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Category: Crime and Justice
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By Selwyn Duke Patti Waldmeir of the Financial Times reports that the Supreme Court appears poised to uphold an individual’s right to bear arms. As you may know, a landmark Second Amendment case has come before the court, as a lower court has ruled in favor of a security guard who was upset that he…
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By Selwyn Duke As a native New Yorker, I’ve long associated Eliot Spitzer with prostitution — the political variety, that is. He’s a man who would, it seems, do anything to advance himself, including using his office when attorney general to harass pro-life organizations on behalf of the abortionists who greased his palms. In this…
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By Selwyn Duke Virtually all public universities maintain a prohibition against gun possession on their grounds. But in the wake of the recent campus shootings, this policy is coming under scrutiny. A chorus of activist voices, such as an Internet-based group named Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, is asking authorities to guarantee Second Amendment…
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By Selwyn Duke New York City officials have announced that “it’s only a matter of time” before parks throughout the Big Apple are equipped with surveillance cameras. Washington, D.C., police are now going to monitorlive footage from some of their cameras (those in the highest-crime areas), joining other American localities that embrace the practice.
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By Selwyn Duke The New York Times really could be the poster rag for the decline of the mainstream media. Its new motto should be "All the news that fits our agenda," as rarely a week passes where my low opinion of it isn’t affirmed. This time the paper issued its offense against Truth on…
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By Selwyn Duke DNA technology has been an invaluable crime-fighting tool, allowing law enforcement to identify both the innocent and the guilty. And since it has been so welcomed by authorities, molecular biologist Tony Frudakis had every reason to believe that his great advance in suspect identification — called "DNAWitness" — would be well received. …
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By Selwyn Duke A white man aboard a subway car is taunted, harassed and attacked by a gang of black high-schoolers. Three white Michigan teens find themselves in the "wrong" neighborhood and are beaten and shot by six black youths. Then there was the case of a white couple that was gang raped, mutilated and…
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By Selwyn Duke After the horrible mall shooting in Omaha, Nebraska, people are asking the usual questions. Many want to know why shooter Robert Hawkins did it. A better question would be: Why not?
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By Selwyn Duke When does an unborn baby become human? If our contradictory laws are to be believed, it all depends on geographical location and whether or not the wrong person tries to kill him. A case in point comes to us from Wisconsin, where a man, Manishkumar Patel, is being charged with first-degree murder…
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By Selwyn Duke Last month there was a story about a black firefighter who reported finding a knotted rope and threatening note containing a picture of a noose in an East Baltimore firehouse. But now it has been revealed that the fireman, Donald Maynard, planted the objects himself.
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