March 25th, 2008

Inner cities, underpolicing and Iraq

  • Mar. 25th, 2008 at 12:05 AM
Phoenix
http://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/dskeel/archives/2008/03/race_and_crimestuntz.html

Article argues that inner cities get too much drug enforcement policing and not nearly enough violent crime policing -- clearance rate for violent crimes there being much lower than in white suburbs. Makes brief analogy to the "boots on the ground" and surge policies in Iraq; brings up lack of local control of police and prosecutors.

Comments bring up other factors, like "no snitch" culture in the neighborhoods; cause and effect between police ineffectiveness and local distrust of police might be entangled.

Radfem analysis of Firefly

  • Mar. 25th, 2008 at 4:48 PM
lizsword
Aka "Inara is raped! Zoe is raped! Kaylee is raped! Joss's wife is raped!"

Ah, radicals. Giving feminism a bad name since (insert year here).

From James Nicoll; funny comment here.

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