I’m strangely un-passionate about the death penalty. I think it’s wrong to kill. If I could wave a magic wand and do away with it, I would. And yet I don’t really care when criminals are executed. I certainly don’t shed a tear them. Recent poll datashow that 83% of Americans support the death penalty…
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Carolee Bildsten, 56, of the 5300 block of David Court, allegedly assaulted the officer on Tuesday evening with what Gurnee Police Cmdr. Jay Patrick called “a rigid feminine pleasure device.” So says the the Trib. [Thanks to Hephestos, my Koumbaros.]
The Wall Street Journal reports: New York City police fired fewer bullets at suspects last year than any time since the department first began keeping in-depth shooting statistics 39 years ago … In 2008, the department was also involved in 105 shooting incidents, with the 125 officers firing a total of 364 bullets. No city…
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I would love it if we could distinguish between quotas and what happened to Adrian Schoolcraft. Just because the NYPD has (as Schoolcraft says) quotas (or at least something that line officers feel are quotas) does not grant legitimacy to Schoolcraft’s media-hungry self-serving whining about how he was treated by the NYPD. There is a…
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Because the Chicago Police Department isn’t providing cash payments to settle out of court. Once that incentive goes away…
Frank Zimring has always been one of the better criminologists out there. This nine minute video from the Vera Institute of Justice hows some of the reasons why.
Of course that’s meant to be a sensational headline… but it’s actually true. And God only knows how the DEA would flip the tables if some anti-drug-war group was guilty of the same thing. According to the Times: [The DEA] sent David C. Headley, a small-time drug dealer and sometime informant, to work for them…
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The suspect is an armed and crazy and racist murderer. He’s killed before. He has multiple weapons. After a tip-off you get a warrant for his arrest. You know where he lives. A surveillance unit outside confirm his presence. Plan B is to send in the SWAT team and bust down the door in a…
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From my favorite comic strip, Stephan Patsis’s Pearls before Swine: