Clunkers, cops and cluelessness.

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

Attorney General Eric Holder has clarified the new administration's medical marijuana policy (see #145) by stating that the DEA will only go after pot dealers who violate both state and Federal law; i.e., anyone not sanctioned by a state where medical marijuana is legal.  So dispensaries in California and patients ...

Abuse, harassment, and customer service (but I repeat myself)

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

143. Homer, Louisiana police chief Russell Mills, after one of his officers shot and killed a 73-year-old mute black man: "If I see three or four young black men walking down the street, I have to stop them and check their names," said Mills, who is white. "I want them to ...

Purity squads, then and now.

Thursday, May 8th, 2008

127. But now, they call it "community policing": from 1947project's always-fascinating social history blog On Bunker Hill, the Los Angeles "Purity Squad" raids the Saratoga Hotel in 1919, arresting 32 people "on charges of living in a house of prostitution." And some alibis never change: Many of those arrested said ...