Officer Pete says (rule 19):
I don’t stop people because they’re black. Everyone I stop is black because there are no white people where I work.
I don’t stop people because they’re black. Everyone I stop is black because there are no white people where I work.
Nothing keeps the hoodlums inside like a little rain.
Mexican police chiefs are getting killed right and left, thanks to the war on drugs. Brendan McKanna of the Dallas Morning News reportsthat other chiefs are quitting their posts and three police chiefs have applied for political asylum in the United States out of fear for their lives. When they stand down, who’s going to…
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If you want to kill somebody, go right up and shoot him in the head. Otherwise you never know where those bullets can go.
The man behind the famous Stanford Prison Experiment, Dr. Phillip Zimbardo, is examining how people view altruism and heroism. Help his research by completing an online questionnaire at http://www.socialpsychresearch.org. There are six screens of questions (I hate when they don’t tell you when it will end). It takes about 10 min. What do you get…
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One of the stranger headlines appears in today’s Sun: City infant was not hit by bullet, police say.
Please don’t shoot your guns up in the air. It scares the neighbors.
I received this email today. It’s worth reading. I wish all police officers wrote so well. I wish all my students wrote so well. Too bad he’s not my student. Some small police department’s gain was surely Baltimore’s loss. I recently finished the first chapter of your book, Cop in the Hood and found it…
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Dear Prof. Moskos First off, let me say that I enjoyed your book. As someone who has recently moved to Baltimore and now finds themselves living on the edge of the Eastern I found it a fascinating read. Your discussion of 911 helped to explain the very big difference in reaction between the community meetings.…
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You probably heard about the mass of San Diego State University students arrested for drug dealing. That college students take drugs shouldn’t be a big surprise for anybody who went to college. College students drink, too. Nor, if it weren’t for the guns involved, would I see it as a big problem. The far more…
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