The fourth in a series from Adam Plantinga’s excellent 400 Things Cops Know: Street-Smart Lessons from a Veteran Patrolman: As a cop, it’s easy to get discouraged about the state of today’s youth. You don’t see much of the honors student bound for Dartmouth, because she doesn’t do anything that would cause her to come…
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With regards to the killing of Jersey City Police Officer Melvin Santiago, Fox News TV reporter Sean Bergin no longer has a job after editorializing on-air: It’s important to shine a light on this racist mentality that has so contaminated policing and America’s inner-cities. … The underlying cause for all of this, of course, is…
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In my partial blog-writing absence (though in case you’re worried, all is well here in Astoria, Queens, post storm — we’re high and dry and with electricity) I wanted to feature a few promising up-and-coming researchers I’m excited about. The first of the young-upstart rising-star whipper-snappers is Jan Haldipur (his email). Jan, an ethnographer from…
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