Police News Roundup
The NYT reports in follow-up coverage to the 911 debacle last Friday, that the City is considering changing its carrier. The Post carried it as well, as did NY1. The Times also has a feel good piece about a Buddhist monk whose bag was stolen from Starbucks in Trump Tower. The story has a happy ending since the monk's personal papers were returned, but not the cloth back or the cell phone it contained. Hey, a cell phone stolen from a Buddhist monk at the Trump Tower Starbucks? How very twenty-first century! Charles De Rienzo, former member of NYPD and current superintendent of the Port Authority PD is rejoining the NYPD as Deputy Commissioner for Administration. Commissioner Kelly slammed an "extraordinary lack of cooperation" by potential witnesses in a Brooklyn homicide. Such sharp tongued comments must be why homicides are down 7% so far this year, according to the Daily News. However, as the story notes, homicides in Brooklyn are up 13%, which may have been what put the Commissioner in such a bad mood.

In a follow-up to yesterday's item, the stations of the cross stolen from a Bronx church have been recovered and an arrest made. Now conspiracy theorists may speculate here: thirteen stations were stolen, but as anyone whose ever attended catechism knows, there are fourteen stations of the cross. (Base10 must have missed that day in Sunday school). It turns out the fourteenth station, "Jesus is Laid in the Tomb" was stolen several years ago, but never reported. Hmm... Wasn't that around the same time that Mel Gibson got the idea for making "The Passion?" Just a coincidence? I think not.

And in the "lets get this lawsuit behind us" department, the Chief of Police in Fowler Township, Ohio is being sued for paddling a 16-year old defendant as part of a traffic offense diversion program. Now what's really bizarre about this story is not only were parents aware that this diversion program included 15 paddling sessions, but also that the Chief in question was disciplined ten years ago for--guess what--paddling about 20 juveniles. Base10 suggests that the Chief may actually have an addictive personality and cannot stop the spanking. The lawsuit is good news since as everyone knows, he can only beat this addiction when he "hits bottom."
- posted by Base10 @ 8:14 PM