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Immigration:  Crisis or Not – It is a Problem

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So, what is the reality about immigration into the United States? Is it the “humanitarian crisis at the border” some speak about or is it, as others maintain, nothing much to worry about since apprehensions along the Southwestern border are now at an all time low?

Both statements are correct – to a point. Border apprehensions are down. But it used to be the majority of immigrants were solo males looking for work to send money home. Today it is mostly families with children attempting to enter the U.S. and we are simply not equipped to handle them all. [Read more…]

The State of Hate in the U.S.

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Is America really full of hate? Are we truly a nation teeming with victims? Outsiders could certainly come to that conclusion after digesting the steady stream of agitated comments from activists and politicians and media reports about the divisive state of our interpersonal relationships.

Hate speech, hate crimes, violence perpetrated by hate groups – all topics the media has made a near-daily staple of their coverage. Headlines scream that hate is on the rise! Facts reveal a very different picture. [Read more…]

Gun Owners Have Rights – and Responsibilities

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Guess how many stolen guns are out there floating around America? (Hint: its in the millions!)

These are guns that most frequently make their way to the criminal element and are used with impunity because the shooter knows it will be difficult to tie to them to the weapon. Imagine the trouble this causes law enforcement as they try to find the perpetrator of a deadly crime in which a stolen gun was used. There are no sales receipts floating around when guns change hands this way. [Read more…]

His Name Was Bobby

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Now we have a name.  After two agonizing decades, the ‘Boy Under the Billboard’ case I wrote about last year has finally been solved.  But in determining the identity of the strangled 10-year-old boy, abandoned under a highway billboard, sheriff’s detectives also unraveled a dark family mystery.

His name was Robert “Bobby” Whitt, a boy with a thick thatch of dark hair who was described as “a precious little boy, so sweet, so kind.”  A child who loved to dance with his cousins and play video games and air hockey. His recently located family says Bobby adored his father and was the apple of his grandmother’s eye. [Read more…]

Time to Retire the Perp Walk

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Let’s talk about a police practice known as the perp walk. It’s the walk of shame for a suspected perpetrator of a crime, usually in a case that’s top of the headlines or soon will be. As police move the handcuffed prisoner from place to place both the public and the media are allowed to be on hand to shout accusations, take photos and videos of the suspected criminal and to ask loaded questions.

Perp walks are known as the crime reporter’s red carpet because police make it so easy, alerting reporters in advance about the time and place of the event so cameras can be at the ready.  It’s like a preplanned scene out of a movie complete with uniformed officers, hand and sometimes leg cuffs and a suspect that is usually trying to hide their face in some dramatic fashion. [Read more…]

How Many More Might Accuse Michael Jackson?

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The landscape has now changed on a story I first began reporting some two decades ago and newly released details demand an update to the sad saga.

Two men have come forward to discuss, in graphic detail, what they say was their years-long sexual abuse at the hands of entertainer Michael Jackson. Their claims spill out in a newly screened four-hour documentary just released at the Sundance Film Festival. The biopic entitled, “Leaving Neverland” will be shown on HBO sometime this spring. [Read more…]

About Diane

I was raised in the great American Southwest by parents who stressed personal responsibility, integrity, compassion for others and the ability to tell a good story. Growing up in Albuquerque, New Mexico I absorbed the moral and ethical values I would carry with me throughout life and use daily as a journalist.
After a humble beginning in Albuquerque radio (covering the cops and courts beat) I moved east. First, radio in Washington, DC where politics was the name of the game and then to New York where I got my first taste of television. It was to be a long draw at the TV trough, from New York to Hollywood and back again. And always my most fulfilling work was done in the crime and justice genre. My long running syndicated column allows me to deep dive into the human stories behind the headlines on a weekly basis. Writing books about crime and how society reacts to it still fascinates me.

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