Posts Tagged ‘Diane Dimond’s weekly crime and justice column’
Voting Vigilance Matters
It’s time for America to get its cyber- security act together — on many fronts. But beginning right now we need to start a serious discussion about how to keep the upcoming presidential election results safe and secure. This needs to be a completely nonpartisan discussion that looks past a particular candidate’s shockingly premature prediction…
Read MoreYes, Let’s Fix the Ghetto
Fear, anger, cries of racism. This is what seems to envelop America these days, dished up daily by no less than presidential candidates and the media. So many people taking offense at what others say or do I can’t keep track of it all. It’s exhausting.
Read MoreEx-Cons, The Forgotten — and Now Manipulated — Voting Block
So, have you decided who you will vote for in the upcoming presidential election – or whether you’ll vote at all? As you ponder that, realize that nearly 6 million Americans will not be allowed to vote this November. Who are they?
Read MoreRapists Should Have No Right to ‘Daddy’ Status
Okay, ready to be outraged? Here’s the scenario: A woman says she has been raped. She makes a police report, undergoes the humiliating rape kit testing procedure and names the man she says sexually attacked her. Later she discovers she has become pregnant from that attack.
Read MoreRecruiting Your Kid as a Narc
This is the time of year parents start worrying about back-to-school stuff. For those with college aged kids who will soon go off to live by themselves an extra bit of preparation to think about. You may not realize it but police departments across the country, especially those near colleges and universities, often “flip” students…
Read MoreImagine The Life of Law Enforcement In Today’s Climate
Among America’s massive workforce are some 900,000 citizens who head out the door every day knowing they could wind up dead. Can you imagine having a job like that? These 900,000 are state and local law enforcement officers, the front line we Americans have to keep us safe. Fewer than 1 million people tasked with…
Read MoreTeen Texts Can and Will Be Used Against Them in a Court of Law
Everyone knows teenagers say and do stupid things. Sometimes, really stupid things. And unless you’ve kept the teenager in your life under a rock they also text each other way too much. A criminal case in Massachusetts highlights how both those behaviors ––thoughtless actions and texting out every thought in one’s head –– can come…
Read MoreThe Law That Should Have Applied to Hillary Clinton
What’s that old axiom? A prosecutor has so much power they could indict a ham sandwich? Apparently that does not apply when it comes to career politicians who are seeking the highest office in the land.
Read MoreHistoric Lessons to Guide the Immigration Debate
The political divide in this country has completely paralyzed us. Generally speaking, half of us think one way, the other half believes just the opposite. The never-ending conflicts — on a whole array of legal issues – continues with no end in sight. Not even the U.S. Supreme Court could decide what this nation should…
Read MoreIts Summertime Hot – Children Shouldn’t Be Left to Die
BOISSER CITY, LOUISIANA — Three-year-old twins, children of a sheriff’s deputy, were found unresponsive inside the family pickup truck on a day temperatures were in the 90s. They were pronounced dead at the hospital. Summer has only just arrived but already the annual death count has begun. Hot, record breaking temperatures have been registered across…
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