Apparently, iPhone theft is a big enough problem in San Francisco that police have come up with a special solution: ...these cops are taking a different approach than just running after iPhone robbers and cuffing them. Instead, they are going after the buyers of the stolen products, in a scheme that they call “cutting the head off the snake”. San Francisco Police Captain Joe … [Read more...] about Fighting Crime the Easy Way
Archives for April 2013
Here Come the Naked Rescuers
Hallandale Beach Police have got a great job: The police officer lay face down on the massage table, on duty, unarmed and naked.For 30 minutes Shu Yuan Sun worked the muscles of the officer's back, his shoulders and legs, and then told him, "Turn over." And that, said Hallandale Beach Police Sgt. Todd Crevier, is when the crime went down. (Went down, get it?) During one … [Read more...] about Here Come the Naked Rescuers
A Bad Week For Liberty
It's been a rough week for liberty.To begin with, we had two terrorist style attacks, the moderately successful Boston Marathon bombing, and the failed ricin poisoning. I doubt either attack was because "they hate our freedom" (few attacks are) but the attacks themselves are attacks on our freedom. As is often the case, just as the human body's immune system sometimes … [Read more...] about A Bad Week For Liberty
No Comps For the Homeless in Vegas
In an earlier post, I pointed out that not even the most heartless Ayn Rand disciple would go as far as some city governments and make it a crime to feed homeless people. I singled out Las Vegas as an example, citing a report by the ACLU: In 2006, the City of Las Vegas became locked in a bizarre war with homeless advocates, and decided that no one should be engaging in charity … [Read more...] about No Comps For the Homeless in Vegas
More About Talking To a Lawyer When Arrested
A few weeks ago, I wrote about an organization called First Defense Legal Aid that provides legal advice to people arrested or detained by the Chicago Police, just by calling 1-800-LAW-REP-4. Criminal defense lawyer Matt Haiduk (whose blog I quoted in the original post) adds this note in a comment: ...don’t ever think it’s as easy as mentioning you want a lawyer and thinking … [Read more...] about More About Talking To a Lawyer When Arrested