There are some jobs, schoolteacher immediately comes to mind, where the person so employed is responsible not just for doing his or her job ...

I am not overly fond of police officers. Some percentage are just not very nice people, whether they are being rude and officious, enforcing...

The problem with a great many police is that they simply do not believe that Black people have constitutional rights.  Courts and juries too...

Justice is supposed to be blind. If the so-called justice system is not blind then it's of no use.  This is a truism if you happen to be...

I don't have much to say about this story other than to repeat what should be blindingly obvious. Women are not more morally upright tha...

I have never been to prison. My understanding is that some (many?) of the nation's worst large state men's prison systems are or wer...

I rarely have nice things to say about the police. I think police are a necessary evil . Often conservatives and racists ( which is almost ...

It is frustrating that I could change only the names and dates in the two stories in this post and the events would be identical to other in...

It's a source of cynical amusement, frustration, and anger to me how some Americans think that THOSE people should always immediately an...

You may have heard of the slogan " Defund the police! " bubbling up from many of the people who are protesting the scourge of po...

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg recently threw his hat in the Presidential race . African-American NYT columnist Charles Blow wrote a column...

There was a discussion on my Facebook page which is newsworthy enough to add here. As you may have heard former Dallas police officer Ambe...

American Black men who are present where white people think they shouldn't be are in danger of either being assaulted ( if the white p...

I've written about how I am not overly fond of police. In my experience and those of many people I know, police tend to be overly aggr...

As we've discussed many times before the problem with police is not just a question of individual personal bigotry. It's that poli...

The obvious takeaways from this story are that (a) crack cocaine is a hell of a drug (b) drug abuse prematurely ages people something fier...

I wasn't shocked to read that a female police officer could allegedly be dismissive or sexually abusive to male co-workers. We should ...

I want you to imagine that you're peacefully resting, reading, sleeping or just doing whatever you like to do in your own home.  Yo...

Imagine that you have just spent two days in the hospital. Maybe you had surgery. Maybe you ate crappy hospital food. Maybe ...

We've seen people kicked off airplanes because they declined to purchase extra seats for children or because they refused to be bumped...