I just happen to be in Pittsburgh. And I just happened to bike by mile after mile of police cars from around the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the nation. I asked an officer where the service was and decided to pay my respects to officers Paul J. Sciullo II [pronounced Shullo], Eric Kelly, and Stephen…
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Feds Say Utz Potato Chip Stand at Baltimore’s Lexington Market Was Used to Sell Guns. And it looks like The Greek is behind it, according to the story by Van Smith and Chris Landers in the Baltimore City Paper. I wonder if this means the wedding is off?Or at least of the shotgun variety.
There’s a Q & A with former baseball player Darryl Strawberry in the New York Times today. He could’ve been a contender. Actually, for more than a few years he was, playing half a glorious career before crashing and burning on cocaine. Q: You have your own history of illegal drug use, complete with cocaine…
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Drug War Chronicle reviewed Cop in the Hood a while back and somehow I missed it. Here it is: I would imagine that most Drug War Chronicle readers… have little knowledge of or empathy for the men in blue. … Moskos really shines at getting his comrades to speak openly and honestly about their attitudes,…
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Why were the Oakland police shootings front-page nationwide news and the Pittsburgh police shootings not? I don’t think it’s just the difference between 3 versus 4 officers killed. Somehow an angry violent black killer makes for better headlines than an angry violent white killer. Am I supposed to believe that white killers just flip out…
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Officer Rafael Lora was trying to do his job. Now he has no job and is looking at prison. The story in the New York Times and the Post. I wasn’t there. But I believe the officer. Why? Because why else would have Lora shot the driver? This is one case where even an NYPD…
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Paul Bacon’s Bad Cop: New York’s Least Likely Police Officer Tells All is a good book. It’s a quick read and a nice look inside the NYPD. My problem is that the hits a little too close to home. Bacon is a self-professed liberal who only stayed in the police department a few years. Errrrr……
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In town for a conference, a director of Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty is detained by TSA at the St. Louis airport because when asked to explain why he’s carrying $4,700 in cash (it was proceeds from book and ticket sales at the conference), he asks the agents to tell him what law requires him…
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The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that, “A Philadelphia police officer has been put on desk duty after he was quoted spouting his disgust for the black residents in the community he patrolled.” And people wonder why cops don’t trust outsiders. The officer is said to have used the “N word” (though not at somebody). I won’t…
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Will Wilkinson interviewed me a while back on Bloggingheads TV. The Atlantic Monthly’s Andrew Sullivan has been documenting on his blog the stories of typical, productive Americans—kids’ football coaches, secretaries of the PTA—who smoke marijuana because they like to smoke marijuana, but who understandably fear emerging fully from the “cannabis closet.” This is a profoundly…
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