A prominent African-American Harvard professor is arrested by a police sergeant in Massachusetts.   The President comments about the arrest, and the nation is riveted by the issue for the following several days.  Truth be told, people are arrested for “disorderly conduct” in every city in the nation , every day of the year.  The single [...]

“The Buffalo police officer was killed in an early morning crash on the I-190. Police say the driver that hit and killed the off-duty officer was drunk. ” “He was a cop who fought against guns, gangs and drugs as part of his job with the police department’s Mobile Response Unit. But it was an [...]

Too often we forget that police officers are human beings like each one of us.   They have the same emotions and concerns that affect each of us in our daily lives.   The difference is that they often face truly dangerous situations that have potentially deadly consequences.   They have a sense of real fear, as any [...]

Police officers are vested with an enormous amount of power over individuals in society.  This is evidenced by the weapons they carry and the badge that they wear or possess.   For an officer it is sometimes  difficult to understand that the power vested in them by the state is not their’s to wield  however their [...]

What is “Police Misconduct”? How Do We Define What Constitutes “Police Misconduct”? There are, essentially, three categories of “Police Misconduct”.  What follows is a three part series of each of  these  categories. Part 1 -  “Keystone Kops” Situation: This is a situation where, through either carelessness or neglect, officers will perform legitimate  police  functions, but [...]

LEAD   POISONING While the annual number of children suffering from lead poisoning in New York City continues in the low thousands, the totals have been significantly reduced  over the past decade or so.   This is the direct result of a program of prevention instituted by New York City. The main causes of childhood lead  poisoning [...]