Criminal Justice
Shameful
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Criminal Justice on March 9th, 2013
Forget the arguments about whether water boarding is torture. The Guardian has now uncovered irrefutable evidence of full-scale torture during the Iraq War, conducted by Americans under the direct orders of Donald Rumsfeld. The story also implicates General Petraeus. The Guardian/BBC Arabic investigation was sparked by the release of classified US military logs on WikiLeaks that [...]
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While We Are Wringing Our Hands….
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Criminal Justice on March 4th, 2013
While we wait for the impact of sequestration to hit, we might ponder this: In an interview with Spiegel Online, a Harvard economist insisted that we could save an amount equal to the sequestration cuts every year just by ending the War on Drugs. “The prohibition of drugs is the worst solution for preventing abuse,” said [...]
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Two Sides of the Issue
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Criminal Justice on February 28th, 2013
The question of DNA testing is evidently coming before the Supreme Court this year. The issue is whether taking DNA from someone who has not been convicted of a crime is a violation of that person’s constitutional right to privacy, to bodily integrity. You would think that a committed civil libertarian would be opposed to [...]
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What We Don’t Know and How It Hurts Us
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Criminal Justice, Public Policy and Governance on December 27th, 2012
Remember the old saying, “what you don’t know can’t hurt you”? Unlike a lot of folk adages, it’s wrong. Very wrong. A lot of folks–especially younger people–shrug off the suggestion that they need to follow what our political class is doing. They have lives to live, livings to earn, children to raise, parties to attend. [...]
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Pot and Kettle
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Criminal Justice on November 28th, 2012
Yesterday, the head of Indiana State Police did something police officers rarely do: he gave a candid answer to a question posed by a legislative study committee. State police Superintendent Paul Whitesell told members of the State Budget Committee on Tuesday that he had followed the issue during 40 years in law enforcement and believed we [...]
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