Over two hundred thousand dollars a year as a State Police lieutenant? That's crazy. And a lot of it wasn't paid details - it was overtime, because it took place on a Mass. Turnpike Authority road. But that kind of overtime is just as wasted as the paid detail money: paid to a guy sitting in a car reading a newspaper, in the middle of the night, behind traffic barriers, in a closed tunnel.
In a rational society, that money would be spent paying police officers to fight crime, so vigilantes don't have to volunteer.
Self-Defense in Cambridge
I've covered this before, but there's news today. The state's highest court ruled that Alexander Pring-Wilson is entitled to a new trial, one in which he'll be allowed to introduce evidence of his alleged-victim's violent past in support of his self-defense claim. Pring-Wilson is the former Harvard graduate student sent to prison for killing one of the two convicted felons who attacked him four years ago.
I had hoped Gerry Leone wouldn't pursue this case the way Martha Coakley did, but I guess he's protecting his political future too. Middlesex DA is a launching post for political careers.
Combine that with the utterly irrational knee-jerk liberalism of Cambridge and you've got a real good reason not to go there.
April 11, 2007 in Commentary, Law, Policing, Politics | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)