Law and Order
“Tom Paine” takes the Brits to task for their “smug” and “gleeful” take on the recent Virginia Tech massacre. He also makes this acute observation about comparing British and American homicide rates: Britain’s only statistical advantage in the field of crime is that our homicide rate is lower. That’s largely because we only count convictions,…
Our prayers go out to the victims of yesterday’s Virginia Tech shootings. No political commentary here, obviously. But what purpose is being served by investigators’ seeming coyness about admitting whether there is the possibility of a second shooter or not…Virginia Tech’s president said Tuesday that a student was the gunman in at least the second…
Speaking of proposals with gaping holes, if not blatant contradictions, in their reasoning, “key lawmakers and other major players in the state’s law and order community” offered Governor Carcieri some suggestions as to how he might free up some space in the ACI as part of attempts to decrease the state government’s deficit. Apparently: 31…
H 5237, promoted by the ACLU and the Rhode Island Civil Rights Roundtable and sponsored by Reps. Almeida, Diaz, Ajello, Handy, and Slater, will create the “Immigration Status Protection Act” and change the “Racial Profiling Prevention Act” of 2004. It is a true gem of self-contradiction. But I’ll get to that. First, though, as the…
