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by | Mar 24, 2024

In editing Dr. John Dunn’s report on the death of George Floyd, I became aware of the 30,000 words journalist Radley Balko has invested in attacking Derek Chauvin’s defenders. Balko spent nine years at the Washington Post. He has some…

by and | Mar 24, 2024

On Monday, May 25, 2020, George Floyd, a man with a significant criminal record including a five-year sentence for an armed home invasion, entered a convenience store in downtown Minneapolis and made a purchase. The clerk at Cup Foods called…

by | Mar 17, 2024

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has reversed a decision to parole Royce Miller, convicted of second-degree murder for strangling San Francisco high-school student Maxina Danner in 2004. Those who believe this signals a tougher approach on violent crime have a few things to consider….

by | Mar 17, 2024

The Left is pushing a narrative that violent crime is not increasing. Of course, this contradicts what we see happening on the nightly news with our own eyes. So, who are we to believe? In the words of Chico Marx,…

by | Oct 6, 2023

Jury duty gets a bad rap and for good reason: It’s time consuming, disruptive, and often means being away from seemingly more important things. But juries are critical to the American legal system and to the concept of justice in…

by | Sep 29, 2023

America needs more housing. Pressure for reform is only growing as available homes get less and less affordable. Unfortunately, rather than addressing the root cause of high housing prices — an epidemic of local overregulation that prevents enough homes from…

by | Aug 23, 2023

Fani Willis likes to repeatedly tell us that “justice is a blind lady.” Besides being nonsense, it’s also not true, but at this point no one expects Willis to know what she’s talking about every time she opens her mouth….

by | Jul 22, 2023

The women were expendable. They were sex workers, after all. When they disappeared between 2007 and 2010, Long Island law enforcement formed no task forces. There was no huge outcry from the public. Their killer had chosen victims who could…

by | Jul 17, 2023

We no longer live in the age of the serial killer. The serial killer yielded to the mass murderer by the time Columbine occurred in the late 1990s. “Nearly 770 serial killers operated in the U.S. throughout the 1980s, and…

by | May 16, 2023

New York bail reform efforts have taken the life of yet another Gotham resident, 30-year-old subway performer Jordan Neely. These reforms, originally passed in 2019, have caused a wave of violent crime while tying the hands of judges tasked with…

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