Another week, another deadly terrorist attack, this time in Brussels. The aftershocks heightened security across Europe and here in the US. Understanding why Muslim extremists continue to kill innocents and what they are likely planning for the future can best predicted by someone who used to live, eat and pray among them. … [Read more...]

California Overcrowding Among the Worst It’s easy to understand the intent behind the current move to reduce prison overcrowding but are we sure we’re doing it right? In 2010, when President Obama signed The Fair Sentencing Act to reduce federal prison sentences for non-violent drug offenders he specifically targeted those who had been convicted of crack cocaine crimes. … [Read more...]

In this corner – the FBI – which says that all high tech company Apple cares about is protecting its mega-profits brand and not the nation’s security. And in that corner – Apple – which says the feds will put everyone’s privacy in jeopardy if a court forces them to disable password protection on the iPhone of dead terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook. … [Read more...]

Law enforcement needs to know what it doesn’t know. Tracking trends in crime is a way to keep communities safe. Any decision made is only as good as the information used to make it, right? I submit the same holds true when figuring out how to fight crime. Since the 1930’s the FBI has urged the nation’s law enforcement agencies to take part in its Uniform Crime Reporting Summary … [Read more...]