Somebody IS Watching Me…and You, Too.
I’m just an average man with an average life I work from 9 to 5, hey, hell I pay the price All I want is to be left alone in my average home But why do I always feel like I’m in the Twilight Zone and...
View ArticleVoting Rights and the SCOTUS
Election day is months behind us but the issue of voting rights has once again become a ‘hot topic’. Tomorrow, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Voting Rights Act case, Shelby...
View ArticleStop-and-Frisk Milestone Reached and it’s Nothing to be Proud Of
With approximately 34,500 uniformed officers and 51,000 employees overall – even more than the Federal Bureau of Investigation – the New York City Police Department is the largest police force in the...
View ArticleTerror in Tiny Town
The human rights maestro You can always count on Canada to provide black comedic relief when it comes to how terrorist threats ought to be blunted. We – unerringly – take an American legislative...
View ArticleSupreme Court says taking your DNA after arrest is legal
“Taking and analyzing a cheek swab of the arrestee DNA is, like fingerprinting and photographing, a legitimate police booking procedure that is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment.” ~ Justice...
View ArticleRep. King, Empathy and the ‘Others’
“Deep in my heart, I do believe, that we shall overcome someday…” As I stood in the pouring rain Saturday in Atlanta for the Trayvon Martin rally, my mind wandered to another time, another place. I...
View Article‘Stop and Frisk’ update
Finally. Thanks to the perseverance of the New York Civil Liberties Union, the City of New York will clear the records of thousands of innocent people who were stopped under the city’s controversial...
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