You have to ignore the statistics about the lifespan of a police officer/firefighter/military member. Reading about those statistics do you no good.
White men have several lives when it comes to dealing with the police.
(Chicago Tribune) — When Chicago police release crime statistics for 2010 after the end of the year, violence is expected to be down across the city — even in the face of a major hiring slowdown of rank-and-file officers. The decline might suggest public safety won’t be one of the major headaches facing Mayor Richard Daley’s successor, […]
(Chicago Sun Times) — Lewis A. Jordan, CEO of the Chicago Housing Authority, has a Chicago Police security detail — a fact police had refused to disclose but the CHA confirmed Monday after a Chicago Sun-Times report about the costs of protecting public officials. Personal police protection for Jordan and his predecessors dates to 1999, […]
(Wall Street Journal) — The New York Police Department on Monday begins posting data on citywide misdemeanor crime complaints dating back 10 years, partly in response to claims that withholding such statistics indicated it had something to hide, officials said. Academicians and journalists suspicious of the veracity of the NYPD’s long-shrinking total of “index crimes”—murders, […]
(New York Times) — The New York Times has sued the New York Police Department, saying the department had routinely violated a state law that requires government agencies to provide information to the press and the public. In a lawsuit filed on Tuesday in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, The Times described four requests made by […]
A law lessening jail time was passed in August yet prosecution persists under the old rules.
(Corrections) — Pretty bad. From 1987 to 2007, the U.S. prison population nearly tripled.[1] The American prison population in 2004 was eight times larger than it was in 1954.[2] In 2008, it was 40 times greater than it was in 1904.[3] On a per capita basis, there were 15 times more sentenced prisoners in 2008 […]
(Washington Post) — The Justice Department has closed its investigation into allegations of discrimination at Hyattsville’s police department, determining that there were no widespread practices that violated employees’ civil rights, city and NAACP officials said Tuesday.The investigation began this year after the Montgomery County and Prince George’s County chapters of the NAACP asked federal authorities to […]
(Black America News) — Officers with the Orange County Sheriff’s Office raided some 40 barber shops in black and Latino neighborhoods between August and September. Rather than go through the trouble of obtaining search warrants, they tagged along with inspectors from the Department of Business and Professional Regulation to enter the shops. To hear the […]
In one of Katrina's most gruesome chapters, Henry Glover was shot and set on fire.