Half a year ago I posted "The Decline and Fall of the British Police Forces," (http://jordan179.livejournal.com/149586.html#cutid1) which outlined the pathetic condition into which British law enforcement agencies are falling due to various reasons (many tied to ( Read more... )

Introduction

In 1753, Henry Fielding established the first organized professional law enforcement constabulary in Britain, perhaps in any major city in the Western World. (Previous constabularies in other lands had been primarily secret-political, or riot-control, with actually stopping, let alone solving, crimes as a very secondary function). ( Read more... )

Riots have been going on for five days in Greece now, well beyond any length of time explicable by the need to decide on a response or amass the necessary forces to put the riots down. And the Greek people are starting to get angry at the Greek government for failing to stop the riots ( Read more... )

Now, to be honest, I never had a very high opinion of Milwaukee to begin with. Nor did I have a particularly low opinion, either. Tonight, that changed, and here's why.

( And it's NOT about Laverne and Shirley )

(from Mark D. Tooley, Front Page magazine)

http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=6DCC05B0-74D5-45D8-8114-7F3FD706C3AC

The worst of it is this ...

But a note purporting to come from an Islamist threatened the art ( Read more... )