I’ve mentioned before that a big part of my reading, as I try to understand (and subsequently relay) a piece of the bigger picture behind the people involved in the criminal justice system, involves Cop Blogs. Some are funny and smart and insightful, some are racist and loathsome and offensive – well, sure. Cops are […]
There’s lots of interesting stuff up on the Internet right now. I highly recommend taking a look at these articles and posts from all over: 3 Years And 14 Days to Justice | Florida criminal defense attorney Brian Tannenbaum usually blogs about the law in a more theoretical or philosophical way, rather than a personal […]
Consumerist.com pointed to this article from the Chicago Sun-Times about how stoked the police get when they find an iPhone as evidence in a case over the weekend: “When you hit the delete button, it’s never really deleted,” [Detective] Fazio said. The devices can help police learn where you’ve been, what you were doing there […]
After that cranky rant, I feel I ought to mellow out a little bit. Here’s Matt Taibbi’s advice to professional athletes who plan to end up in the criminal justice system. An excerpt: If you get caught in any kind of drug/illegal-substance scandal, even if the drugs are on you, it doesn’t matter: They belonged […]
I came in to the office a couple of hours early today, since I had to drop my wife off at the jail, where she teaches theater to incarcerated women. I spent the next several hours researching more instances of what Radley Balko (who’s done a yeoman’s work on the subject) deems “puppycide” – watching […]
That picture up there, that’s my dog. His name is Dio. He’s a Siberian Husky, maybe mixed with something else – he’s smaller than most huskies (though still within breed guidelines) and exhibits standard husky behavior: He’s playful, especially with other dogs, likes to roughhouse at the dog park. He’s really affectionate, most of the […]
I can’t remember who it was, but someone, I think a law blogger, was talking about a hypothetical run for office. If elected, he’d require all lawmakers to spend a week in jail. Just so they’d know what the experience was like before creating circumstances in which other people would have to go through it. […]
My back hurts. So do my shoulders. And my lats, if I properly describing the muscles on the side of my lower back. From 7:00 a.m. Saturday morning to 8:30 p.m Saturday night I worked out at the ranch changing the thermostat on the work truck, hauling lumber, and finishing the kids’ treehouse / play fort. […]
Via Radley Balko’s The Agitator, we get word that a 20 year old woman (in a neck brace) named Melissa Greenfield has pled no contest to obstruction charges after refusing to put away her cell phone gun camera while a police officer questioned her boyfriend. Well, there are lots of blogs eager to make fun […]
Sarcasm is the drug of choice of the Internet, and it’s beloved by vaguely immature bloggers like myself. Usually, more grown-up bloggers like Scott Henson at Grits For Breakfast tend to eschew the stuff in favor of “facts” and “well-sourced opinions” and “probing questions”, however, and that’s cool, too. It’s a big Internet, and there’s […]