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Hitman Shoppers, Beware Online Specials

by Jo Ellen Nott 

California Bay area self-styled cyber crusader Bob Innes has been receiving emails asking him to arrange murders for over 10 years. Innes created a website in 2005 to offer internet analytics services and named it “Rent-A-Hitman, Your Point and Click Solution” to draw in …

Dozens of Cases Dismissed After California Cops’ Trove of Racist and Anti-Semitic Texts Discovered

by Jo Ellen Nott

The Torrance Police Department of Los Angeles, California, is under intense scrutiny at both the county and state levels since two officers unwittingly unleashed a scandal after allegedly painting a swastika on the rear seat and smiley face on the front seat of a …

Dallas K-9 Instrumental in Civil Forfeiture of $106,000 at Love Field Airport Despite There Being no Arrest or Crime

by Jo Ellen Nott

A police dog with the Dallas Police Department sniffed out $106,000 in cash in a traveler’s suitcase on December 2, 2021, at Dallas’ Love Field Airport. The canine, a member of the department’s interdiction unit, pointed his nose in the direction of a 25-year-old …

It’s Rough Being a Spy Under the Watchful Eye of Big Brother

by Jo Ellen Nott

A digital world that never sleeps and the proliferation of surveillance devices in the 21st century have irrevocably altered spycraft. The modus operandi of spies before the technological revolution, concocting cover identities or moving about unobserved, is now virtually impossible in the universe of …

Policy Paper Cites Benefits of Eliminating Federal Marijuana Prohibition

by Jo Ellen Nott

Data collected concerning the positive impact on federal incarceration rates and their cost if marijuana were to be decriminalized are impressive. Ending the federal marijuana prohibition would reduce incarceration costs by $571.8 million and reduce the federal prison population by 2,807 over a five-year …

 

 

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