I predict this post regarding the “new trend in police accountability” may be controversial. Holding cops accountable riles a lot of people, for some reason. Too many just find questioning police to be “wrong.”
I wanted to write a response
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Recording? What Recording?
This post about a news report of a “lost recording” constitutes the inauguration of a new type of post here: Short Snippets.
Some things are just too focused and obvious to require a 2,500 word blog post.
Court Loses Recording
Fighting The Stacked Deck
One of the hard parts of defending people is knowing the hard parts of defending people, because when it comes down to it, the deck is stacked. And the stacked deck does not favor people accused of crimes.
The system,
Alabama Purge
In 2013, James DeMonaco riffed off an old Star Trek episode to come up with “The Purge,” a dystopian movie about a seemingly “law and order,” crime-free America — crime-free because once a year, all crime was legal, including murder
The Thin Blue Skin
Some people believe criticizing cops is a constitutionally-protected activity in a constitutional republic like the United States of America. And, technically, they’re right. But too many don’t take into account the power of the thin blue skin.
Constitutional protection doesn’t
Crime Goes Viral
UPDATE: A Capitol police officer has died as a result of the insurrectcionists’ activities. This alters whether justifiable force was used on Ashli Babbitt. (See below.)
When I first heard of GoFundMe, I thought about how to use it to
Dammit, Jim! I’m Engineer, Which Makes Me a Doctor
I’m going to tell you right now: this is a rant. It’s about some young punk kid who — appearing to be fresh out of his first or second year of college, at best — says he’s an “engineer,” which
Tulare County Suspends Trials
Tulare County Superior Court — not known for its lack of redneck law-and-order anti-science mentality — goes where Fresno fears to tread. It seems Tulare County judges have decided survival is more important even than railroading people into prison. They
The Herd Mentality
The herd mentality. Oy.
Although I have strong political opinions, and I used to blog about them regularly on a website I created called Unspun, I don’t like doing strictly political rants here. And I’m not really going to break
Totality of the Circus Dances
I have been working on a suppression motion the last week, so naturally, I keep running up against the “Totality of the Circumstances” doctrine, which, when you dig in, is really a Totality of the Circus Dances. The only real