Respecting The Police?
In these interesting—as in the ancient Chinese curse—times it is becoming a matter of public faith that America’s police are …
Category Archives: Courts and Cops
The Justine Damond Case, Update #8: The Challenge Of Culture
In the cosmic irony category, former Minneapolis Police Chief Janee Harteau was recently honored. The Sydney Morning Herald reports: Ms …
The Justine Damond Case, Update 7.4: Police Searching Police
In Update 7.2: All Fished Out, I explained, in some detail, the substantial problems with one of the two search …
The Justine Damond Case, Update 7.3: Rights and Responsibilities
It is easy, when one has extensive experience in a given profession, to take some things for granted. Particularly in …
Policing: The Great Missouri Tomato Raid
It is fashionable these days to broadly attack “the police,” as though police agencies are monolithic, walking in lockstep, working …
The Justine Damond Case, Update #7.2: All Fished Out
In Update 7: The BCA–Gone Fishin’, I wrote of the apparent problems in two search warrants served by the BCA the …
The Justine Damond Case, Update #7: The BCA–Gone Fishin’
There are no new, definitive developments in the Justine Damond shooting, though a number of news reports suggest the current …
Police IQ 2
In September of 2014, I wrote an article titled Police IQ, which was a discussion about trends in police hiring, …
The Justine Damond Case, #6: Transforming Policing, Demonstrating Allegiance
I’m only upset because I didn’t think of it. Several of these signs were posted, professionally, around the Twin Cities. …
The Justine Damond Case, Update 5: Transforming Policing
As I’ve previously noted, establishing an accurate time frame is absolutely essential to any police involved shooting investigation. The Minneapolis …
The Justine Damond Case, Update 4: Political Damage
Barack Obama caused a great deal of damage. Much of that damage is only now becoming apparent, and more will …
The Justine Damond Case, Update 3: Deadly Force, Deadly Mistake
For the time being, the initial deluge of new information in this case seems to have slowed, which is generally …
The Justine Damond Case, Update 2: Police Panic
As expected, additional information in the Justine Damond case is rapidly coming to light. Let me, however, caution you yet …
The Justine Damond Case, #1: Tribal Politics
As regular readers know, I often write on police misconduct, or accusations of the same. In reporting on such things, …
