or mugged). Yes, I ate everything (including grasshopper quesadillas, which I can say are tasty, but it’s still best not to lift the tortilla and look at the critters melted in with the cheese). But I’m also happy to be…
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Riot Police Drinking on the Job…

…isn’t such a big deal in France. Or maybe now it is. Either way, seems like the French attitude (the Italians do pretty much the same) is much healthier than our own American attitude toward alcohol.

Union Power (II)

Two unions I support, simply because they have kick-ass logos (on par with my local International Association of Heat and Frost Insulators and Allied Workers)! I particularly admire the telephone operators union logo and the fact that there was a vendor outside the building selling t-shirts and coffee mugs withtheir logo. I bought one of…
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