Posts Tagged ‘Diane Dimond weekly crime and justice column’
Be Charitable But Also Be Careful
Charitable giving this time of year is a habit. But during this Year of the Pandemic be extra careful where you donate. Creative criminals are waiting
Read MoreThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Citizen’s Arrests
So how do Citizen’s Arrest laws really work? Can you get in trouble if you try to help cops catch a suspect? You bet you can. Big trouble!
Read MoreDo Sex Registries Really Protect the Public?
Sex registries are in the news again thanks to a couple of high-profile child sex abuse cases. (Think multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein and singer R. Kelly) Keeping track of ex-cons who have sexually preyed on others sounds like a good idea. But do these registries of convicted sex criminals really help keep us safe? Under a…
Read MoreMugshots Live on – Even For the Not Guilty
When the mass shooting suspect was led into a Christchurch, New Zealand courtroom photographers captured his shackled image. The judge then ordered that the face of Brenton Harris Tarrant, accused of the worst mass murder in New Zealand history, be blurred from public view to insure he gets a fair trial. What a quaint judicial…
Read MoreNeed a Unifying Mid-Term Issue? Curb Government Spending!
Call me crazy but I think if federal employees routinely waste millions of taxpayer dollars someone ought to be held accountable, criminally accountable if possible. And anyone who signs off on obviously outrageous spending, like the person who approved buying coffee cups for the Air Force at $1,200 each or the one that okayed spending…
Read MoreA Pause, Please, in the Sex Talk
Americans have been left breathless with all the talk of sexual improprieties over the last few months. Sexual harassment, sex acts with under aged kids, sexual assault, even rape. Allegations, admissions, apologies and confusion reign. Let’s take a collective deep breath and reflect for a moment. What are we to make of all this, what…
Read MoreRussian Attempts at American Mind Control Continue
It is high time we accept the fact that the Russian government is engaged in a massive propaganda campaign aimed at getting Americans to fight with each other. It’s been going on for a long time. After Russian attempts to influence our last presidential election were exposed you might have thought they would back off…
Read MoreThe Sandusky Saga Still Reverberates
Guilty, guilty, guilty….” The jury foreman pronounced that verdict 45 times as former Penn State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, charged with dozens of counts of sexually molesting young boys, stood at the defense table with his hand casually tucked inside his pants pocket. I attended every day of that unforgettable trial and can hardly…
Read MoreThe Problem With Sex Offender Registries
He was accused of an unspeakable crime he did not commit. For 27 years Earnest Leap of Oakview, Missouri has lived with the ugly label, “child molester.” With his name on a publicly available sex registry the word quickly spread that he had sexually abused his own son and had “admitted” it in court.
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