Police News Roundup.
The City's Chief Medical Examiner is planning to open up a DNA lab in the near future enabling the use of DNA matching technology to solve more mundane crimes like burglary and other property crime.

Base10 offers his condolences to the family of missing Julliard student Sarah Fox. Her body was discovered in a secluded section of an Inwood park on Monday.

Deep sympathies also for missing Police Officer Ronald Shepard, a possible suicide/drowning victim on Staten Island, who has been missing since Saturday.

While crime maybe down, police union officials are still claiming that local police commanders are cooking the books.

In a somewhat bizarre story, the CEO of the Drake Business School was shot in the leg on the Steinway Street subway platform in Queens. No motive was given but there are rumors of disgruntled former employees.

Various officials are warning about an imminent terrorist attack in the summer months. No specific threat has been detected.

A NYC Traffic Agent had a confrontation with a suspect who struggled with the agent and then stole his car and struck him with the door as he was driving away.

Heroes:
Two Hartford Conn. Detectives shot by a suspect on Tuesday. The suspect was killed in the shootout.
Berkeley Police officials who arrested Don Juan Warren Graphenreed for the murder of Police Officer Ronald Tsukamoto in 1970. No, that is not a typo, Officer Tsukamoto was killed by a Black Panthers thirty-four years ago.
The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan for an acerbic piece about E.L. Doctorow's heckling at Hofstra over the weekend. (Best Line: "Hofstra students use boos responsibly").
Comedian Bill Cosby for some frank and truthful talk at an NAACP dinner celebrating the anivesary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Berkeley Law Professor John Yoo for an insightful analysis about why the Geneva Convention does not apply to terrorists.

Goats:
Berkeley law students who have petitioned for Yoo's ouster as a result of his well reasoned legal opinion.
Disgraced former head of NYSE, Dick Grasso, who is vowing to sue to receive his ill gotten compensation.
Clueless New Jersey bank robber Ernest Di Falco who stuck up a bank with a fake gun in Rutherford on Monday. Di Falco was apprehended while waiting for a taxi following the robbery.
Creepy Ringling Bros. Circus clown Thomas Riccio, who even more creepily played the character "Spanky the Clown" for being arraigned on federal child pornography charges.
Amnesty International for their ridiculous "report" condemning the US led war against terror.

And finally, in the "is that a stick shift in your pocket or are you just happy to see me" Department, in a somewhat unsurprising German study, researchers found that drivers of Porsche automobiles were the least faithful, with a whopping 49% of males admitting to having affairs. Not far behind were BMW drivers and Audi drivers among women. The most faithful subset was Opel drivers for both men and women. This seems to be another example of "auto" eroticism. (See the last paragraph of this post for a prior instance).

- posted by Base10 @ 1:11 PM