This is a question I’ve been asked a surprising number of times (Once by a national TV host during a commercial break). Usually the tone is joking (ie: completely serious). A certain lazy and rude copin Chicago got me thinking about it. My answer: “Because they can.” As a non-asshole (in my humble opinion) former…
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The stories don’t usually have happy endings. And it was caught on video. He then kicked the window out of the police. But the robber’s mother said this was “not within his character.” Oh, mom.
Because (some) cops enforce non-existent laws and treat them like sh*t. Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about a recent encounter with police on the streets of Chicago: Catercorner to the volunteers of Safe Passage, two cops sat in an SUV, snug and warm. Our video team was shooting the conversation between our host and the kid. One…
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Let’s play a game called “write the headline.” Here’s the story from the New York Times: According to the latest federal figures, which were part of an annual survey, Monitoring the Future…. The report looked at a wide variety of drugs and substances. It found, for example, that drinking was steadily declining, with roughly 40…
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Today is my EOD, just FYI. The day before the day that will live in infamy. I’m thrilled I don’t have another 9 to go.
This article in Slate by Justin Peters is perhaps not the stupidest thing I’ve ever read on policing. But it is the stupidest thing I’ve read about Broken Windows since Bratton was announced as the next NYPD commissioner about 20 hours ago. Peters writes, “Broken-windows strategies and zero-tolerance policing strategies go hand in hand.” Well,…
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NBC Chicago Reports via Atlantic Cities: Chicago closed out the first 11 months of 2013 with 380 murders, a drop from 474 in the same period of 2012, according to police data. That’s the fewest for any year in Chicago since 1965, according to Adam Collins, the Chicago Police Department Director of News Affairs.
This is exciting news for policing (and police research) in NYC.
Dang is the Onion funny. Watch the video here.
What? It’s true! (Even if it is from 1909.) Why do I mention this? Maybe because it all started when a Greek-American shot and killed South Omaha Police Officer Ed Lowery. Or maybe not. Look, this has nothing to do with police (except for the aforementioned killing), but my third book is finally out. It’s…
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