Police departments are used to singing the blues. Especially when they song is about reducing the number of uniforms. Consider if you will the problem, however, from a taxpayer’s perspective.
 
King County, Washington, home to Seattle and Microsoft, has an annual law enforcement budget of more than $450 million dollars. Defenders of the price tag point out this includes the costs of the judicial system, as well. The growing problems of Seattle’s police department ceding oversight to citizen panels highlights the conflicts of when money mixes with politics, policy, and salary. Seattle has long had a reputation of being authoritarian and independent: to supporters, this translated into a united police culture—to critics, Seattle was inordinately represented by “jackbooted thugs.”
 
Police guild members respond by noting that the larger problems in Seattle policing come from inadequate pay, making it hard to attract new talent. There is of course a subtle threat, implicit in the perception that pay meets integrity.

If Bernie Madoff repays his legal debt, he will live to be the world’s oldest man…221 years old, to be exact.
 
Madoff, age 71, was sentenced to serve 150 years in federal custody. There are other important numbers, beyond the commonly trumpeted $35 billion in stolen or misdirected monies. Take for example the more than 13,000 investors all around the globe who can claim to be harmed by Madoff. In sentencing Madoff, the federal judge somberly declared Madoff to be “evil.” That’s a substantive Constitutional issue not taught in law school, let alone a bar review answer designed to score points. The other numbers of relevance are typical sentences for Ponzi schemers (12 years). The sheer size of Madoff’s crimes seems to suggest a record sum should receive a record sentence.
 
In that case, judges should take into account inflation and deduct a year for, say, each 1.35% of annual inflation.
 
Leave out, if you can. the issues of whether or not “evil” really applies to Madoff…that is a theological question.

Uniform Costs

Police departments are used to singing the blues. Especially when they song is about reducing the number of uniforms. Consider if you will the problem, however, from a taxpayer’s perspective.
 
King County, Washington, home to Seattle and Microsoft, has an annual law enforcement budget of more than $450 million dollars. Defenders of the price tag point out this includes the costs of the judicial system, as well. The growing problems of Seattle’s police department ceding oversight to citizen panels highlights the conflicts of when money mixes with politics, policy, and salary. Seattle has long had a reputation of being authoritarian and independent: to supporters, this translated into a united police culture—to critics, Seattle was inordinately represented by “jackbooted thugs.”
 
Police guild members respond by noting that the larger problems in Seattle policing come from inadequate pay, making it hard to attract new talent. There is of course a subtle threat, implicit in the perception that pay meets integrity.

Sentencing Dr. Evil

If Bernie Madoff repays his legal debt, he will live to be the world’s oldest man…221 years old, to be exact.
 
Madoff, age 71, was sentenced to serve 150 years in federal custody. There are other important numbers, beyond the commonly trumpeted $35 billion in stolen or misdirected monies. Take for example the more than 13,000 investors all around the globe who can claim to be harmed by Madoff. In sentencing Madoff, the federal judge somberly declared Madoff to be “evil.” That’s a substantive Constitutional issue not taught in law school, let alone a bar review answer designed to score points. The other numbers of relevance are typical sentences for Ponzi schemers (12 years). The sheer size of Madoff’s crimes seems to suggest a record sum should receive a record sentence.
 
In that case, judges should take into account inflation and deduct a year for, say, each 1.35% of annual inflation.
 
Leave out, if you can. the issues of whether or not “evil” really applies to Madoff…that is a theological question.

Burbank Man Arrested for Killing Own Father

The Stone of Dr. Graves

A 19-year-old man from Burbank is charged with involuntary manslaughter for killing his own father.  Allegedly, the involuntary manslaughter occurred while the two were in an argument.  Allegedly the son punched the father in the face.
Loock was booked for involuntary manslaughter and released after posting $25,000 bail, Quesada said. He is due in Pasadena Superior Court on July 16.
Involuntary manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being without malice aforethought. It is distinguished from voluntary manslaughter by the absence of intention. It is normally divided into two categories; constructive manslaughter and criminally negligent manslaughter.

