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Dogs, Data, and Dastardly Deeds

Nick Selby and I talk about all this and more on our latest Quality Policing Podcast. Here’s the bad shooting we discuss. It’s not much in the news because there’s no racial angle to it. The officer was criminally charged today. I would say this might be third worst shooting of all time (Walter Scott and Andrew Thomas come to…

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RIP Sean Suiter

Detective Suiter’s funeral was today. I was fine. Until I clicked on this audio. RIP Detective Suiter. EOW 11/16/17 pic.twitter.com/U1rXU6C788 — BmoreBreakingNews (@BaltimoreBNN) November 29, 2017 At least in New York City it’s OK to cry in public. An NYPD friend just told me they don’t have do this in New York. It’s a BPD thing. And I’m proud of…

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Baltimore Officers Cleared

The saga is finally nearly over for the officers involved in the 2015 arrest and deadly transport of Freddie Gray. Today Lt. Brian Rice, the highest ranking officer on scene was cleared of all administrative chargesin relation to the case. Last week Officer Caesar Goodson Jr. was acquitted of all 21 administrative charges. Two other officer agreed to minor discipline…

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RIP Sean Suiter

Baltimore City Detective Sean Suiter was shot and killed two days ago while doing his job. I didn’t know Sean, but he also came up in 1999. He had 18 years on. Were I still a Baltimore Police Officer, that could be me. His killer has not been arrested. After his shooting I glued online to KGA, Baltimore police radio…

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Hello world!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing! Ten years ago a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers…

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Quality Policing Episode 6

A new episode of Quality Policing is out. Check it out. We talk about many things including the DC body cam study that seems to show body cams don’t change anything. We beg to differ. Body cams just don’t change what people think they do. We don’t, however, talk about the details of the dirty gun squad in the Baltimore…

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Cops in Conservative Cities Shoot & Kill More Often

Forbes came out with a list of the 10 most conservative and liberal cities in America. Top ten conservative, in rank order: Mesa Oklahoma City Virginia beach colorado springs Jacksonville Arlington, TX Anaheim Omaha Tulsa Aurora Top ten liberal, in rank order: San Fran DC Seattle Oakland Boston Minneapolis Detroit NYC Buffalo Baltimore I’m not going to argue with the…

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Quality Policing Podcast

Nick Selby and I have a new episode over at qualitypolicing.com. Among other things, we manage to have a rational debate about gun control. Imagine that. It’s Episode Five. (And yet somehow, from two people who claim to be good with numbers, we now have ten episodes.)

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Two-year homicide increase in cities

Now that the UCR data for last year is out, here is the homicide rate increase in cities over 400,000 people. This is two year, 2014-2016. Homicide is up in 40 of the 48 largest cities.

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St. Louis and the acquital of Officer Stockley

So somehow perhaps I thought doing a podcast would be less time consuming or easier than writing a blog post? No. Hell, no. Do you know what editing entails? Even light audio editing? But it’s different. Kind of fun. What the hell. I hope it’s educational (and hopefully also entertaining). Anyway, here’s Nick Selby and I talking about the acquittal…

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