Crime and Punishment

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has released an immigrant from Sweden who was convicted of felony murder of a local police officer in California and sentenced to life in prison in 1983. The woman has reportedly been deported to her native country.
Swedish tabloid Expressen has a picture of the cop killer celebrating her freedom.
April 9 update: [...]

Police suspect members of something called Global Intifada of having set fires in several grocery stores in Sweden that sell U.S. products (I can’t imagine there being many stores that don’t). Time for President Barack Obama to go Swedish television and display his usual rhetorical brilliance. You know, “We can no longer let <things the [...]

That’s the new talking point in pro-amnesty advocacy. How can we put this in Bush/McCain terms? Perhaps, “they’re only coming here to fill the battered-women shelters that Americans can’t be bothered to fill.”

The Boston Globe reports on the latest anti-gang sweep conducted by ICE and various local police departments in Massachusetts:
The 80 arrested represent 24 gangs, including the Tiny Rascals, Bloods, and MS-13, he said.
Of those arrested, 55 were permanent residents who could be deported for their crimes; 14 lived here illegally; two were wanted on deportation [...]

Garda Inspector Kathleen O’Toole is recommending the deployment of “less than lethal weapons.”
Uniformed gardai could be using pepper spray devices within the next two months, and highly controversial “less than lethal” weapons… The recommendations for these weapons, which are widely used by other police forces, were made in the report by Garda Inspector Kathleen O’Toole [...]

Washington Post columnist Mr. Courtland Milloy has some much needed criticism of the expensive technophile policing that law enforcement in Washington, D.C., has become heavily vested in:
With all the high-tech crime-fighting gadgets and gizmos being deployed throughout the District in the past couple of years, you’d expect to see at least a dent in violent [...]

Boston City Council’s precious and presumably soon-to-be-deployed ShotSpotter gunshot detection system is once again providing tragicomedy in Rochester, New York:
Shalonda Simpson, 25, of Rochester was killed about 2:15 a.m. outside School 29 at 88 Kirkland Road. Police believe she was the victim of robbery.
Simpson died in a particularly violent time span on city streets. She [...]

TV station WHAM reports on a drive-by shooting that may or may not have taken place in Rochester, New York. The story includes this little nugget:
The police department’s ShotSpotter technology did not activate Saturday morning on Avenue A, although that’s common in drive-by shootings.
Swell. More on ShotSpotter here.

The Boston Globe’s Michael Levenson and Jonathan Saltzman report that Suffolk County (which is to say Boston and some neighboring towns) will “will run out of prospective jurors by October.”
That’s strange. My wife has been to jury duty a few times, and every time she’s been sent home without actually sitting in a jury. The [...]

Short story: Young woman attacked, mugged on Commonwealth Avenue, between Kenmore Square and Charlesgate West at 3 am. I’m pretty sure the cops caught a suspect.
[Update: BPDnews.com has an account of the incident. The description of the suspect alters slightly from the one I recount below, which is as one can expect since I got [...]