“Massachusetts Chief Charged Over Event Where Boy Killed Self With Uzi.” The story by Michael Levenson from the Boston Globe. I kind of feel sorry for the Chief. It’s interesting the father wasn’t charged. Not that I think charging him would accomplish anything. It’s just that I can’t imagine the same courtesy going out to…
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There’s a shocker. The story’s by Cheryl Thompson in the Washington Post.
I got issues with this piecefrom the normally stellar Economist.I just happened to have lunch yesterday with George Kelling. He has issues, too. For one thing, Broken Windows is not Zero Tolerance.
I just received this interesting email from the po-po in Vermont (oh, I chuckle at my own wit… because somehow I imagine police in Vermont don’t get called “po-po” much). Professor, Love reading your web site. I like your perspectives on these issues you write about. I was just reading your articles on “Balancing Security…
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In the New York Times, Christine Hauser writes a very good article about “desk duty” in the NYPD. “An officer… spent more than 18 months watching surveillance video while authorities investigated an accusation that he had struck a suspect. [He] was eventually cleared of the charge.” In Baltimore they call getting mired in the department…
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The latest issue of Drug War Chronicle has an excellent reviewof Cop in the Hood. “As revelatory as it is sometimes disturbing…. Engaging, even riveting”
The LA Times has a series on Mexico’s War on Drugs.
I’m back from St. Louis. Despite growing up in nearby Chicago, I had never been to St. Louis. In my mind, I was thinking the Baltimore of Midwest: Faded industrial glory, local pride, and the answer to one of my own favorite personal trivia questions: What city of a certain size (at least a couple…
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I’ve said that Tasers are overused and too often lethal. But here is a perfect use–as an alternative to lethal force. Well done, BPD. The Baltimore Sunreports: Baltimore police use Taser to subdue armed woman November 17, 2008 Baltimore police used a Taser last night to disable a woman who was wielding a handgun in…
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In the morning I’m off to Chicago for a memorial for my father at Northwestern University. Then on Friday to St. Louis for the annual American Society of Criminology Conference (and dude, do theyknow how to party…) I’ll be back next week…