There’s an article in the New York Times that isn’t actually supposed to about police. An academic study asked participants how often they experienced eight “workplace conflict scenarios.” These are: * Someone treating them unfairly * Someone blaming or criticizing them for something that wasn’t their fault * Someone failing to do the work that…
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This is so bizarre I first thought it was satire: A robbery victim gets arrested and the robber gets fed wine and cheese! Classy. But it’s not satire. Trots op NLmeans “Proud of the Netherlands” and is a fringe right-wing political party that is playing on racism and fear of crime. Is white people drowning…
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The NYPD Tapes, Part 2, by Graham Rayman in the Village Voice. (And a link to my comments on Part 1) Commentary: “Oh, You Mean Those Quotas” by Radley Balko. “Those Schoolcraft Tapes” by Leonard Levitt. Update with working links to all the posts on Schoolcraft.
Harry Moskos–journalist and streetcar advocate (also my uncle)–writes in the Albuquerque Journal, “Obama’s Birthers Should Check Out My Daughters’ Papers.” Our two daughters, like Obama, were born in Honolulu. We lived in Hawaii from 1963 to 1969. … Obama was born at Kapi’olani Medical Center for Women & Children, the same hospital where our daughters…
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Am I really the only person who is skeptical enough to check the basic truth of emails before forwarding them to my 140 closest friends? I mean, it doesn’t take too long to go to Snopes The thing about mass-forwarded right-wing emails is that they are almost always never true. They’re like the headlines in…
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A good article by Ben Nuckols about crime in Baltimore and the good things happening under Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld. In a blighted west Baltimore neighborhood, Lt. Ian Dombroski turns his unmarked police car around a corner and sees several men standing outside a liquor store. They scatter immediately. Dombroski knows they’re probably selling drugs,…
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Ninety percent of those stopped by the NYPD are black and latino. So says the New York Times. Is this a cause for concern? I don’t know. Something certainly bothers me when my male black and hispanic students complain of being stopped by the police often (and often rudely stopped). But there is one touchy…
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In 2007, Mexican and US drug agents raided a home in Mexico City. Over $200,000,000 in cash was found. Lot’s of other stuff, too. Like tigers and gold guns! It’s pretty impressive. I put the pictures in a PDF file. It’s not recent, but I just got an email with the pictures from a student.…
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The story in the Sun. The guys who attacked him, in what seems to be a case of road rage, were quick to drop the N-Bomb and talk about hanging Detective Cook, who is black. For just being cut in the eye, give Cook credit for being calm on professional on the phone. Officers move…
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A reader pointed me to this story in New York’s Village Voice. In the 81st Precinct in New York City, a cop, Schoolcraft, secretly recorded roll call and other happenings over the course of the year. Bold. Though all he seems to show is something we all should already know. In the NYPD, everybody is…
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