I’m not opposed to arresting people who are willing to detonate what they think is a bomb in public places. It’s not easy to arrest a suicide bomber after an attack. But consider Glenn Greenwald’s article: “The FBI successfully thwarts its own Terrorist plot” something does smell a little fishy: Having stopped a plot which…
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It’s a headline you don’t see much. These guys were Columbia University students. Notice, if you will, the only real crime–the crime with a potential victim–is entirely the result of prohibition. So much of drug violence revolves around getting people to pay debts. That’s what happens when the business is illegal. And just one more…
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One of the funnier (at least if you’re a cop) police reports you will ever read. [I’m warning you, it’s not suitable for kids] The report is here and a story about it is here. (By the way, despite what the story claims, I’m sure the actual line has been in many police reports.)
Heard it on Facebook. That’s all I know. But it’s a big fire.
…I’d have twelve years on today, with eight to go.
Thomas Friedman in the Times: Saudi donors today still constitute the most significant source of funding to Sunni terrorist groups worldwide — not to mention the fundamentalist mosques, charities and schools that spawn the Taliban in Pakistan and Afghanistan. So basically our oil payments are cycled through Saudi Arabia and end up funding the very…
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Happy Repeal Anniversary! I just learned through a friend on Facebook that it’s Prohibition Repeal Day. No better time to think about vice and the virtues of individual freedom. But remember that the end of Prohibition brought despair, crime, more drinking, and criminals. Oh no, wait, that’s the wrong press release. That’s what prohibitionists saidwould…
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Drug Czar Kerlikowske said, “drugged driving is a much bigger public health threat than most Americans realize and unfortunately, it may be getting worse.” [Cue evil music!] Except, of course, it’s not. Kerlikowske is talking about this, which estimates that one-third of those who die in motor vehicle fatalities test positive for drugs. The problem,…
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This is a headline you don’t see enough and should see more. Here’s a BBC video from Madrid that is pretty great. Sure, everybody can wave all they want. But it takes a cop, an off-duty cop in this case, to jump on the tracks and actually do the right thing. [p.s. Why do trains…
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Mosi Secret of the Times reports on nonfelony defendants arrested in the city in 2008: In more than three-quarters of the 117,064 cases, defendants were released on their own recognizance. In 19,137 cases from that year, bail was set at $1,000 or less. The report found that 87 percent of the defendants in those cases…
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