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How Long a Prison Sentence is Enough?

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A petition has been filed with the Governor of New Hampshire that breathes new life into an old and very sensational case. It asks Governor Chris Sununu to embrace this era’s evolved thinking on prison sentencing, specifically the sentence of life without parole.

A key section of the 695-page petition reads, “The New Hampshire Constitution’s goal of punishment being ‘to reform, not to exterminate’ warrants relief for Pamela Smart through commutation of her sentence to time served or to make her parole eligible.” [Read more…]

Safer Schools Through Better Communication…

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Here’s an idea. Instead of turning our schools into fortresses to try to prevent the next school shooting how about we do more than just that?  As we contemplate adding metal detectors and bulletproof safe rooms to schools how about we try an additional approach as well?

How about setting up dedicated lines of communication within schools so students, teachers and staff can confidently share what they know about troubled kids and get them the attention they need. [Read more…]

Don’t Be Duped by Social Media Propaganda

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Americans are so gullible. Even after all we know about Russian troll attempts to influence our 2016 presidential election with phony social media posts we still fall for their shenanigans.

Even after Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team indicted the Russian Internet Research Agency, nicknamed “the Troll Farm”, and 13 Russian nationals on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States via these fraudulent posts, we still join their deceptive Facebook pages and share their divisive Twitter messages. [Read more…]

Let’s Drain the Congressional Money Spending Swamp

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Whether you believe the involvement of the federal government in our every day lives is a good thing or a bad thing I’m betting we can all agree on one thing. Lawmakers in Washington continue to misspend our money, big time. There ought to be a law but there isn’t.

Pork Barrell politics is still alive and well in the United States Congress with a bi-partisan group of congressmen and women still elbowing each other to win special interest money for their state while decrying the practice to voters. This matters because our federal deficit is now over $21 trillion dollars. Yep, that’s trillion, with a T. [Read more…]

Who Is The Next Mass Shooter

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The news alerts us to another mass shooting at _________ fill in the blank. A school, a theater, on a busy street or at a shopping mall and we shake our heads in disbelief. What’s the toll this time – five dead? Ten? Twenty? Who would do such a heartless thing? And, isn’t there a way to stop sick and violent predators before they kill?

You probably have a vision of the typical mass shooter. A mentally ill scruffy loner, a brooding, friendless young man who suddenly “just snaps.” But a new FBI study reports that impression is all wrong. [Read more…]

In Court Rich People Are Different Than Us

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There are as many as 87 women who say Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein sexually assaulted them in one way or another. Some charge they were forcibly raped by the 66-year-old ex-movie maker. The now disgraced Weinstein all but admitted his disreputable behavior in a recent interview when he, reportedly, said, “I did offer (women) acting jobs in exchanged for sex, but so did and still does everyone.”

It came as no surprise when Weinstein’s criminal defense attorney, Ben Brafman, quickly announced his infamous client had been misquoted and reminded that Weinstein has always denied all the charges.   [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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