[Detroit Police Chief] Evans reiterated his sense that people feel Detroit is supposed to have crime. He said he goes out two nights a week and works the streets, stopping motorists who rarely have driver’s license, registration, insurance. “What I say is: ‘Do you drive north of 8 Mile like this?’ And they say, ‘Hell…
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The New York Times has a nice map of homicides in the city. You can select by various variables, but unfortunately not more than one at a time. The Baltimore Sun has a similar but better map. I’m always a bit surprised by just how few white homicide victims there are. Or, conversely, how many…
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More police lore in the making. Not quite a turkey drumstick, but similar: Police have arrested a 42-year-old woman who said a dispute over a dinner roll led to a fatal fight with her father. … The woman reportedly told investigators she ate a dinner roll her father had been saving for later, even though…
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Bealefeld, Baltimore’s police commish, says: Those guys got fairly nominal sentences for some heinous stuff that they did to these kids, and if it happened in a white neighborhood in any other community in this state, we’d still be talking about it, and people would be talking about life sentences…. And these people get out…
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Teen killed by dad was carrying his baby. The story in the NY Daily News.
This mild-mannered Stephen Morgan lives a quiet professorial life in Ithaca with his wife and kids (at least that is what he tells me). This Stephen Morgan is a grad-school friend of mine and was nice enough to invite me to speak at Cornell University last month. Some of his best friends are Jews. And…
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A witness identified Anderson, of the 4300 block of Seminole Ave., as one of the kidnappers…. Anderson has been arrested and charged at least 37 times, mostly with drug possession charges…. Most were dropped by prosecutors before they reached trial. He was also charged three times with attempted murder and five times with handgun charges,…
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So says New York State’s highest court, the Court of Appeals. Sewell Chan of the Times reports. Unfortunately for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Judge Graffeo’s decision contains details that can be used as instructions for bending MetroCards to get free rides. The judge devoted her entire first section, more than two pages, to explaining the…
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Anonymous posted a comment on the previous post: I can’t wait for the fudged numbers of the NYPD Comp-stat to be exposed…” Boy, there sure is a lot of chatter about the fudged numbers in the NYPD (and I’m talking about chatter from NYPD officers). I didn’t hear this nearly so much even just a…
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A man robs a Dunkin’ Donuts at (BB) gunpoint in Hinsdale, ILL. About 24 hours later he returned, confessed, apologized and put the money on the counter, including loose change he’d gotten from the cash register, authorities said. When he realized the clerk did not speak English, he wrote a note that said he was…
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