Dimond: Crime and Justice Issues Are on the Public’s Radar

BY DIANE DIMOND Last year’s tally is now in, and the news story that garnered the most searches on the Internet was … (can I get a drum roll, please?) … A crime story! Before I get to the winner, may I just say that life, as a crime and justice columnist, is sometimes a […]

FIGHTING THE “UNSAFE” ACT

To the Editor, On January 15, 2013, on the very first day of the legislative session, the New York State Legislature passed the most sweeping draconian gun control laws in the nation. The so-called NY SAFE Act had nothing to do with public safety, and everything to do with pushing Andrew Cuomo’s political agenda and […]

WASHINGTON CHOOSES POLITICS OVER EDUCATION FOR BLACK KIDS

Thomas Sowell decries ‘the truly despicable intervention’ by Eric Holder COLUMN BY THOMAS SOWELL Anyone who has still not yet understood the utter cynicism of the Obama administration in general, and Attorney General Eric Holder in particular, should look at the Justice Department’s latest interventions in education. If there is one thing people all across […]

Senate Intelligence Committee Must Make Public Its Report on CIA Torture

By General David Irvine, Ambassador James R. Jones, Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering and Judge William S. Sessions Shortly after the Abu Ghraib photographs became public, Secretary of State Colin Powell described telling foreign audiences, “Watch America. Watch how we deal with this. Watch how America will do the right thing. Watch what a nation of […]

Why the Erosion of Public Trust? Here’s Why

BY DIANE DIMOND If you robbed a bank and got caught, you would go to jail. If you waited in the getaway car while your cohort robbed the bank, you would go to jail as an accomplice, right? Of course you would. That’s what the law mandates. So how come, after a bank stands mute […]