Nanny Statist Sullivan Arrested for Consensual Crimes
Pat Sullivan, who as Arapahoe County Sheriff from 1984 to 2002 busted drug dealers and prostitutes, himself was recently arrested for attempting to trade meth for sex. As CBS summarizes, ”Today, he’s...
View Article“Inviolate” Right to Jury Trials Undermined by High Plea Rate
Colorado’s Constitution states, “The right of trial by jury shall remain inviolate in criminal cases” (Article II, Section 23). How does that square with the fact that 97.6 percent of all Colorado...
View ArticleGuns, the Media, and Contributing Factors to the Aurora Murders
While the moral guilt for the Aurora murders lies with the murderer himself, obviously with any crime it’s worth looking at contributing factors. To take an example related to a different crime,...
View ArticleArticles on the Aurora Theater Murders
Here I collect the links to my notes pertaining to the Aurora theater murders, drawn both from this web site and from The Objective Standard. Yesterday I visited the site of the memorial. See my...
View ArticleMental Illness and Violence
Clearly, some individuals are prone to committing acts of violence, whereas other individuals (in modern civilizations, the overwhelming majority of individuals) are not. I see three important...
View ArticleDA Candidate Weir Shares Goals, Views of Drug Policy
Pete Weir, district attorney candidate for Colorado’s First Judicial district (Jefferson and Gilpin counties), discusses the balance between helping low-level offenders rehabilitate and cracking down...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to My Westminster Neighbors
Update: The police have made an arrest in the Jessica Ridgeway murder. Remember that due process matters, the evidence matters, and suspects are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Yet, the...
View ArticleIs Five-Year Sentence for Abusive Deputy Excessive?
I was surprised to read in the October 18 North Jeffco Westsider that an abusive sheriff’s deputy from Adams County—David Morrow—was convicted of assaulting a restrained teen and sentenced to five...
View ArticleTime to Restore Jury Trials as Judicial Standard
Certainly the Bill of Rights envisioned a criminal justice system in which jury trials were the norm: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an...
View ArticleEvil
Though the last thing we needed was another reminder, yes, some people are capable of committing horrific evil. But we are Colorado. We will reach out to our neighbors. We will become a stronger...
View ArticleTime to Reform Jury Duty?
Surprisingly, some people actually appear not to want to serve on a jury. I would like to serve, but I can’t manage to get seated on a jury. I’ve been called for jury duty twice. The first time I was...
View ArticlePolice Video Should Be Mandatory and Public
Image: Zuzu I have called for all law enforcement officers at all levels to wear video cameras any time they interact with the public. But such a requirement is not adequate, as Radley Balko points out...
View ArticleOn Evidence and Agendas in Ferguson
Image: Loaves of Bread I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the passion with which some people rush alternately to condemn or to vindicate the police officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson,...
View ArticleWhen May an Officer Use Potentially Deadly Force to Apprehend a Suspect in...
Image: Loaves of Bread As I recently noted, some witnesses claim the officer who shot Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, first fired at him as he was running away. Whether he did so has not, to my...
View ArticleSowell on the Ferguson “Bullet Counters”
Image: Thomas Sowell Thomas Sowell opens his recent article about the police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, by pointing out that most of us “were not there, and do not know what happened when Michael...
View ArticleDenver Deputy Punches Out Inmate, DA Declines to Prosecute
A Denver sheriff’s deputy was caught on video walking up to an apparently non-aggressive inmate and violently punching the man to the ground. The inmate had said something to the officer (I know not...
View ArticleStaten Islanders Protest Eric Garner’s Death by Police
Image: Tommy Miles Thousands of people marched in Staten Island yesterday to protest the police-caused death of Eric Garner on July 17, as the New York Daily News reports. What was Garner’s “crime” for...
View ArticleViolence-Minded Cops on Patrol in Missouri
Image: Loaves of Bread According to the Daily Caller, a police officer in Missouri, Matthew Pappert, allegedly stated on Facebook that the protesters in Ferguson “should have been put down like a rabid...
View Article“There Is a War on the Black Male”—By Black Males
Image: Angela George Spike Lee believes “there is a war on the black male” in America, as the Spectator reports. He is absolutely correct, but he has not to my knowledge pointed his finger at the...
View ArticleDo Colorado Police Really Need 1,160 M-16s and 8 Mine-Resistant Vehicles?
Image: Wikimedia Commons Kudos to Chris Vanderveen and Denver’s 9News team for reporting this important story: “Colorado’s law enforcement agencies have acquired a vast arsenal of military-grade...
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