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Elena Kagan vs. Pat Lykos

…the face of hard evidence that the conviction was wrongful, sometimes obtained in honest error, other times obtained through police or prosecutorial misconduct. Which brings me to Pat Lykos, the…

Pattern of misconduct

…misconduct” as it does to personality disorders. Maybe Tx1 can put more context on this new angle of what is a chronic dilemma. Police in the region where I live…

Posse comitatus

The historic importance of the Posse Comitatus prohibition was also well-analyzed here. As the recent militarization of St. Paul during the GOP Convention made abundantly clear, our actual police forces…

Dueling Mooses

…the board of New York City Police Commissioners, age 37. During the two years he held this post, he radically reformed the police department, reputed as one of the most…

Ideology full steam ahead, no questions asked

…has the ability to police markets alone. “Let’s be clear — no single jurisdiction can resolve all the problems of globalization,” said Pierre Delsaux, a senior markets regulator at the…

Peltzman Effect

…fender binders that are never reported to the police. But I have now found two independent sources of data that clearly show that since 1964 when sealtbelts were first required…

Ramadi strategy 2006

…effort, forming a coalition of sheiks who have sent hundreds of their followers to join the Ramadi police force as well as the Iraqi army. The Ramadi strategy, which in…

The Washington Post carried an article by General Patreaus in 2004. Still the optomist. Nonetheless, there are reasons for optimism. Today approximately 164,000 Iraqi police and soldiers (of which about…

…One day after she was fired, former U.S. Park Police Chief Teresa Chambers accused the Bush administration Saturday of silencing dissenting views in the rank and file…Chambers said that she…