Tag: police

  • Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets by David Simon

    It’s interesting to read this book so soon after The New Jim Crow. They’re products of a different era, but they have some surprising parallels. This is the book that made David Simon, and while it’s fun to hunt easter eggs and find the seeds of his work in this, it’s an incredible achievement on…

  • The Botched Hunt for the Gilgo Beach Killer

    How corrupt and small-minded cops in New York let a serial killer run loose for over a decade: This summer, after 13 years, the police finally made an arrest in the Gilgo Beach murders. Rex Heuermann is a 59-year-old architect and married father of two who commuted to Manhattan from his home in Massapequa Park, a bustling…