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This will end my trilogy about police, with local reporting I have done on the Philadelphia Police Department, which has been investigated many times and been under different consent decrees. In 2015, after a Department of Justice study requested by Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey, we learned Philly cops may be
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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,
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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
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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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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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About six weeks after Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw announced the wrong-headed policy that Philadelphia cops would not arrest and take into custody suspects in low-level crimes, it has been reversed. Want to guess why? Because the low-level criminals knew there would be no consequences and they starting running wild, shoplifting
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Stop-and-frisk. Hot topic and getting hotter. Three things to know: 1- It has been around forever. 2- When done properly, it is constitutional. 3- It is hard to do it right. On the national stage, Mike Bloomberg is getting hammered for New York City’s former s&f policy,