The real CSI
A come to the city Blunders by doctors in America’s morgues have put innocent people in prison cells, allowed the guilty to go free, and left some cases so muddled that prosecutors could do nothing....
View ArticleWhat happens when a Supreme Court justice performance declines?
From the Globe and Mail Alarmed by the chief justice’s wandering concentration and a fall on the stairs of an Ottawa restaurant, the other eight Supreme Court judges banded together and gave him a...
View ArticleSomeone think of the hamsters
Especially in France where they have been found guilty of not protecting the Great Hamster. The Court of Justice in Luxembourg, the European Union’s highest court, ruled Thursday that France had...
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The hypocrisy of the Terrelle Pryor decision
Some of you know I am a big fan of Yahoo! Sports’ Mike Silver. He has a great column on Terrelle Pryor’s entrance into the NFL Supplemental Draft and the hypocrisy that is shown by the NFL by...
View Article10 Things That Make Your Home a Target for Thieves
From Consumer Reports A home is robbed every 14.6 seconds and the average dollar loss per burglary is $2,119, according to statistics just released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And that’s...
View ArticleFormer Reform and Canadian Alliance MP Jim Pankiw to face charges
From today’s StarPhoenix Former MP Jim Pankiw has been charged with impaired driving, driving with a blood-alcohol content over the legal limit and failing to go for fingerprinting. The incident...
View ArticleThe Criminalization of Homelessness
This column by Barbara Ehrenreich just killed me inside. The current prohibition on homelessness began to take shape in the 1980s, along with the ferocious growth of the financial industry (Wall Street...
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When police go bad
Okay, is this disturbing to anyone else? As 16 police officers were arraigned at State Supreme Court in the Bronx, incensed colleagues organized by their union cursed and taunted prosecutors and...
View ArticleJoe Paterno about to ousted at Penn State
The writing is on the wall for Penn State’s Joe Paterno. Joe Paterno’s tenure as coach of the Penn State football team will soon be over, perhaps within days or weeks, in the wake of a sex-abuse...
View ArticleTimes are tough even for gang members
Hence the “community gun†Hidden and shared by a small group of people who use them when needed, and are always sure to return them, such guns appear to be rising in number in New York, according...
View ArticleBringing down Canada’s massive human-trafficking ring
Amazing story from the Globe and Mail One December morning, a 49-year-old Hungarian named Sandor Simon was at a Hamilton welfare office when he became agitated, saying he was terrified of the people he...
View ArticleOne in three American Indian women have been raped or have experienced an...
A disturbing report from the New York Times The difficulties facing American Indian women who have been raped are myriad, and include a shortage of sexual assault kits at Indian Health Service...
View ArticleTough times ahead for the RCMP
From the Ottawa Citizen An internal RCMP investigation into a series of sex and drinking escapades in a staff sergeant’s office revealed a pattern of sexual harassment so disturbing that senior...
View ArticleTexas honor student jailed for truancy
Diane Tran, an honor student in Texas, was thrown in jail by a Judge Moriarty after she missed too many classes at her high school. Tran said she works both full-time and part-time jobs, in addition to...
View ArticleRuby Ridge
If you have some time, read the debacle that was Ruby Ridge and the Randy Weaver stand off. To put it in the words of Deputy FBI Director Danny Coulson OPR 004477 Something to Consider 1. Charge...
View ArticleEncouraging news for the west side
According to a Saskatoon Police news release. The two girls, ages nine and 12, reported being followed by a man driving a white extended-cab truck as they walked in the area of 33rd Street and Avenue P...
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The Drug Cartels Move North
Some are taking the law into their own hands. Which is crazy but you kind of understand it when you think of the violence that happens in those border communities because of the drugs and gangs that...
View ArticleLessig on Aaron Swartz
Powerful read by Larry Lessig in the prosecutor’s role in Aaron Swartz’s suicide No doubt it is a certain crazy that brings a person as loved as Aaron was loved (and he was surrounded in NY by people...
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You are the cure
Great public awareness campaign and website from the Government of Alberta on the dangers of texting and driving. Â I am amazed that despite the Saskatoon Police Service cracking down on it and the...
View Article“What is it that the correctional service actually corrects? In my view very...
Dr. Gabor Mate on addictions & corrections According to CSC, 80% of offenders are substance abusers.
View ArticleHomeless Edmontonians speak about impact of residential schools
This video is heartbreaking. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada paid a visit to the Boyle Street Community Services in Edmonton on Saturday. As Nicole Weisberg reports, the commission...
View ArticlePaul Martin accuses residential schools of ‘cultural genocide’
‘Call a spade a spade,’ former prime minister says Residential schools engaged in “cultural genocide,” former prime minister Paul Martin said Friday at the hearings of the federal Truth And...
View ArticleHow a Convicted Murderer Prepares for a Job Interview
The challenges those that have been incarcerated having in finding a job In prison Angel thought that it wouldn’t be too hard to find a job once he got out. He believed he had come a long way. At...
View ArticleHow Militarizing Police Can Increase Violence
Does more military gear make cops more likely to act violent? Long before the killing of Michael Brown and the subsequent protests in Ferguson, Missouri, which have brought with them countless images...
View ArticleAnd now the FBI…
Now it is the FBI that is forging websites to catch high school criminals The FBI in Seattle created a fake news story on a bogus Seattle Times web page to plant software in the computer of a suspect...
View ArticleF.B.I. Director Speaks Out on Race and Police Bias
From the Washington Post The F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, delivered an unusually candid speech on Thursday about the difficult relationship between the police and African-Americans, saying that...
View ArticleWant to cut crime? Start making smaller jails
When you build smaller jails and stop treating jail as a business, you start to have to come up with more creative solutions to keep non-dangerous people out of jail. This is partially why residents...
View ArticleDuterte’s War on Drugs Through a Local Photographer’s Eyes
From the New York Times “When a President Says ‘I’ll Kill You’” is a Times documentary on the deadly crusade led by President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines that he has called “a war on drugs.” The...
View ArticleTrump’s Hand in Duterte’s Dirty Work
Sigh. The Trump administration makes so much news that it’s easy to lose sight of even important stories. Thus, the leak of the transcript of a phone call between Trump and President Rodrigo Duterte of...
View Article100+ exceptional works of journalism from 2016
Each year, in one of my favorite media traditions, Conor Friedersdorf picks dozens of articles, essays, podcasts, and stories from the previous year “that stood the test of time”. Here’s his...
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