I’m working on a quite serious case involving an innocent man accused of things he could not possibly have done. This impacts my ability to write the type of blog entry I prefer. On the other hand, I ...
Look, we don’t see eye to eye. I get that. You have your view of the world; I have mine. And our jobs require us to be key components in an adversarial system. And even though it’s sometimes fun, or ...
Believing that law enforcement officers are good guys is one of the linchpins of our society; probably of all societies, even where they don’t officially call them “law enforcement” officers. But to ...
When I was a kid, we sometimes got into fights. Occasionally, we got into rock fights. Now rock fights can be pretty dangerous things. After all, even a one- or two-pound solid projectile, properly ...
Almost two weeks ago, I noted that former-accused-statutory-rapist -turned-police-chief Jerry Dyer had seen the light: after some of the officers on his crack team of — wait, that won’t work… — after ...
On page one of today’s San Francisco Chronicle, above the fold, is another article concerning California’s prisons. If I did the math right, California’s prisons hold 7.2% of the nation’s prisoners, ...