Travis Bickle, He's Not
Aug 29, 2010 5:32 AM
By Rich Shea
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The decomposed body of a California doctor was found lodged in her boyfriend's chimney, several days after she had apparently attempted to get inside his home, police said.
Puppies tossed into river; video spurs outrage
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A video apparently showing a young woman throwing live puppies into a river has sparked outrage across the Internet.
WikiLeaks founder says he's targeted by smear campaign
Aug 22, 2010 11:08 AM
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Blog: Cop In the Hood
911 is a joke
Sep 1, 2010 5:15 PM
So late last night a saw a man (who was not a worker) walking on the elevated subway tracks around a parked subway train. I saw him duck under the train and go to the other side. Perhaps a graffiti guy. But I don't know. I figured he was up to no good. As the poster tell me, I saw something, so I said something.
Blog: Popular Forensics
Travis Bickle, He's Not
Aug 29, 2010 5:32 AM
I love a story like this. Confirms that there's justice in the world. Seems that Jack Clark, a native Chicagoan who didn't graduate college but was smart and talented enough to write for the Chicago Reader, a great alternative weekly newspaper, decided, a couple decades ago, to work full-time as a cabbie. That way, he explains, he wouldn't have to exhaust his intellect. He reserved that privilege for his fiction, which he continued to write no matter how many rejection letters he received.
Blog: Cop In the Hood
Ghetto Mortality
Aug 22, 2010 5:37 PM
In the course of writing Cop in the Hood, I researched what I thought was the bombshell statistic that, conservatively estimated, more than 10 percent of the men in the Eastern District are murdered between the ages of 15 and 35 (pp. 219-220).
Blog: Blown Away
The End Of Lying
Aug 17, 2010 9:08 AM
A new book is out, “Liespotting: Proven Techniques To Detect Deception.” The author, Pamela Meyer, has one of the coolest titles I’ve ever seen — nope, not the Harvard MBA but Certified Fraud Examiner.
Blog: Popular Forensics
Hot and Heavy, Part II
Aug 15, 2010 6:49 AM
My last post kicked off a survey of three films worth considering for viewing during these waning, dog days of summer. And, if you read it, you know I wasn't all that enthusiastic about Antoine Fuqua's latest, Brooklyn's Finest, which, held up side-by-side with Training Day, reveals a once-talented director who might have lost his mojo. (Let's hope not; I think the guy has a gift for storytelling.) This time out, I finish up with the other two films I listed, starting with Coup de Torchon.
Blog: Cop In the Hood
"I feel as though..."
Aug 4, 2010 6:42 PM
These are adopted from my field notes:
Blog: Blown Away
Why Are We So Surprised?
Aug 4, 2010 8:31 AM
The nation is in the wost recession, still, since the Depression. There is a group of workers, what the Bureau of Labor Statistics calls U-6, who have been out of work for six months -- or who have simply given up looking for a new job.
Blog: Rights and Wrongs
One more nail in coffin of the drug war
Aug 1, 2010 6:27 PM
NPR does a piece looking at how Mexico's drug war has far more sophisticated--and far deadlier. The peg was the death of drug lord Ignacio Coronel, but the story has some telling details of just how lost the drug wars have become:
In the Forum
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Aug 11, 2009 6:05 AM
I think it's time to move on.......
Ulrich Boser started a new thread
Jul 29, 2009 8:46 AM
While I'm tired of all the news on the Gates case--see here for my get-some-perspective post--it seems like...
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Jul 21, 2009 4:58 PM
Thanks. I'll take a look....
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