james boyd died the next day, but his case isn't isolated. person in the last four years to die after being shot by albuquerque police. the 26th person. the autopsy revealed boyd was shot in the back, a homicide. to date, not a single officer involved has been charged with anything. alarming but statistically not surprising. bowling green university professor phil stinson, a former cop himself, has been trying to determine just how many people are killed by police, how many of those killings are determined to be crimes. but it's not easy. the data, he admits, is not perfect, the reporting scant, and law enforcement agencies, he says, sometimes don't cooperate and respond honestly to surveys. but in 2000, 718 cases involving police shootings from 2005 to 2011 just 41 sworn officers were ever charged with manslaughter or murder. what's more, he says, is that in ten years of date the on sworn officers involved in any kind of misconduct on the job or off, officers charged with crimes ranging from theft to murder are 33% less likely to be found gui

booth presents himself as james w. boyd, a confederate soldier wounded at the battle of petersburg.ooth is writing in his diary when word comes that union calvary are heading toward the garrett farm. booth tells herold to get his pistols. the two men flee to hide in the woods. when they return, garrett's suspicions have been aroused. tonight they will not be welcome to sleep in the house. tonight they will sleep in the tobacco barn. >> tonight, i tried to escape these bloodhounds once more. i have too great a soul to die a criminal. >> i don't want to die, booth. i don't want to kill no one. >> i do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but i must fight the course. 'tis all that's left to me. >> at 2:30 a.m. on the morning of april 26th, the tobacco barn at garrett's farm is surrounded by 26 members of the 16th new york cavalry. >> we know who you are! >> who are you? what do you want? >> we want you. and we know who you are. give up your arms and come out directly! >> well, my boy, we have no choice. >> you god damn coward, you would leave me now? go. go on. i would not have you stay w

boyd has become one of my absolute favorite writers. everything he writes is different. everything is a surprise. he wrote the most recent james bond novel. yes. and i haven't read it yet but told it's very good, very witty. so, a surprise like that doesn't happen very often. it's always very gratifying. because you can tell people about a good book and it's -- i think that -- i don't usually go into a book review with any particular expectations. i go into hoping that -- when i picked up "inferno" 650 pains, a couple years ago, about the entire sweep of world war ii, thought, this will be a lot of work. really it wasn't. a fantastic, wonderful book, i -- i couldn't put down, as the sagos. but sometimes you get into a book and you think, oh, lord, i've got 475 pages ahead of me. and i've only two or three times in a long career tossed a book aside, and in both cases it was because the book was so bad i didn't think i wanted to inflict what i would write on that particular writer, who was probably a perfectly nice person. so, i think more positive surprises than negative. when i was writing the series we mentioned, called "seco