I don’t usually agree with The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin, but this is a fairly good article: When local district attorneys investigate local police officers, there is an inherent conflict of interest. In virtually all usual circumstances, police and prosecutors … Continue reading →
Adelaide Laurie is the widow of police officer Rocco Laurie, assassinated in a 1972 ambush along with partner Gregory Foster (I wrote about the incident here). As far as I can tell she has never remarried, although she and her … Continue reading →
I though I’d highlight the following comment, which I found at this article: I have no doubt that if, by some miracle, these two slain officers [Ramos and Liu] had been able to escape their fate by killing this monster … Continue reading →
Paul Cassell lists seven steps Eric Holder should take in the wake of Ferguson, the Garner incident, and the murder of officers Ramos and Liu. I say: dream on, Mr. Cassell. I predict that Holder will not comply with a … Continue reading →
The line between politically motivated killings and mental illness can be a thin one. Absent an obvious problem like untreated schizophrenia featuring delusions, what does a vague history of emotional troubles mean? Not much, really. How many completely well-adjusted people … Continue reading →
Today is the 26th anniversary of the destruction of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard as well as 11 people on the ground. Until 9/11, it had the distinction of … Continue reading →
Most of the coverage of the death of Ismaaiyl Brinsley, the murderer of the two NYC policemen, indicates he killed himself on a subway platform. While this is true, his suicide wasn’t spontaneous. Details that have emerged include the following … Continue reading →
When I read the news of the murder of NYPD Officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu by shooter Ismaaiyl Brinsley as they sat in their police car, it had a sickening familiarity. If you’re as old as I am, and … Continue reading →
Another outrageously evil attack in which Islamist terrorists target children, this time in Pakistan: Militants from the Pakistani Taliban have attacked an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 141 people, 132 of them children, the military say. Officials say the attack … Continue reading →
…with the gunman dead in an early-morning police raid. Unfortunately, two of the hostages are reported to have been killed in the rescue, although there’s a lack of information as yet on how it happened. The gunman was an Islamic … Continue reading →
In my earlier post about the release of the Senate’s Intelligence Committee’s report on harsh interrogation practices under the Bush administration, I characterized the report as a partisan attempt to return to the good old days of Bush-bashing, when Democrats … Continue reading →
There is little question that the Senate Intelligence Committee’s release of a report on harsh interrogation techniques during the Bush era is politically motivated. One way to tell is that Bob Kerrey, Vietnam vet and ex-Senator and governor of Nebraska … Continue reading →