David Simon, of The Wire, Homicide, and The Corner fame, has written a very powerful article in the Washington Post. The Baltimore Police stopped releasing the names of officers involved in police-involved shootings. Personally, I like reading the names in the paper to see if it’s anybody I know. Sure I could call up a…
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This is the kind of shootings that makes cops smile. Bad guys gets what he had coming. Reminds me of the time in roll call when the sergeant was describing a complicated shooting in Sector One on Barclay St. or Greenmount Ave. It was a confusing tale of a Mexican guy, a black guy, a…
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I feel like it was just yesterday I wrote: “If police think you might be armed and you won’t follow orders… well, it’s on you. Sorry. It may not be right, but that’s just the way it is.” Here’s a Baltimore case in point.
I think the most amazing thing is that he kept the cigarette in his mouth the whole time! Pictures are here.
The Daily Newsreports that a cop’s gun “accidentally” fired. No it di’int!If there’s one thing I learned as a cop, it’s that guns don’t fire by themselves. You gotta pull the trigger. Now there is a chance, if your finger is on the trigger, that you could get hit by something and accidentally squeeze the…
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My former firearms instructor sent me this link. It’s a fun little game. Shoot the guys with the gun, not the guys with wallets and cell phones. You won’t do it perfectly (and neither do cops). You face around 100 people, my guess is half are black, half are white, half are armed, half are…
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I should hope so! The right thing was done. In the end. Too bad it was even an issue to begin with. This cop did everything right. The important thing isn’t if off-duty cops are drinking, it’s if they do the right thing. It’s one thing if Mothers Against Drug Driving imposes it’s Prohibitionist and…
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The brass is throwing the book at the officers involved in the Sean Bell shooting. What’s so unsatisfying about this, is that such discipline makes cops paranoid, and for good reason. What’s the moral? For police, it’s that if the department wants to get you (if Al Sharpton shouts loud enough), they will. Obviously the…
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