Finding the Path Back on Track
Einstein's definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. By that measure, our current approach to criminal justice may need a shrink -- and a new way of doing business.
Einstein's definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. By that measure, our current approach to criminal justice may need a shrink -- and a new way of doing business.
Adam Luna | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics
America's top religious and law enforcement leaders are taking a strong stance in favor of sensible immigration reform and it's made the anti-immigrant crowd very nervous.
nytimes.com | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green
The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it would overhaul enforcement of the Clean Water Act, as lawmakers sharply criticized the ag...
Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment
Wouldn't it serve the interests of justice and the American people more to devote the monies intended to be wasted on this sensational situation to solving real and pervasive problems?
AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home
HARDIN, Mont. — Plans for a California company to take over this city's empty jail were put on hold Monday, following last week's revelations th...
TPMMuckraker | Justin Elliott | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything ...
Dave Johnson | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
Question: Is the Obama administration now enforcing laws and regulations? I ask because I have not heard of any new enforcement of employment regulations here in Silicon Valley.
Jane Devin | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
The most unsettling thing about the Dugard case is the staggering number of times law enforcement failed in their duty to properly monitor a registered sex offender.
Norm Stamper | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics
I do not believe drug policy reform should end with the legalization of marijuana. Yet, when asked to contribute a foreword to the new book Marijuana is Safer: So Why Are We Driving People to Drink, I eagerly accepted.
Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics
Be they the Sergeant Crowleys of America, the Aetnas or the Cignas, inequities will continue until The People make them end.
Dean Becker | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics
The real kingpins are bankers, pharmaceutical house CEOs, weapons manufacturers and a thousand other corporate interests whose gross profits depend on violence, hatred, distrust and deception.
Sophia Carroll | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living
On Independence Day, somebody somehow slipped a pill into my wine glass at a dinner dance, and I left about three minutes before it really hit. Date rape drugs are a weapon.
Irasema Garza | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics
The Supreme Court's ruling last week in Ricci vs. DeStefano should not be understated: the decision threatens to undermine the vital function of the country's historic civil rights legislation.
Warren Holstein | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy
Bollocks! How is that California, the crossroads of implants, spray tans and superficiality, has a leg up on the Empire State, on the possible legalization and taxation of Cannabis sativa?
Norm Stamper | Posted 04.28.2009 | Politics
Our leader doesn't seem to understand that millions of his interlocutor-constituents are actually quite serious about the issue.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics
Though Lovelle Mixon's killing spree is a horrible aberration, his plight as an unemployed, ex-felon isn't. There are tens of thousands like him on America's streets.
Norm Stamper | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
As a rookie cop, why did I abuse the very people I'd been hired to serve? Law enforcement, for the most part, doesn't pick bad apples. It makes them, and not through academy training.
Norm Stamper | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics
The nation's longest running armed conflict, the drug war, financed to the tune of about $70 billion a year, is an unmitigated economic disaster.
Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 03.15.2009 | Entertainment
Instead of imaginative prosecutors stretching the law to go after stupid lies in hotel rooms, baseball should take strong, decisive, and immediate action to clean up the game.
Norman Horowitz | Posted 03.10.2009 | World
I wonder how many "enemy combatants and terrorists" we have inspired by attempting to bomb Afghanistan back to the Stone Age and invading and occupying their country.
Steve Fleischli | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green
If you're worried about your legacy, don't be. You've left an environmental burden that will persist in our rivers, lakes and oceans for decades to come.
Mary-Charlotte Domandi | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics
What are the advantages and disadvantages to legalizing drugs? What would happen to international drug cartels? How would it affect the work of law enforcement?
Norman Horowitz | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics
Society does not work when it takes for granted the system's corruptibility. Make laws to protect society and expect them to be enforced.
Diane Dimond | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business
Crime Stoppers programs have helped solved more than 1 million major crimes and have assisted in the recovery of more than 8 billion dollars worth of stolen property and narcotics.
Kety Esquivel | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics
NCLR has joined other civil rights and Latino leaders to urge Congress and the new administration to make passage of the "Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act" a priority.
Kamala D. Harris | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics