Reddit, Accountability, Law Enforcement, and Uvalde
The verified law enforcement officers of these very communities are very much presenting an opposing unified front
Tagged: law enforcement
Hollywood: Time to Use Your Superpower for Good Again
Hollywood has used two tropes to ramp up the action and suspense in movies: gun violence and the “lone wolf” law enforcement officials
Not An Escalation of Trumpism, An Acceleration of Consequences
As long as Trump commands the base, Trumpism will become the face of a once respectable, sorely missed conservative party.
How Tan Was My MRAP
With police accountability very much in question, the easy and flippant lip service of “at no cost” and “find a way to use it” are grossly irresponsible
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Fire, Fury, and Frustration Edition
Every time we do this, folks will insist “This is the moment…” that everything is going to be different. God I hope it is. I pray it is. I doubt it is.
The Turning of the Narrative
Don’t let police and their supports deflect from the death of George Floyd.
Crooked Cops, Judge Dredd, and Arkham Origins
Jaybird and I discuss the latest installment in Warner Brothers Studios’ acclaimed Batman video game series: Arkham Origins.
For The Cold Case Files
Does the Fourth Amendment allow law enforcement to gather an arrestee’s genetic sequence and compare it with a large FBI database of genetic material gathered from old, unsolved crimes? [Continued at NaPP]
The war on barbershops
Yet another example of our ludicrous economic policies mixing it up with our ludicrous law enforcement policies: As many as 14 armed Orange County deputies, including narcotics agents, stormed Strictly Skillz barbershop during business...
De-Prioritizing Drug Law Enforcement
The disturbing video of the puppycide SWAT raid in Missouri has, not surprisingly, generated a lot of discussion in short order. One of the things I argued in my original post was that the...
Feds no longer busting sick people for medical marijuana use
Well, I don’t know how we missed posting on this yesterday, but Obama has done something very, very right by calling off the Feds in states where medicinal marijuana use is permitted. In terms...
Slippery Slopes
Andrew Sullivan’s dissection of one Boston cop’s overtly racist response to the Gates arrest is worth reading in full, but this part caught my eye: And the more you read, the more you realize...
Due Deference
[updated below] National Review’s obnoxious (and predictable) response to the mistaken arrest of a black Harvard professor has been to publish this truly remarkable post from Roger Clegg: Even if race played some role...