Los Angeles Meth Lab Arrest

Crystal meth

 A recent raid of a meth lab near Los Angeles has many people puzzled as the meth lab is on land owned by a prominant politician.  Los Angeles drug offense attorneys know that Los Angeles meth labs can lead to heavy jail time, and that meth labs are seen in a very negative light by most of the population.

Los Angeles Sex Crimes

Hollywood Fire

Oscar-winning songwriter and film director Joseph Brooks is currently facing as many as 91 criminal charges including rape, sexual abuse and assault from several women who claim he lured them to his New York apartment to audition for film roles and then sexually assaulted them.  Accounts taken by New York police suggest that a date rape drug may have been used in at least a few instances, though toxicology reports are not yet clear.  Brooks’ personal assistant, Shawni Lucier is also being charged with criminal facilitation for his role in arranging some of these encounters.  Brooks is best-known for his work on “You Light Up My Life,” which won an Oscar in 1977 for best original song.  He pleaded not guilty at his arraignment on Tuesday.  If convicted, Brooks could face decades in prison.

Los Angeles Medical Marijuana

Medical Marijuana Dispensary

Medical marijuana may get just a little more difficult to find in Los Angeles following action by the City Council to seal a legal loophole that had allowed dispensaries in the city to proliferate. In 2007 the city council had placed a temporary ban on the opening of new Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries while it took some time to discuss how to control them. The ban allowed existing dispensaries to remain open so long as they adhered to certain requirements, with which 186 dispensaries were in compliance. The ban did not, however, extend to Los Angeles medical marijuana dispensaries whose applications were still under review and who had filed hardship exemptions. The fact that the city attorney’s office had internally decided they did not have the time or resources to win court cases against dispensaries with pending applications made it almost too easy to open a dispensary and operate under the guise of pending legal status. 

Los Angeles DUI and Marijuana

Melila Purcell @ Cleveland Browns Training Camp

NFL stand-out Donte Stallworth pleaded guilty last Tuesday to DUI/Manslaughter charges in a Florida Court stemming from a horrific March incident that left a pedestrian dead. Stallworth was reportedly driving in Miami in the early morning hours when his vehicle struck Mario Reyes, a construction worker on his way home from a late night shift. Paramedics rushed Reyes to the nearest hospital where he died. Miami police administered field sobriety tests and later took a blood sample from Stallworth, which is customary in situations were driving under the influence is suspected.

Intelligence and Crime

Criminals are generally better regarded for winning the “Stupid Criminal Story of the Week” than exhibiting any particular intelligence. But you’d have a difficult time making a line-up of idiots when picturing the FBI’s targets in the Counterintelligence Domain Program.
 
Many of the most effective and expensive criminal attacks are all about intelligence.
 
The White House announced the appointment of a “cyber security coordinator” to tackle incipient threats to the nation’s cyber structure. As with many other federal efforts, the call to “action” is more heralded than the specifics. For example, the President’s talking points fail to note the way a Cyber Tsar will work with existing units, such as the FBI’s CI Domain Program. CI Domain, under former President Bush, has already advanced efforts to integrate cyber security initiatives in a trilateral system, integrating businesses/academic entities/counterintelligence agencies.

Summer Meltdown?

By all accounts, the economic ‘crisis’ is now a year old and almost two decimals deep, in terms of unemployment. Traditional crime statistics suggest that if there’s going to be a surge of crime, spurred by economic instability, those warning statistics should be emerging to make of this a long, hot summer.
 
Of almost 250 police agencies recently surveyed, almost half (44%) reported they are cutting back their front-line police forces at the very time they say crime is increasing. But there have always been those who argue crime explodes less because of police staffing cuts than because of economic necessity: the poor and economically fearful simply steal more and engage in greater risky behaviors.
 
One of the problems in crime analysis is attributing causation to correlation. For example, statistics might suggest ice cream causes drowning…after all, every summer, increased consumption of ice cream invariably leads to increased numbers of drownings.

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