This is a letter to just one person who posts by the name “Frequent Poster.” Dear Frequent Poster, You are the first and only person whose comments I have deleted. The first from hundreds of comments and thousands of readers. I suppose it is a coming-of-age experience for a blogger to have to delete a…
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But not usually when police are under fire. Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis on Friday denounced as “reprehensible” — and demanded severe punishment against those responsible for — a 911 dispatch delay that left an off-duty police officer to fend for himself while being shot at from a car filled with alleged gang members. ……
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Oh, look! The Oniondid a feature story about me. Just for the record, I do not have a Cubs jacket nor do I bring my transistor radio to games. But, uh, yeah, I do have a little radio shack transistor radio. And I like keeping score when watching a baseball game. Is that so wrong?
As time goes on, I’m liking this shooting less and less. I love how some conspiracy anti-police folks were saying there was never a woman in his car and the police made all that up. There was. Stephens County court records now indicate the woman riding with Ayers the day he was shot was Kala…
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I wrote about my drug test a few days ago. Tonight I asked my students if they had ever been drug tested. Approximately 2/3 of my masters students (n ~ 55) and all of my undergraduate students (n ~ 30) have been through a drug test. Every single one. That shocked me. It also bothers…
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Buried in a story about an LAPD narcotics officer killing herself is this information: “Between 1998 and 2007, 19 LAPD officers committed suicide.” That’s a lot. More, in fact, that the 11 LAPD officers who have died in action.
Tom Tomorrow’s “This Modern World” is my favorite political comic. He’s liberal. And it’s better for me to read his comic and laugh smugly than bash my head into a wall over conservative hypocrisy. Here’s his latest winner over at Salon.com. Not that you asked, but my other favorite comics are Doonesbury, Pearls Before Swine,…
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Sometimes you get criticized for shooting too fast. Sometimes you don’t shoot fast enough. Here’s to North St. Paul police officer Richard Crittenden. While protecting someone else, Officer Crittenden was killed with his own service weapon. Rest in Peace. Crittenden reportedly pushed the woman out of harm’s way but in the process left himself vulnerable…
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In an off-topic comment to another post, “Badge Licker” (is that like Holster Sniffer?) wrote: “Undercover narcotics agents take out the trash this week.” I clicked on the link and realized this was talking about Jonathan Ayers. That got me thinking. Here’s a later report [dead link removed] from the same Fox News station. [dead…
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Kristina Goetz of the Memphis Commercial Appealhas this story about an officer doing “deep undercover.” She also had to restrain her police instincts to break up a fight at a convenience store or call social services if she saw a dealer hit his child because being caught would compromise the larger goal. And what larger…
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