Police News Roundup.
NY1 reports that Verizon has taken responsibility for the 911 snafu on Friday saying it was human error. See these links for the story in Daily News and the NYT. The Times is running a cluster of stories celebrating the 100 year anniversary of the IRT subway that makes for pretty good reading. Of particular interest is this article describing subway jargon. This is the only time I've ever seen the phrase "token sucker" appear in the Times. The Post reports that the list of the City's top overtime earners includes one NYPD sergeant. Newsday reports that three weeks ago, the Department bused forty teens from Bedford-Stuyvesant to the Department range in the Bronx to be trained in the Department's firearm's simulator. The simulator basically presents shoot/don't shoot scenarios at the subject who is armed with a simulated firearm. Members of the public often remark about the dificulty of the split second decision making, a concern echoed by those quoted in the story. It seems like a good way to educate the community on the legitimatly difficult issue of police use of force in the aftermath of the Stansbury shooting. Unfortunately city councilman/village idiot Charles Barron doesn't feel that way and called the trip "cruel" and "insensitive:"

It's bad enough that [Neri] got off...Now they [police] are trying to convince teenagers that he was justified. They're trying to say, 'Look at how difficult our job is.'"

In "the donut is mightier than the rubber hose" department, a Swedish researcher studying police interrogation techniques concluded that softer toned "good cop" techniques were more effective at getting confessions than inquisitorial "bad cop" questions. I wonder what kind of confessions you could get in exchange for a weekend in Vegas?
- posted by Base10 @ 9:58 AM