Cop Flash Bangs Are Bad For Babies . . . or maybe not.
On the afternoon of January 10, 2024, more than 20 police officers in tactical gear carrying long arms and deploying flash bangs served a search warrant in Elyria, Ohio. Sure … the usual stuff. You know. The guy the police were looking for hadn’t lived at the residence the cops trashed for more than a…
A Man in Las Vegas Tries to Kill the Judge Who Sentences Him for a Crime of Violence
Serge often observes that America is declining into anarchy. Clarke is sometimes pessimistic. Serge and Clarke bring their inclinations to the story of a young man who jumped the bench in a Las Vegas courtroom and beat up the judge who was sentencing him to prison for beating up a person with a baseball bat.…
Maryland Police Claim Constitutional Protection for Juveniles Makes Their Job Harder
Almost six decades after the United States Supreme Court’s landmark Miranda decision, police administrators in Maryland are claiming that a 2022 Maryland law that requires police to adhere to Miranda during juvenile arrests is making their job more difficult. In a now familiar whine, our state and local governments blame their inability to fight crime…
The Baltimore Police Commissioner Orders Every Officer to Empathy Instruction.
Police Commissioner Worley has implemented 8 hours of empathy instruction for every Baltimore Police Officer. In this episode, Serge and Clarke discuss the instructions. Serge begins with the valid premise that it is a good idea for victims of trauma — like most police officers and many Baltimoreans–to learn to understand. On his part, Clarke…
Mayor v ATF: Who cares who wins we just want to see a lot of hits!
This week, the Mayor of Baltimore filed suit in federal court against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. It turns out that ATF sends gun trace information to the Police Commissioner but does not send the same information to the Mayor. Rather than figure a workaround, the Mayor — represented by Everytown Law…
The Dust Settles on Sexual Assault Forensic Examinations.
For three decades, the United States Congress has passed laws to fund forensic examinations in sexual assault cases. But it doesn’t seem to matter. The country is awash in untested rape kits while repetitive sex offenders continue to violate. In fact, Maryland leads the nation in rape kit backlogs at the forensic lab. But at…
Is the federal government finally satisfied with the Derek Chauvin sentence?
After Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd, the federal government permitted anarchists to loot and burn communities across the country. The State of Minnesota successfully prosecuted Chauvin and he was sentenced to 22 years in prison. However, the federal government was not satisfied. A federal grand jury was convened. Chauvin was federally indicted. Chauvin pled guilty…
Not All Prosecutors Think Alike; Some Thoughts on the Marilyn Mosby Case
The United States Attorney for the District of Maryland successfully indicted and convicted former Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby of two counts of perjury. In this weeks episode, Jack Mitchell — a former police officer who worked for Ms. Mosby as an Assistant State’s Attorney — joins Serge and Clarke to discuss Mosby’s perjury…
Is it the Shoplifting Season, or Are We a Culture Devolving into Anarchy?
Who would have thought that in 2023, shoplifting could become a major crime in the United States? Wait — stop. Not everyone believes that shoplifting is even on the rise. But we do! In this episode, Serge and Clarke discuss the changing social conventions surrounding the crime of shoplifting as further evidence of a breakdown…
The Plot Thickens in the Kashef Khan MSP Termination Case
Kashef Khan was the Maryland State Trooper of the Year until he was fired for allegedly writing a false report. The “falsity” in the report was the location of a traffic stop which Khan accurately documented in many ways. Khan uploaded a slightly inaccurate longitude and latitude location from a reporting system that MSP admits…
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