Archive for February 2018
The FBI Needs More Dedicated Digital Detectives
Think of all the ground-breaking scientific developments that have helped in the fight against crime. Fingerprinting, blood testing and DNA profiling to name just three. Today it is way past time for another major advancement. This one must be laser-focused on the digital world in which we all exist. And it must be a fully…
Read MoreForeign-Made Goods Flood U.S Federal Prisons
Have you ever watched that recurring ABC evening news segment called Made in America? They highlight small businesses that provide lots of jobs and make competitively priced products designed to reduce our appetite for cheap foreign made goods. Stirs my patriotic juices every time I see it and it makes me wonder what would happen…
Read MoreA Call to Judges to Better Protect Children
There is way too much killing in America. Murders, accidental shootings, executions, deadly domestic abuse, despondent people who kill themselves and then there is filicide. That’s when parents kill their own child. We would like to think this sort of heinous crime doesn’t happen, but it happens way too often. A study published in the…
Read MoreDon’t Let the Media Make Up Your Mind on State of the Union.
Following President Trump’s first State of the Union I was left shaking my head at some journalist’s analysis of what was said. Especially troublesome from my crime and justice perch were reporter’s conclusions tying Trump’s mention of deadly MS-13 gang activity to all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. The Huffington Post’s coverage of the issue…
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