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Policing is a Contact Sport
(Part II)
POSTED 8/26/11 -- During the early morning hours of Saturday, August 6, University of Cincinnati campus police were summoned to a fight in a residence hall. That’s where they ran into Everett Howard. More
False Confessions Don’t
Just “Happen”
POSTED 8/12/11 -- Forget C.S.I. Confession is the grease that keeps the wheels of American justice turning. Really, it’s hard to imagine how our bursting-at-the-seams criminal justice system could function without it...More
Rush to Judgment (Part II)
POSTED 7/29/11 -- Coming only three weeks after asserting that LAPD “absolutely” had the responsible party, Chief Charlie Beck’s explanation that “we would have been derelict had we not made the arrest”...More
“Teaching” Police Departments?
That’s Right, Teaching
POSTED 7/15/11 -- The 2011 NIJ Conference was full of surprises, most good, a few not so much. But of the sessions attended by your blogger, none proved a bigger head-scratcher than “Teaching Rounds in Police Departments,” which promoted the notion...More
Translational?
That’s Right, Translational
POSTED 7/1/11 -- Translational? Um, what’s that? It’s criminology’s new direction, that’s what. More
The Church, Absolved
POSTED 5/23/11 -- “Predictably and conveniently, the bishops have funded a report that tells them precisely what they want to hear: it was all unforeseeable, long ago, wasn’t that bad and wasn’t their fault.” More
Physician, Heal Thyself
POSTED 5/8/11 -- Did Michael Jackson commit suicide? Improbable as it might seem, that’s essentially the theory being advanced by the legal team representing Dr. Conrad Murray, the physician who...More
Time or Money
POSTED 4/24/11 -- During the evening hours of March 1, 2011 a Cleveland police sergeant was working off duty directing traffic in front of a downtown parking garage. An SUV exiting the garage made an...More
The Long Arm of the Law
POSTED 4/10/11 -- By all accounts Victor Bout was a self-made man. And when the Soviet Union fell the energetic Russian entrepreneur spied a great opportunity. More
Risky Business
POSTED 3/27/11 -- Aggressive policing is back in style. With support from NIJ and university-based researchers, police departments across the U.S. have implemented a variety of hard-hitting....More
Letting Guns Walk
POSTED 3/13/11 -- “If you’re going to make an omelette, you’ve got to break some eggs.” That, said ATF special agent John Dodson, was his agency’s excuse for allowing more than 1,700 firearms...More
A Dangerous Loser
POSTED 3/4/11 -- On February 24 FBI agents in Lubbock, Texas arrested Ali-M Aldawsari for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction, a crime that could land him in prison for life. More
Having Your Cake, and Eating it Too!
POSTED 2/18/11 -- In these days of shrinking budgets who wouldn’t want to take a bite out of crime while reducing prison populations at the same time? More
Which Way, C.J.?
POSTED 2/3/11 -- Normally we avoid quoting at length, but in this case it seems appropriate to let John Jay College’s Evan Mandery and David Kennedy have their uninterrupted say. More
First, do no Harm
POSTED 1/18/11 -- It’s noon on Martin Luther King day, January 17, 2011. While on routine patrol you observe a man sleeping on the sidewalk...More
Absolute Power
Corrupts Absolutely
POSTED 1/4/11 -- “This is wrong, that’s why they did it on the last day, so they wouldn’t have to answer to anybody. More
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