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A New York State Assembly member has proposed legislation that would force cops to shoot to stop and not to kill a person. The New York Post writes, "But why stop there? Bullets are expensive; why not just mandate the use of Mr. Spock's Vulcan nerve pinch to render killers supine?"

Puerto Rican man to be sentenced for Wells Fargo robbery in 1983. I bet ultra-nationalist Efrain Ortiz will have a petition up presently calling for Avelino Gonzalez-Claudio's release.

Mark Kleiman: "Reporters [link] still can’t get it out of their minds that crime naturally rises and falls with the unemployment rate."

Stupid Drug Story of the Week.

The part where he talks about taking "man as he should be" reminds me of Niccolo Machiavelli's saying that:

A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.