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Cops crashing cars on purpose
I was looking through recent episodes of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” and saw he did a segment that focused on a series I helped edit when I worked at the San Francisco Chronicle: The award-winning Chronicle series looked at the phenomenon of police chases well beyond the borders of the Bay Area and…
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Louisville cops flag immigrants through license plate reader
The whole theme of the George Orwell novel “1984” is “Big Brother Is Watching You.” Louisville cops are taking on the role of Big Brother, as you can see from the photo above (From Louisville Public Media): Law enforcement across the U.S. are sifting through a Louisville Metro Police Department database of vehicles captured by…
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‘You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means’
From the Courier Journal: More than four years after the U.S. Department of Justice launched a wide-ranging investigation into the Louisville Metro Police Department that led to the signing of a police reform consent decree, the federal government is abandoning its reform efforts, calling into question the future of the plan that would add oversight to the…
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Film critique: Remember when assholes were cool?
This clip showed up in my YouTube feed yesterday: This was totally cool when I first saw “Bullitt” when it came out in 1968: cool guy, cool car, super cool chase. Now that I’m old with children and grandchildren, it hits me: What the hell was the city of San Francisco thinking when it allowed…
