Inner cities, underpolicing and Iraq

http://www.law.upenn.edu/blogs/dskeel/archives/2008/03/race_and_crimestuntz.html

Article argues that inner cities get too much drug enforcement policing and not nearly enough violent crime policing -- clearance rate for violent crimes there being much lower than in white suburbs. Makes brief analogy to the "boots on the ground" and surge policies in Iraq; brings up lack of local control of police and prosecutors.

Comments bring up other factors, like "no snitch" culture in the neighborhoods; cause and effect between police ineffectiveness and local distrust of police might be entangled.

Radfem analysis of Firefly

Aka "Inara is raped! Zoe is raped! Kaylee is raped! Joss's wife is raped!"

Ah, radicals. Giving feminism a bad name since (insert year here).

From James Nicoll; funny comment here.