Comments on: Monday Morning Links

By: CK

CK — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:25:17 +0000

And if Ron Wood’s soon to be ex is mathematically inclined, she can test the proposition that 20 goes into 60 a whole lot more than 60 goes into 20.

By: nicole

nicole — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:51:16 +0000

Re: 9–my thought exactly. Less than $1000 for that much drugs…even one of the article’s commenters said “if the deal’s too good to be true, IT IS!”

Also, I thought the no-chasing bit in that other story was odd. Unless, say, the sting had been a block away and the cops just hadn’t made it to their car yet.

By: GU

GU — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:30:04 +0000

Re: DC thinking you should take more public transportation

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_98_percent_of_u_s_commuters

By: Edintally

Edintally — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:04:09 +0000

Isn’t cocaine $100 a gram? “X” $20 a pill? If that is in fact the going retail rates, seems like entrapment even if this guy has a record?

There has to be a bottom price if police are going to sell drugs and arrest buyers. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of finding everyones profit margin for which they will risk committing a crime.

What’s the end game here, throwing a bag of coke into the crowd and arresting whoever catches it?

By: MacK

MacK — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:02:18 +0000

In the link Nicole provided, of the mother killed during the escaping drug bust situation the police said they were not pursuing the suspects.

Who really believes this statement?
They chase if you jay walk, so they can get that eluding charge also.

By: MacK

MacK — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:48:31 +0000

I love how the witness said no one was yelling police when the gang entered the McDonald’s, yet I’ll bet on any report released it’ll clearly state that they yelled police several times.

McDonald’s uses cameras I would like to see this one released, so we could get a better idea of just how aggressive they were with the patrons.

I wonder if this is not another police created crime, because we know there is not enough already. It should be against the law for police to create any crime, but they do it all the time.

By: nicole

nicole — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:46:47 +0000

I was impressed with the comments on that McDonald’s drug bust article. People seemed upset the public, especially children, had been endangered. Then of course someone comes along to call them all “cop haters.” Even more depressingly, all the examples of why we really do “need the police” have to do with more victimless crimes.

And this looks like an article about the dead mother in St. Petersburg:
http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/article696337.ece

By: Nando

Nando — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:44:55 +0000

Didn’t Fenty just get himself a Smart car? I thought he ditched his SUV about 3 months ago to become “greener” and save on gas.

Either way, making it harder for commuters isn’t the answer. They’ll just find other ways of driving around these problems which, in turn, will probably cause more traffic on other DC roads.

By: Dog's New Clothes

Dog's New Clothes — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:36:30 +0000

Actually Radley, it was the other way around: the cops sold the drugs to Dixon:

“A confidential informant and an undercover detective waited inside the restaurant to sell Dixon an ounce of cocaine and 100 Ecstasy pills for $950.”

Makes this exercise by the police even more bizarre and pointless.

By: Chance

Chance — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:14:48 +0000

I’d love to take public transportation the whole way to work. Too bad the metro doesn’t come within 25 miles of my house, and the commuter buses are crowded, break down frequently, and add on an unacceptable amount of time to my commute. Long commutes bad for the environment? I agree completely! Too bad the housing close to my job is unaffordable, even if I took a reasonable cut in my standard of living.

If only they allowed more telecommuting. Seriously, why do you need to be in a central facility for most office functions nowadays?

By: Highway

Highway — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:03:03 +0000

Hey Radley, any information about the other bust gone wrong that someone in the comments talked about, where a couple people got run over by a dealer escaping in his car?

That McDonald’s story is just pathetic. Paraphrasing the cops: ‘We needed to storm the restaurant so that he couldn’t get rid of some evidence, when we already have a controlled buy, and we know what this guy does and we could catch him another time. It’s more important that we are able to pile on as many charges as possible, rather than keep the actual safety of the public in mind.’

By: Mike Leatherwood

Mike Leatherwood — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:52:49 +0000

I asked my wife about ditching her for an 18yo cocktail waitress.

To learn her response, contact me in the ICU at the hospital….