Troop Surge January 3, 2008
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NY police credit rookies for declining murder rate
A 5-year-old program that sends rookie police officers to crime hot spots in New York City has helped the city achieve the lowest murder rate in 45 years and will be doubled in size in 2008, police officials say.
New York police said there were 494 homicides last year, down from 596 in 2006 and the lowest since 548 in 1963 when the city began keeping records of the total number of murders.
When asked last week if there was a single reason for the decline in crime, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly cited Operation Impact, which sends rookie police officers to narrowly defined areas that have suffered from high crime, some no larger than a housing project or a shopping corridor.
This month, all 914 members of the most recent police academy class will join the program, bringing the size of Operation Impact to more than 1,800 officers.
“You might have a high crime precinct, but the crime might be confined to a relatively small part of the precinct,” said police spokesman Paul Browne. “It’s important to put the boots on the ground and to increase police visibility dramatically.”
But the decision to dispatch the least experienced officers on the most difficult assignments has given ammunition to watchdog groups that have accused the NYPD of harassing blacks and Hispanics in low-income neighborhoods.
In other words, those critics of the NYPD are just as much equating murder and violent crime with blacks and Hispanics as this medium does.
“What They’re Capable Of” January 3, 2008
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AP:
BOSTON - One juror, a white woman, was trying to convince the others that the murder victim had been bruised during a struggle, not during consensual sex with the defendant. Bruises like those, the juror supposedly said, can happen “when a big black guy beats up on a small woman.”
Another juror, a black woman, took offense and accused her of racism. Things got so heated that the two women had to be separated.
Now, more than a year after the defendant, a black garbage man, was convicted of stabbing to death a white fashion writer on Cape Cod, the judge has taken the highly unusual step of summoning the entire jury back to court next week to testify publicly about whether racism infected the deliberations.
Depending on what he finds out, the judge could order a new trial.
Questioning jurors in open court about their deliberations after a verdict is extremely rare. Jury deliberations are considered almost sacrosanct.
“It’s extraordinary,” said Jonathan Turley, a law professor at George Washington University, who warned that forcing jurors to testify could have a chilling effect.
Yes, but if you live in a place where racial diversity and equality is considered the highest virtue, then a lot of things that are “sacrosanct” have to be thrown out.
Christopher McCowen, 34, was convicted in November 2006 in the rape and fatal stabbing of Christa Worthington, 46, a writer who had covered fashion in New York and Paris before moving to the small town of Truro.
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Within days, three jurors — including the one who was removed — contacted McCowen’s lawyer and claimed to have heard racially biased remarks from three other jurors, including one white woman who allegedly referred to McCowen as “the big black guy” and said she was afraid of him. One of the jurors also claimed a dark-skinned man of Cape Verdean descent said that he had been raised by white people and that he did not like blacks and “what they are capable of.”
Obviously, Mr. McCowen’s defense attorneys are going to do everything in their power to prevent their client from being sent to prison. However, two should be able to play at this game — if defense attorneys can sully the work of an entire jury based on some racial (but not overtly bigoted) statements of a few jurors, then prosecutors should also be able to have mistrials declared when black juries refuse to convict black defendants for racial reasons, and the black jurors who want to acquit threaten white jurors who want to convict, and/or utter anti-white racial obscenities in the jury room.
Because We Just Got Through Celebrating a Holiday That Observes the Birth of “Christ,” Not “Common” January 3, 2008
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Missouri State Sen. John Loudon (R-St. Louis County) has introduced the bill that would require the state to use the initials “A.D.” and “B.C.” in official documents referring to years that require those monikers. The reason for this bill is to head off the anti-Christian nitwits and the PC Taliban that wants to change those initials to “CE” (Common Era) and “BCE” (Before Common Era), to expunge any mention of a certain religious figure.
When I was in college, certain history professors required the use of CE/BCE and prohibited the use of AD/BC, though I was lucky enough never to have any that did. Also, this article informs us that, according to Sen. Loudon, NASA has gone nitwit and made that change. Here’s some evidence that they have.
No More Domino’s Pizza For Me January 3, 2008
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Remember the pizza delivering hero from last week? If he had followed Domino’s policy, he probably would be dead today.
It’s not as if I was ever going to order pizza from Domino’s anyway — the last time I did, which was almost a decade ago, the pizza was cold and full of bugs.
Employees sign an agreement in which they agree not to carry a weapon, Domino’s corporate spokesman Tim McIntyre said, a policy designed to protect both the public and employees …. (snip) …. Domino’s trains employees to minimize their risk, both before and during a robbery, McIntyre said.
Doesn’t sound like it protects the employees very well. If they’re trained to “minimize their risk before a robbery” in that way, they won’t be here after the robbery. Otherwise, redlining is the only solution.
