…of the war in the drugs, mostly in Mexico. While you lose you appetite looking at these, remember the US party line that violence in Mexico is a sign the drug gangs are on the run. War is peace! (I’ve never seen those evidence cones get to number 71… and we had some pretty big…
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Portz is the first Baltimore City officer to be killed in the line of duty since 2007, and the third city officer killed in less than a month. His funeral is today. You can read my account of a police funeral on the last two pages of this.
Officer (now Detective) Jones was lucky she wasn’t killed. 19-year-old Winston Cox was robbing a store and Jones pulled her gun and announced her presence as a police officer. Cox fired and she returned fire, striking Cox. Why did she say anything before firing? She should have just come out and “incapacitated” Cox (ie: shot…
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From The Detroit News: The average response time for dangerous runs in Detroit is 24 minutes from the time a 911 call is received, according to statistics released in April. Nationwide statistics are not available, but Atlanta, Ga., police have an 11-minute average response time and in Washington, D.C., police respond in an average of…
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Four killed in 15 hours in Baltimore. Two, I believe, in the Sector Two of the Eastern District.
From the Daily News: The fearless off-duty cop who faced down an armed robber in a Brooklyn beauty parlor on Saturday managed to shoot the pistol right out of the crook’s hands, cops said Monday. And in a scene that would be over the top even for the most ridiculous Hollywood cop movie, one of…
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Here’s a non-story: NYPD Commissioner Kelly didn’t disclose that the Police Foundation paid his dues at the Harvard Club. My God, who cares? Good God, Lenny, I know you hate Kelly with a passion bordering on obsessive (and that’s putting it mildly), but is this the best you got on the guy? If so, you…
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…Oh, never mind. I see it now. G2. Thanks anyway.” It’s a sign from Athens send by the woman who runs this great bike tour company in Greece. The weird part is that for the life of me I can’t figure out what it’s supposed to be (and I speak Greek!). [Update: I think I…
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Mark Shields has a good column about a speech by Robert Gates, “the one memorable speech of the 2010 campaign”: Gates spoke directly of an avoided undemocratic reality — that most Americans have grown detached from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, that the great civilian majority has come to view military service as “something…
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White dog… that’s moonshine, hootch, likker. Who hasn’t dreamed of distilling up a little batch in their basement (What? Is it just me?). It’s also generally illegal. Max Watman, I nice guy I met once (what’s how I learned about his book) has written a gem, Chasing the White Dog: An Amateur Outlaw’s Adventures in…
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