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Finding the Path Back on Track

Kamala D. Harris | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, Rehabilitation, Back on Track, Recidivism, Decreasing-Recidivism, Politics News
Kamala D. Harris

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.

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Speaking for God and for America's Top Cops - the Center for Immigration Studies

Adam Luna | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, James R. Edwards, America's Voice, William Bratton, Immigration, Southern Poverty Law Center, Religion, Nativist, Mark Krikorian, Immigrant, Center for Immigration Studies, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Anti-Immigrant, Bratton, Krikorian, Cis, Politics News
Adam Luna

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.

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EPA Vows Better Enforcement Of Clean Water Act

nytimes.com | CHARLES DUHIGG | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green

Read More: Water Quality, Law Enforcement, Pollution, Water Pollution, Clean Water Act, Epa, Green News

The Environmental Protection Agency said on Thursday that it would overhaul enforcement of the Clean Water Act, as lawmakers sharply criticized the ag...

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Poo Poo on Putting Polanski in Prison

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 10.06.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Roman Polanski Arrest, Law Enforcement, Justice, Prison, Polanski, Roman Polanski, Extradition, Entertainment News
Danielle Cavallucci

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?

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Hardin Jail Deal Delayed Over Controversy With Mysterious Company

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home

Read More: Conspiracy Theories, Law Enforcement, Serbia, Guantanamo, Becky Shay, Gitmo, Detainees, Aleksandar Karageorgevich, Empty Jail, Montanta, Hardin, American Police Force, Billings Gazette, Vaccine, Jail, City of Hardin Police Department, H1n1, Reporter, Terrorism, Prince Aleksandar Karageorgevich, Training, Serbian Prince, Who Is APF, Who Is American Police Force, What Is American Police Force, Security Firm, New Jail, Blackwater, Apf, Santa Ana, Counter Terrorism, Xe, Home News

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...

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American Police Force And Hardin: Mysterious Security Firm Gets Control Of Empty Montana Jail

TPMMuckraker | Justin Elliott | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home

Read More: Detainees, Training, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Xe, Becky Shay, Aleksandar Karageorgevich, Empty Jail, Billings Gazette, Blackwater, American Police Force, City of Hardin Police Department, Jail, Vaccine, Swine Flu, Serbia, Hardin, H1n1, Conspiracy Theories, Prince Aleksandar Karageorgevich, Serbian Prince, Who Is American Police Force, Who Is APF, What Is American Police Force, Security Firm, New Jail, Santa Ana, Reporter, Counter Terrorism, Terrorism, Law Enforcement, Montanta, Apf, Home News

A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything ...

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Is Obama Admin Enforcing Laws and Regs?

Dave Johnson | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, Regulations, Barack Obama, Politics News
Dave Johnson

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.

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18 Years of Failed Parole in Dugard Kidnapping

Jane Devin | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Phillip Garrido, Law Enforcement, Sheriff Rupf, Jaycee Dugard, Rape, Kidnapping, Nancy Garrido, Crime, Parole, Politics News
Jane Devin

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.

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A Former Police Chief on New Marijuana Book

Norm Stamper | Posted 09.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Drug Prohibition, Law Enforcement, Marijuana, Alcohol, Violence, Drug War, Marijuana Abuse, Alcohol Abuse, Drug Policy Reform, Politics News
Norm Stamper

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.

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Whiteous Indignation

Linda Milazzo | Posted 08.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, Cigna, Congressman John Conyers, President Barack Obama, Sergeant James Crowley, Blue Line, Professor Henry Louis Gates, Prejudice, Racial Profiling, Single-Payer Health Care, End Racial Profiling Act, Governor Deval Patrick, Cambridge Massachusetts, Racism, H.R. 4611, Police Unions, Racial Inequality, Mayor Denise Simmons, 110th Congress, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

Be they the Sergeant Crowleys of America, the Aetnas or the Cignas, inequities will continue until The People make them end.

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Who Are the Drug Lords?

Dean Becker | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Grim, Ryan, Law Enforcement, Drug, Prohibition, Truth, War, Politics News
Dean Becker

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.

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Testing for Date Rape Drugs

Sophia Carroll | Posted 08.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Law Enforcement, Roofies, Date Rape Drug, Ambien, Crime, Health, Rohypnol, Alcohol, Date Rape, Drug Testing, Public Health, Emergency Room, Parties, Sleeping Pills, Women's Rights, Rape, Living News
Sophia Carroll

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.

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Supreme Court Offers "Strong Basis" but Little Guidance in Ricci Decision

Irasema Garza | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Ricci v. Destefano, Law, Women's Rights, Women, Law Enforcement, Title IX, Legal Momentum, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Discrimination, Title VII, Women and Work, U.S. Supreme Court, Politics News
Irasema Garza

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.

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Taxing THC: Turning Old New York into New New Amsterdam

Warren Holstein | Posted 05.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: New Orleans, Rockefeller Drug Laws, Marijuana, Drugs, Amsterdam, California, Military Industrial Complex, Glaucoma, Norml, David Paterson, Drug War, Medical Marijuana, Blue Laws Repealed, Decriminalization, Budget Deficit, New York, Tom Ammiano, Politics, Cannabis, Intractable Pain, Federal Budget Deficit, Marijuana Amsterdam, Blue Laws, Neoconservatives, Weed, Legalize Marijuana, Ground Zero, Law Enforcement, Economy, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

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?

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Marijuana No Laughing Matter, Mr. President

Norm Stamper | Posted 04.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, Drugs, Intractable Pain, Marijuana, Economy, Budget, Barack Obama, Drug War, Medical Marijuana, Obama Drug Policy, Obama Marijuana, Norm Stamper, Politics News
Norm Stamper

Our leader doesn't seem to understand that millions of his interlocutor-constituents are actually quite serious about the issue.

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Oakland Police Massacre Casts Ugly Glare on Ex-Felon Desperation

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, Congress, Lovelle Mixon, Barack Obama, Oakland Police Killings, Crime, Police, Second Chance Act, Violence, Ex-Felons, Prisons, California, Oakland, Oakland-California, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

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.

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Police Brutality: Deal With It

Norm Stamper | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Police Brutality, Criminal Justice, Law Enforcement, Criminal Justice System, Police, Abner Louima, Paul Schene, Deputy Beats Girl, Police Beating, Cop Admits Beating, Deputy Paul Schene, Rodney King, 15 Year Old Girl Beaten, Politics News
Norm Stamper

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.

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Ending the "War on Drugs": The Fierce Urgency of...When?

Norm Stamper | Posted 03.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, Drug War, Marijuana, Economy, Terrorism, Drugs, War on Drugs, Drug Policy, Norm Stamper, Politics News
Norm Stamper

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.

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Free Miguel Tejada

Aaron Zelinsky | Posted 03.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mitchell Report Baseball, Law Enforcement, Congress, Barry Bonds, Bridge to Nowhere, Mitchell Report, Steroids in Baseball, Rafael Palmeiro, Barry Bonds Steroids, Sworn Testimony, Miguel Tejada Testimony, Baseball, Miguel Tejada Steroids, Law, Steroids, Major League Baseball, Criminal Law, Miguel Tejada, Baltimore, Entertainment News
Aaron Zelinsky

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.

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Due Process

Norman Horowitz | Posted 03.10.2009 | World

Read More: Law Enforcement, Reason, George W Bush, Terrorism, Axis of Evil, War on Terror, King and I, US Air Force, World News
Norman Horowitz

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.

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Farewell to An Environmental Tyrant

Steve Fleischli | Posted 02.12.2009 | Green

Read More: Environmental Protection Agency, Law Enforcement, Zimbabwe, Water, World Summit, United Nations, George W. Bush, Clean Water Act, Environment, Green, Drinking Water, President Bush, Coal, Bush Legacy, Green News
Steve Fleischli

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.

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The End of Prohibition?

Mary-Charlotte Domandi | Posted 02.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Law Enforcement, Drugs, War on Drugs, Prohibition, Politics News
Mary-Charlotte Domandi

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?

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Tools

Norman Horowitz | Posted 01.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Greed, Law Enforcement, Worldcom, S&L, Epa, Enron, Obama Administration, Republican Conservatives, Jaywalking, Fda, Bernie Madoff, Tools, Security and Exchange Commission, Political Corruption, Financial Crisis, Economic Corruption, Politics News
Norman Horowitz

Society does not work when it takes for granted the system's corruptibility. Make laws to protect society and expect them to be enforced.

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My Crime Fighting Hero

Diane Dimond | Posted 01.22.2009 | Business

Read More: Diane Dimond Column, Albuquerque, Law Enforcement, Crime Stoppers, Greg MacAleese, Statewide Chapters, Involving Public and Media in Crime Fighting, New Mexico, Anonymous, Reward Money, 50 States, Founder, Tipsters, 24 Countries, Detective, Business News
Diane Dimond

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.

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Another Murdered: Pass the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act

Kety Esquivel | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Latinos, Law, Law Enforcement, Hate Crimes, Jose Sucuzhanay, Brooklyn, Obama Administration, Obama Administration Challenges, Congress, Hispanics, Race, Romel Sucuzhanay, New York, Death, Racial Epithet, Ecuador, Immigration Reform, Latino Politics, Nclr, Online, Comprehensive Immigration Reform, Marcelo Lucero, National Council of La Raza, Hate Speech, Long Island, Immigration Debate, Immigration Policy, Politics News
Kety Esquivel

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.

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