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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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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There are a lot. And a metablog about them.
In the Chicago Tribune.
I got Badges, Bullets & Bars in the mail and started reading it. I am amazed (maybe pleased is a better word) to find that one story — a police urban myth I constantly heard — is true. There are many crazy stories cops tell. And every squad has its own ghosts. Most of the…
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This is a shame. And stupid. One guy escaped. So what? From the Newark Start Ledger.
In the Kansas City Star by Tony Rizzo.
It turns out you can fight City Hall. In 1857 they did. And won. It turns out that if you’re City Hall, you can’t fight the State House. The winner of this brawl at City Hall between two competing police departments got to be New York’s Finest! The mayor was arrested and New York State…
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Too bad a story about an honest Liberian customs officer is news. But hell, if I made $15 a month… I would probably take the $20,000 bribe. So I guess he’s a better man than me. And they did give him a medal. And $1,000.
Baltimore Crime turned me on to this: Spotcrime maps every shooting in Baltimore (City and County) for 2008. Hit ‘start’ at the top left. Whether you want Turning of the sound to hear the bang bangs is up to you. At the time of this writing, I’m still only in October. I can’t tell if…
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