Police
Police are under scrutiny, which is nothing new for the Philadelphia Police Department, although the bug collection known as City Council has not jumped into the Defund Police crazy car. One reason is that Council members (except Allan Domb) accepted personal security from the PPD at a cost of $178,
Police
I admit it. That headline, which once would have tasted as bland as yogurt, has assumed the aura of racism, so I have to explain. I mean good cops. I also like good doctors, teachers, truck drivers, accountants, farmers, even journalists. I don’t like bad ones. But liking cops
Police
When I wrote about defunding police last week, I jumped on it fast because I thought an idea that insane would collapse under its own stupidity. I underestimated the Looney Left. I forgot they pitch their tents in Wonderland, and now the Minneapolis City Council has voted to dismantle the
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It’s not just the season of coronavirus, it’s also the season of apologies, which often are rejected. Starting at home, the high-end Di Bruno Bros. grocery outlets apologized for having made an offer to provide a free lunch for on-duty police officers. Most people thought it to be
Police
The entirely justified national — even international — protests against the death of George Floyd, and ongoing police brutality, has generated an idea as radical as Russian Roulette. And as deadly. The insanity can be found along the left edge of the progressive movement that now shouts three words: Defund the police.
Frank Rizzo
The statue of former Mayor Frank L. Rizzo joins former superstar Kate Smith in ignominy, disappeared by progressives who would whitewash history rather than learn from it. I wrote the following almost three years ago, and present it today, with minor edits to update it. Dispassionate conversation about Frank Rizzo
Looting
There were armed guards on 9th Street, hired by Italian Market merchants. A shotgun-carrying private security guard forced several youths to their bellies outside a big box store they had robbed. The owner of South Philly’s Firing Line shot and killed one of a group of intruders trying to
Police
One good thing — I guess — about the current situation (I mean the widespread violence, not the COVID-19 pandemic) is that it has a lot of people paying attention to the news. But even good things can be carried too far. Around 5:30 Monday, I get a text from my
Jim Kenney
The imaginary mayor’s office at City Hall. The mayor is bent over, sobbing softly into his hands, which are salty from the soft pretzels he has been eating. Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw enters. OUTLAW: Mr. Mayor, what’s wrong? KENNEY: The people of Philadelphia. Why did they do this
Police
The 8 p.m. curfew arrived in Minneapolis, the protestors were on the move, peaceably, according to MSNBC’s Ali Velshi, who was walking with them. The mayor and governor had withdrawn their earlier claims about a heavy out of town presence. Meanwhile, in Atlanta, the curfew passed and the
Police
It wasn’t Minnesota Nice, it was Minnesota Fail. What we saw unfold before our eyes Friday night was proof of the adage that in war — and this is war — plans die when the first shot is fired. In this case, the first shot was a gas canister fired by
Police
I stayed up later than planned Thursday night into Friday morning, watching a mob attack Minneapolis’ 3rd police precinct building. Earlier, at least five officers were seen on the roof, firing flash bangs (loud explosive devices) and tear gas. Sometime before 10 p.m., the mayor ordered police to abandon