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The Opposite of a Nut-Punch

Jesse Walker | 5.13.2011 9:06 AM

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Well, not the complete opposite -- the NYPD comes off looking pretty bad. Still, this is the feel-good crime story of the week.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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