More police lore in the making. Not quite a turkey drumstick, but similar: Police have arrested a 42-year-old woman who said a dispute over a dinner roll led to a fatal fight with her father. … The woman reportedly told investigators she ate a dinner roll her father had been saving for later, even though…
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The glorious genre of Cop Lit has many notable contributors. The writing ranges from the driest academic tome to the cheesiest pulp fiction. There a pretty extensive list of police books at police-writers.com. A lot of them are crap. But many are good. Two of the best older police books are Jonathan Rubinstein’s City Police…
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Justin Fenton writes in the Sun.
I’m supposed to grading papers so I’ll keep this short. But what does the police beating in Birmingham and the foiled terrorist plot in New York have in common? Neither would have happened were it not for the war on drugs. Three of the four bad guys in New York were in prison… for drug…
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You don’t usually hear about thistoo much. He sounds like a very bad man.
Plot foiled. The story in the Post.
Bealefeld, Baltimore’s police commish, says: Those guys got fairly nominal sentences for some heinous stuff that they did to these kids, and if it happened in a white neighborhood in any other community in this state, we’d still be talking about it, and people would be talking about life sentences…. And these people get out…
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The story by Suzanne Smalley in Newsweek: A prison may not seem like the best place to raise infants. But researchers are finding that it’s better than the alternative. Joseph Carlson, a criminal-justice professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney who recently completed a 10-year study, says he thought such programs were “strange” when…
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New York City Police Department advises all Shield members regarding a military aircraft flyover that will occur on May 20, 2009 at 11:45 a.m. The flyover is part of the Fleet Week festivities and will include four military planes flying over New York City at a low altitude. At approximately 11:45 a.m., four F-18 Hornets…
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The Oakland police captain who runs the department’s SWAT unit has asked to be reassigned because of the team’s resentment over his decision to console the families of two officers slain by a parolee rather than lead what became an ill-fated raid for the killer. Jaxon Van Derbeken reports in the San Francisco Chronicle.