Year: 2014
An Unfortunate Message For Police
Radley Balko reports with some astonishment that a grand jury in Burleson County, Texas has refused to indict a man who shot and killed a police officer who was conducting a SWAT-style raid on his home: Last December 19th, nine of the 10 members of the Burleson County Sheriff’s Department staged a raid on the… Read more
I Have Got to Start Writing Shorter Posts
It just feels like way too many of my posts are really long, including several that are in the pipeline. I have got to start writing more short posts. That is all. Read more
Sources and Credit
Scott Greenfield is a little peeved that reporters don’t give credit when they pick up stories from bloggers: For many years, mainstream media got a lot of juice as a result of links from the web, from blogs. We would see a story and pick it up, run with it, comment on it, and people… Read more
Thane Rosenbaum Wants Us to Stop Being Mean…Or Else
Thane Rosenbaum has an opinion piece at the Daily Beast arguing that we should suppress the rights of Neo-Nazis and others to spout “hate speech.” That’s a common and well-meaning proposition, however misguided, but his reasoning for why we should have these laws is dangerously overbroad. Let me start, however, by pointing out that the… Read more
Scattershot 2014-02-01
Random shots around the web: Matt Brown has a lot more background information about the cop who shot a surrendering man in the back and about the leadership in Pinal County that make it likely he’ll get away with it. Norm DeGuerre has a very good essay describing the mismatch between how the justice system… Read more