The California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) is the union for prison guards. I’m all for unions for prison guards. They have a tough job, horrible working conditions (uh, prison), and I certain would not want their job. I believe their union should have a loud and robust voice on such things as pay, working…
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You know, for some reason I can’t figure out, I kind of like Al Sharpton. Not for what he does or stands for. Not for the lies he has said. I just like listening to him. He amuses me. Think of him running for President in 2004. He kept the debates interesting, that’s for sure.…
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I have a dream that one day a black man will rise to become the leader of this great nation and Al Sharpton will pray with a lying white man and say, “I don’t care if the cops were blacks and he was white or vice versa.” Free at last! Free at last! Thank God…
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If you don’t live in Baltimore, it’s hard to understand just how big of a problem this is. If you do live in Baltimore, you may not realize that this problem doesn’t really exist anywhere else, at least not like it does in Baltimore. The bikes themselves weren’t illegal. But riding them is. It’s a…
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There’s a story in many New York City papers today about accusations that 5 members of the NYPD stuck something up a guy’s ass ala Louima. Google any NY paper for the details. I’d just like to go on record as saying, “Bullshit. It ain’t true.” Do I know? No. You’ll just have to trust…
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Joe Conason has a good piece in Salon about the war on drugs. Want to cut waste and abuse? How about starting with the $50 billion we spend every year on the war on drugs. And why aren’t either McCain or Obama talking it?
There’s more about that here. Also interesting (if it weren’t, would I post it?). “Officers Seeking Fare Evaders Often Find Worse Crimes.” And here’s a first hand account of the shooting from the L.T.
There’s more here. It’s interesting.
“It’s not that SWAT tactics are always wrong. It’s that they’re frighteningly too often the first resort with the police departments that have them.” That’s from The Agitator. It’s worth reading.
The New York Times reports. The Queensbridge Homes are not too far from where I live. A man who was being arrested for using a student MetroCard on Tuesday evening struggled with two plainclothes police officers in a Queens subway station and then shot them with the gun of one of the officers, the police…
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