Quality Policing Podcast and Blog

Dump Kellogg’s

Ethan “Rabble-Rouser” Nadelman has a clever idea. A “Call Kellogg’s Campaign” that lets the corporation know that their dumping Phelps is good reason for us to dump Kellogg might just make the point that more and more Americans are sick and tired of this particular spectacle. Just say No to Kellogg’s. Call them at 800-962-1413…
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Same old same old

After a Howard County police raid on his house three weeks ago, Mike Hasenei says he has a sprained wrist, a dead dog, a bullet hole in his bed and a 12-year-old daughter who is scared every time she hears a knock on the door. No one was arrested in the raid.

Turkey leg killing

I mentioned the turkey leg killing story to my classes today. Many of the NYPD officers in my class had heard the story! How? I don’t know. It really is like a police urban myth. None claimed it as a New York City story. But none had any idea where it was from.

Phelps and weed

Read The Agitator’s letter that Phelps should say. Brilliant.

Bong Hits for Phelps

Too bad it’s illegal. The News of the World has the scoop: A picture of Gold Medal swimmer Michael Phelps (gasp!), smoking marijuana (gasp!) from a bong (double gasp!) So what? Most people (at least young Americans) have smoked marijuana. Many from a bong. You can smoke marijuana and live a perfectly functional, even gold-medal…
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Cell phone jamming

As President Obama’s motorcade rolled down Pennsylvania Avenue on Inauguration Day, federal authorities deployed a closely held law enforcement tool: equipment that can jam cellphones and other wireless devices to foil remote-controlled bombs, sources said. It is an increasingly common technology, with federal agencies expanding its use as state and local agencies are pushing for…
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Killed Over a Loosey

A 30-year-old man was chased down by four women and stabbed more than 20 times early Sunday after arguing with them over a broken cigarette, sources said. Here’s the story in the Chicago Sun Times: “The slain man, Morris Wilson, was drinking with the four women at about 2 a.m. when he broke a cigarette,…
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General Says Shoot Drug Trafficers in Afghanistan

Not only is it illegal, it’s stupid! Here’s the story in the Times. Maybe Obama will fire Gen. John Craddock, this idiot. In a confidential letter to NATO, he wrote: “It was no longer necessary to produce intelligence or other evidence that each particular drug trafficker or narcotics facility in Afghanistan meets the criteria of…
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More on the 14-year-old cop impersonator

In the Chicago Tribune.