They Don’t Want To Know About Questionable, Problematic Testimony
May 21, 2015
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“Each step of the officers’ story defies credibility… flagrant misconduct… evasive and contradictory testimony… questionable, problematic testimony… tailored to overcome constitutional objection… complete fabrication…… patently inc
Continue Reading →The Police Officer’s Family is the Police Department
May 11, 2015
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Did you have a chance to see this article in the NY Times? The articles says that the involvement of Police Officer Clarence Habersham in the shooting of Walter Scott in North Charleston, South Carolina interferes with the racial narrative of white police officers brutalizing black c
Continue Reading →Hey Commissioner Bratton! Read “Equal Justice Under Law” in Wikipedia!
March 24, 2015
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By now many of you have read about the unnamed police officers who changed the Wikipedia entries of a few of the most notorious police killings of unarmed civilians to rewrite history and blame the victims. It was an unprofessional and stupid thing to do. What’s alarming, however, is
Continue Reading →Mayor de Blasio’s Weak Prescription for Rikers Island Violence Sickness, Part 1: “Huh?”
March 13, 2015
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio held a big press conference on Rikers Island today to announce new strategies to curb violence in city jails. Reading his “14 point plan”, two thoughts come immediately to mind, they are 1) “huh?” and 2) “duh.” T
Continue Reading →Community Policing: Is the Past the future?
March 06, 2015
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The idyll of police officers walking the beat is the stuff of Norman Rockwell paintings and Barney the Dinosaur episodes. duramectin ivermectin paste 1.87% for horses Officers helping a little kid tie his shoe, or helpfully advising a local tough to buckle down on his homework is th
Continue Reading →Ferguson Newsflash
December 16, 2014
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The Latest News from Ferguson White liberals tend to recoil from images of rioting like those we’re seeing from Ferguson. Too messy and violent, out of line with their understanding of civil disobedience. But the Ferguson rage is a street level, intuitive expression of a legal and p
Continue Reading →“Ignorance of the Law is no Excuse”… Except for Law Enforcement
December 16, 2014
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It’s a well-known maxim and words to live by. As a citizen, not knowing that you can’t carry around your Dad’s Percocet prescription isn’t a defense. The law is the law, and your ignorance of it comes with great risk. Caught, and you’re screwed, end of story. One might think that l
Continue Reading →The Importance of Being an Inside Outsider
June 04, 2014
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A recent alleged scandal has broken involving charges that Judge Barry Kamins, the chief administrator of the New York City Criminal Court and chief of planning and policy for the state courts, was serving as unofficial political consultant to then District Attorney Charles Hynes. It
Continue Reading →Wrongful Convictions and the Hidden Costs of a Police State
May 21, 2014
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Yesterday the New York City Council held hearings with the six district attorneys from New York City (one for each borough, plus the Special Narcotics Prosecutor). The hearings related to budgetary considerations and the needs of each office. Ken Thompson, our new Brooklyn District
Continue Reading →New York’s High Court Gets Real
May 16, 2014
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New York’s highest court, the Court of Appeals, has issued a series of decisions recently that indicate a real understanding of the way the law works on the ground, for the people most directly impacted by it. Most important to our practice is the Court’s ruling this week
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