The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Murray Weiss and Tony Bologna

    Over at DNA Info we can see Murray Weiss ensuring that his sources in the NYPD stay fresh and friendly. The next to last sentence from his post:

    "Bologna may have made a mistake in judgment and deserved a rip. But it is hard to see a crime here. "

    Hard to see a crime here? I could understand that it might be hard to see anything if one had, say, pepper spray in one's eyes.

    What's Murray's excuse?

    Have to give him credit for his wordsmithery: not many journalists would say that a cop deserves a "rip"; whatever the hell that is....because as sure as dirt stinks, a "rip" has nothing to do with losing a few days vacation time and a few grand out of over $100K yearly.