That Christmas Spirit
I’m not one to give dumb crime fighting tips, but keep this in mind: even criminals need to buy presents. The week before Christmas is always a busy time for police, with extra muggings and robberies.
I’m not one to give dumb crime fighting tips, but keep this in mind: even criminals need to buy presents. The week before Christmas is always a busy time for police, with extra muggings and robberies.
A jury in Brooklyn on Wednesday night acquitted one of three mencharged in the fatal shooting of Police Officer Russel Timoshenko of murder charges.
I went through my field notes. My first dream in which I was in uniform happened about four months into the police academy. But it wasn’t a bad dream. But then about a year after that, after about 10 months on the streets of the Eastern, I wrote this: Had another bad cop dream. Somebody…
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One thing I hated about being a cop was having work dreams. I mean, I still have them. Don’t we all? But now my dreams are occasionally about being late for class, or unable to get my things together and leave home (the latter happens quite often in real life as well). Whatever, dude. So…
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The Boston Globehad a nice tribute to Boston Police Officer Walter Fahey, who died in October. [Update: I just received a very gracious email from Walter Fahey’s son. He mentions this piece in particular as capturing the spirit of his father. As my father wrote before he recently passed away: We shall never see their…
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I’m too swamped with final papers right now to give this the justice it deserves (But I will give this link to other posts on gun control). I’m sure some of you might have some thoughts on this email I just received. Please comment and discuss. I live in VT which has very liberal (ha…
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So says the BBC.
I’m quick to give police the benefit of the doubt. I rarely feel good when an officer gets criminally charged. But an unprovokedassault on someone that could have been me? F**k ‘im. I’ve written about this incident before. The big offense, interestingly, isn’t for assaulting the guy. Early reports are that he’s just going to…
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I first published this a year ago when nobody read my blog. It’s worth a rehash. #1) 1900 Block of E Eager. 1906 E Eager is the third house (with awning) from Mr. George’s corner laundromat. Two short blocks North of Johns Hopkins Hospital, this corner (Wolfe and Eager) is one of the “hottest” (but…
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American has too many people behind bars, horrible levels of violence, foreign policy undermined by the War on Drugs, busts down the doors of citizens, makes poor people pee in cups to get a job, and–now this is important–the highest rate of illegal drug use in the world. Can John Walters really even write “our…
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