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07.28.2009 9:00 pm

Police-community relations best cultivated during calm

Most folks have a couple of guys over for a beer, it’s no big deal. President Barack Obama is not most folks. Nor, for that matter, are James Crowley, a Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant, and Henry Louis Gates Jr., a Harvard…

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05.30.2008 5:00 pm

Driving while black can get you pulled over

The Associated Press is reporting that black drivers are more likely to be stopped by police in Missouri than are white drivers, and minorities are twice as likely to have to be searched.

From the story: “Black drivers are more likely…

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04.26.2008 7:16 pm

Lessons from the Cincinnati riots

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Anyone who has worked on — or with — a major metropolitan police department had to feel a twinge of nausea after news last week of the acquittals of New York City Police officers in…

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