I was driving home from a trip to the grocery store this morning when I spotted my local Chicago Police beat car ahead of me, and I noticed he had a curious bumper sticker, on which I could make out the letters "YPOSHOT". When I got a little closer, I could see a message about a $10,000 reward for information about anyone shooting at a Chicago police officer, which you could … [Read more...] about YPO-SHOT
Scattershot 2014-01-24
Random shots around the web...After reading the harsh conclusion Scott Greenfield reaches in his response to the Pinal County Sheriff's department's shooting of Manuel Longoria as he was surrendering with his hands in the air, I had this running through my head: When they kick out your front door How you gonna come? With your hands on your head Or on the trigger of your … [Read more...] about Scattershot 2014-01-24
A Challenge for Prosecutors
Over at Crime and Consequences, Kent Scheidegger writes about one of the philosophical problems with the exclusionary rule: For many years, the U.S. Supreme Court has been pruning back one of the most repugnant notions of criminal procedure -- the idea that a clearly guilty criminal can suppress rock-solid reliable evidence of his crime on the basis of how it was obtained. If … [Read more...] about A Challenge for Prosecutors
Why I Don’t Debate Evolution
My sometimes co-blogger Ken and I often discuss the whole evolution-v.s.-creationism issue, and I've tried a few times to explain to him why I don't write about it much here. I occasionally discuss or speculate about some basic evolutionary science, and I've slammed some really idiotic creationist nonsense, but I just don't want to get into a debate about it.I got to … [Read more...] about Why I Don’t Debate Evolution
We Talk to Cops All the Time…
Over at Popehat, Ken White has another of his posts explaining that the most important thing you can do when talking with cops is to stop: One of the most consistent messages I offer here is about interactions with law enforcement, and can be expressed in two words — shut up — although "oh you dumb son of a bitch will you for the love of God shut up" might capture the flavor … [Read more...] about We Talk to Cops All the Time…