Bookworm on May 25 2010 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Military, Police
Tweet When I was in law school, one of my classmates was a lovely man who had decided to go to law school after several years as a police officer in Oklahoma. I forget the context of our conversation, but he once told me that, in law enforcement, you never shoot to wound. Shooting is [...]
Bookworm on Mar 13 2008 | Filed under: Bureaucracy, Crime and punishment, Police
Tweet I blogged yesterday about law enforcement run amok, in connection with the decision to prosecute a mother who left a sleeping child in the car, while she walked a few feet away — something every mother in the world has done. As you may recall, I was quite heated in expounding upon the idiocy [...]
Bookworm on Sep 19 2007 | Filed under: Iran, Police
Tweet Much cyber-ink was spilled today about Ahmadinejad’s insistence that he visit Ground Zero. The upset, of course, was that we knew he wanted to go there, not to mourn, but to gloat. As it is, the matter was a tempest in a teapot, since his request was denied. (But see the update, below.) Next [...]
Bookworm on Apr 12 2007 | Filed under: Police
Tweet I’ve taken a news story and put the facts in a different order. The story essentially starts with the last point, and organizes the facts based on that point. I’ve put the last point last, because it’s an after-the-fact conclusion that should not color the report. I wonder if you’ll agree with my understand of [...]
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