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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Moskos on Moskos. The old man would have loved this one!
Well this is going to set back sentencing reformfor a while! I suspect this seventh strike will put him away for life. A multiple felon who campaigned against California’s three-strikes law and was free after managing four times to escape its harsh sentencing guidelines has been charged with murdering four people in home-invasion robberies here…
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I know it’s not in the spirit of Thanskgiving to brag, but I’ll be damned if five hours later this bird wasn’t deee-licious. And besides, “it ain’t bragging if it’s true.”
Or, more accurately, “The Baltimore City police men and women of late Fall 2009,” but nobody ever wrote a book with that name. I’ve also always wondered just how many of my class are still with the Baltimore Police Department. This seems a rather simple question, but such data, especially if it’s police related, can…
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I see pictures like this from the Daily Newsand I notice one thing: the shoes. If you’re hit by a car going too fast, the shoes will fly off your feet and be left basically where you are hit. Think of how much pressure you can apply and not get your shoes off your feet.…
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From Chicago, the Sun-Timesreports on the death of a Bears fan: A skilled climber who enjoyed scaling up the side of buildings and trees, he may have even hopped over a railing to enjoy a cigarette behind one of Soldier Field’s famous columns before he fell, friends said.
But we all know that. He doesn’t keep it secret and thinks it should be legal. But since it’s not, he’s been arrested for it. Again. Of course it’s silly a supposedly free country wastes our money and law enforcement resources arresting senior-citizen for smoking a pretty harmless substance. Of course it’s probably not a…
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A one-year veteran was seriously shot on N. Calvert Street early Sunday morning. He’s expected to survive. I hope he does. From the Sun: A man opened fire on him near the downtown nightlife hub, touching off a running gunbattle as tactical officers pursued the suspect up North Calvert Street. The suspect fled on foot,…
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Ray Rivera in the Times: Five New York City police officers who wounded two bystanders in a shootout with a suspect in Harlem in 2005 cannot be held negligent, the state’s highest court ruled on Tuesday, ending a five-year legal battle before it went to trial. In a 4-to-3 decision, the State Court of Appeals…
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