Tag Archives: NYPD

The Fort Greene Observatory

November 1, 2012 – 3:51 pm

Hurricane Sandy barely touched Fort Greene. Trees were knocked down in the park and the internet service has been off for a day, otherwise this neighborhood weathered the storm with ease. We are 120 feet above sea level. Coney Island and the other low-lying areas of city were not so lucky. Lower Manhattan remains without […]

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Sam 7

October 9, 2012 – 9:11 pm

There’s a helicopter flittering over Fort Greene this evening. Obviously the NYPD pigs are hunting a perp that outran their donut-eating comrades. Probably a shooter, but their ruination of the usual quietude has me wishing for a Surface to Air missile. I would miss my a few hundred meters and my arrow would drop in […]

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Shooting To Kill

October 6, 2012 – 2:09 pm

Last month I was talking to an ex-NYPD cop about the Amadou Diallo case. I offhandedly said that the officers involved in that fatal shooting were high on drugs and that the only good thing they did that fateful evening was not reload and shoot the downed African again. “You don’t know what the fuck […]

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Under The Gun

October 6, 2012 – 2:00 pm

Back in the 70s the cops were scared of the streets, but not any more. Two days ago a National Guard solider was murdered by an undercover cop after his victim supposedly cut off two unmarked vans of the Grand Central Parkway. The driver had picked up two females from a Queens nightclub to drive […]

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THE POLITESSE OF PALM BEACH COPS by Peter Nolan Smith

September 22, 2012 – 1:16 pm

Back in the summer of 2008 I was taking care of a Palm Beach mansion. It was deep off-season and hurricane season was coming on fast. One evening I went over to my friend’s house close to the center on town. After dinner Lisa killed me at scrabble. She scored 33 points for xi, which […]

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