Tuesday, April 7th, 2009
158. A pistol-packin' granny caps a would-be mugger in Manhattan and gets sued for her trouble.
159. Puppycide in Buffalo during a police raid that fails to turn up any drugs or make any arrests.
160. Maricopa County (Ariz.) Sheriff Joe Arpaio, no friend of fugitives, illegal immigrants or civil rights, spends ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Radley Balko has an important update on the Ryan Frederick case (# 136).
He cites an unnamed source who claims that a second informant was involved in the break-in of Frederick's home that ultimately led to the deadly no-knock raid:
Last week I received a tip that there may have been a ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
138. The TSA will no longer allow air travelers to fly unless they produce ID . . . or claim they've lost or forgotten it. The world is now that much safer against terrorists who can't lie.
139. A high school principal who wrote a letter in support of Derrick Foster, ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
137. Because the District of Columbia's air-tight gun ban has worked so well in curbing the city's murder rate, the police now plan to set up checkpoints to control access to the most crime-plagued neighborhoods:
D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced a military-style checkpoint yesterday to stop cars this weekend ...
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Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
136. Not surprisingly, Ryan Frederick was indicted by a grand jury yesterday for capital murder:
A Chesapeake grand jury indicted the 28-year-old Portlock man Tuesday on charges of capital murder, use of a firearm during the commission of murder and manufacturing marijuana. Frederick is accused of “willfully, deliberately and premeditatedly” killing ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
135. Washington, D. C. cops crack down on qat users, arresting dozens of people and seizing 30 pounds of the mildly stimulating plant commonly found in Africa and the Middle East.
The next night, seven people are murdered in "a spasm of violence" in the eastern part of the District, bringing ...
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
134. The thin blue line closes ranks around two cops who were shot during a no-knock raid:
The friends who stood up for a man who shot two Columbus officers now are under fire from the local police union.
Derrick Foster, 38, has admitted firing the shots that struck two officers during ...
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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 ...
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