Showing posts with label police. Show all posts
Showing posts with label police. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Police Killed in Line of Duty

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 Turns out there's a wikipedia pag e for US police killed in line of duty. Quite a contrast with a page for UK police killed. For anyone...
Friday, May 27, 2022

Uvalde Perspectives

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 Megan McArdle tweeted this: I can't say exactly what happened in Uvalde, but having written a book on failure, I'd bet investigatio...
Saturday, April 24, 2021

Changing Our First Responders

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Just saw an interview on Ananpour with Danielle Allen talking about policing, etc. Wasn't paying that much attention, but caught her men...
Friday, April 23, 2021

Policing--a Modest Suggestion

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 Saw a piece on police training in the US today, somewhere.  Apparently there are several problems: with 18,000 organizations there's no...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Looking Forward to Rosa Brooks

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 I really liked Rosa Brooks ' last book,  so I pre-ordered her new one, Tangled Up in Blue, Policing the American City . Haven't sta...
Monday, June 08, 2020

Reboot the Police

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That's my position.  I don't particularly want to reduce funding for police.  History says, I think, that the public overreacts to s...
Sunday, June 07, 2020

Satisfaction With 911 Calls

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What's surprising in this survey is the uniformity in responses across ethnic and gender lines.  Though  that's good, what isn...
Thursday, June 04, 2020

The Police: Now and 1968

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Lots of comparisons between the protests/riots of today and those of 1968. Lots of concerns about police. IIRC in 1968 white liberals thou...