It’s really unclear to me how there could be such discrepancy between a jury and the police investigation. What it tells me is that there is no police investigation.
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18 February 2012
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7 February 2012
The Bureau quotes several experts stating the obvious: that targeting rescuers and funeral attendees is patently illegal and almost certainly constitutes war crimes.
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27 January 2012
Adding Neighborhood 20 MPH Zones Isn’t a Zero-Sum Game
But if Park Slope gets a slow zone before Greenwood Heights, or if Greenwood Heights gets a slow zone before Park Slope, research suggests both neighborhoods will still be better off.
Streetsblog and the New Yorker are debunking the same bad assumptions this week. Whether it’s speeding in a car, or mugging, or selling bad investments, preventing a crime from happening does not mean it will just happen somewhere else.
Crime and traffic are not “like water”, as sometimes claimed. If you make speeding and robbery difficult, people will do less of those things.
Water has different properties.
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26 January 2012
The Caging of America
The logic is self-evident if we just transfer it to the realm of white-collar crime: we easily accept that there is no net sum of white-collar crime waiting to happen, no inscrutable generation of super-predators produced by Dewar’s-guzzling dads and scaly M.B.A. profs; if you stop an embezzlement scheme here on Third Avenue, another doesn’t naturally start in the next office building. White-collar crime happens through an intersection of pathology and opportunity; getting the S.E.C. busy ending the opportunity is a good way to limit the range of the pathology.
And unfortunately the logic is only used to keep white collar criminals out of jail.
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7 December 2011
NPR’s domestic drone commercial
Orlando’s police department originally requested two drones to use for security at next year’s GOP convention, only to change their minds for budgetary reasons.
Naturally the only thing to balance the horrible death robot future/present our weird illegitimate government has chosen for us is the fact that they are flat broke.
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22 September 2011
In a common law society it is incumbent that the legislature reacts swiftly to decisions that do not represent the intent or spirit of the legislation that the Court purports to interpret. That does not really happen here with the speed necessary to be effective.
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8 September 2011
That this death-cheering comes from a party that relentlessly touts itself as ‘pro-life’ and derides the other as The Party of Death — and loves to condemn Islam (in contrast to its war-loving self) as a death-glorifying cult — only adds a layer of dark irony.
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31 August 2011
Alston’s letter reveals that a US airstrike was launched on the house presumably to destroy the evidence
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9 July 2011
The Dershowitz family, and the public who uses New York City streets every day, deserve to know exactly what happened.
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1 July 2011
84th Precinct Police Blotter – 6/29/11
An altercation at a check cashing spot on Schermerhorn St. ended with a 5-year-old getting pepper sprayed.
Home sweet home!
