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138. The TSA will no longer allow air travelers to fly unless they produce ID . . . or claim they’ve lost or forgotten it. The world is now that much safer against terrorists who can’t lie.
139. A high school principal who wrote a letter in support of Derrick Foster, who [...]
137. Because the District of Columbia’s air-tight gun ban has worked so well in curbing the city’s murder rate, the police now plan to set up checkpoints to control access to the most crime-plagued neighborhoods:
D.C. Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier announced a military-style checkpoint yesterday to [...]
136. Not surprisingly, Ryan Frederick was indicted by a grand jury yesterday for capital murder:
A Chesapeake grand jury indicted the 28-year-old Portlock man Tuesday on charges of capital murder, use of a firearm during the commission of murder and manufacturing marijuana. Frederick is accused of “willfully, deliberately and premeditatedly” killing Detective [...]
135. Washington, D. C. cops crack down on qat users, arresting dozens of people and seizing 30 pounds of the mildly stimulating plant commonly found in Africa and the Middle East.
The next night, seven people are murdered in “a spasm of violence” in the eastern part of the [...]
134. The thin blue line closes ranks around two cops who were shot during a no-knock raid:
The friends who stood up for a man who shot two Columbus officers now are under fire from the local police union.
Derrick Foster, 38, has admitted firing the shots that struck two officers during a [...]
127. But now, they call it “community policing”: from 1947project‘s always-fascinating social history blog On Bunker Hill, the Los Angeles “Purity Squad” raids the Saratoga Hotel in 1919, arresting 32 people “on charges of living in a house of prostitution.” And some alibis never change:
Many of those arrested [...]
118. A Federal appeals court rules that laptops can be subject to warrantless searches and seizures at customs checkpoints in airports, just as they are allowed at border crossings.
119. Frustrated that drivers arrested for DUI might actually be acquitted, a Tennessee lawmaker is pushing a bill that would [...]
111. The police in Whitewater, Wisc. crack down hard on online bullies – particularly when they’re the target.
112. A-raiding we will go:
Massive sweeps in Tennessee, Mississippi and Arkansas nets hundreds of arrests, 1,300 traffic tickets and some seized cash. All in the name of
103. More isolated incidents: an ATF squad hits the wrong house in Miami, damaging the front door and breaking windows from tear-gas canisters fired into the house. Among the non-criminals in the house were a woman and her 3-year-old son.
104. Hey you damn kids, get off my monument: a group of [...]
97. Our heroic war on drugs:
Two teens are shot by a Howard County, MD police officer during an investigation into suspected drug activity. A couple in Pennsylvania, Steve and Karen Haver, narrowly avoids losing their home after police, while investigating a burglar alarm at their residence, found five [...]
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