Blessed Be to J (and M. Wilson)

And first, to credit.

J has told me off for not giving him credit when he sends me a site I end up writing about here. Okay. Here you are, J. He sent me this NYT article today, about the police target commonly known as the “Thug.”



It’s a fabulous story by Michael Wilson (who I’ve vaguely had the pleasure of working with once—a nice guy). He goes through the theories of who the image was based on.

Here are some of the options:

This is a sergeant named Fred V. Worell, who taught thousands of New York City police officers how to shoot in his 35 years on the job. Some insist he is the Thug.



One inspector calls it “the Ernest Borgnine Target.”




Others insist it was modelled on Bruno J. Fulginiti, a member of the police department from 1951 until his retirement in 1977.