Oct 13, 2011
Warnings and beatings
Kim Rossmo, criminologist and former Vancouver cop, tried to warn the public about a serial killer targeting sex workers in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside back in 1998. Rossmo's lawyer has told the commission looking into the case that if senior police officials had listened to Rossmo, they would have caught Robert Pickton sooner.
Interestingly, at least to me, The Atlantic spoke to criminologist and former Baltimore cop about corporal punishment. Peter Moskos, an assistant professor of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, argues that flogging is more humane than the current criminal justice system.