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Posted in Crime on Dec 22nd, 2011
Another senseless act of knife violence occurred in Bear, Delaware. A 13 year old knife bearing robber is to blame. Read more here. This just proves that we need a knife buyback to solve the problem. After that we need a bat buyback. We need to get these guns, knives, bats, screwdrivers, and chains off [...]
Posted in Crime on Dec 19th, 2011
Sadly, Dover suffered a record setting murder today. The family has been notified and I will give you more information when it is released. No, we don’t need any more police. This is a broad daylight murder which now gives us more in 2011 than 2008, 2009, and 2010 combined. Narrative On Monday, December 19, 2011 [...]
Posted in Crime on Dec 18th, 2011
The best gun control is a steady aim. A Dover family defended themselves against a home invasion this weekend. I know of another family outside of Dover who did not need a police report when someone tried to enter their home because just retrieving a firearm diffused the situation. Yet some still say that we [...]
Posted in Crime on Dec 2nd, 2011
It happens all over the state, late summer hires are brought into the classrooms before their background checks can be completed. Capital School district board member Brian Lewis wants to use the private sector as a solution to screen new school hire while waiting on the results of the finger prints. Brian Lewis leading the [...]
Posted in Crime, Regional Politics, Social Conservatives on Sep 14th, 2011
The good news is a woman charged with beating a transgender woman will be sentenced to prison, likely 5 years. It is a conviction under assault and hate crimes laws. It begs a question Why is it in Maryland 1st degree assault and a hate crime gets only 5 years? The silly news is that [...]
Posted in Crime, immigration on May 5th, 2011
Montgomery County Maryland’s county executive is fighting to remove his county from the federal Secure Communitiess program. The program is meant to deport criminal illegal aliens by running fingerprints of everyone arrested through both FBI and ICE data. Imagine 2050 and other open borders groups claim the program is Big Brother. The Illinois State [...]
Posted in Crime, DE General Assembly, Stuff on Apr 7th, 2011
Senator Henry’s SB 12 passed the upper chamber. The bill repeals the prohibition of people who have been convicted of a drug felony from getting food stamps. A murderer could get food stamps for his family, but not a drug felon. I understand the feeling that someone should not be banned from life from getting assistance. [...]
“Operation: Pressure Point” Coordinates Efforts to Crack Down on Violent Crime Statewide Reducing Crime in Wilmington is the First Focus of this Statewide Prevention Effort Markell: “When it comes to combating gun violence and violent crime anywhere in Delaware, we are fully aligned in both our efforts and outcomes – to save lives.” Wilmington, DE [...]
Posted in Crime on Mar 15th, 2011
Delaware is grappling with a rising gang problem. The State News did a 4 day look at gangs which has opened eyes to the problem. The response in the General Assembly is HB 6 which is to increase gang recruitment and retention from a class F felony to a Class E felony in the hope [...]
The shooting of the Congresswoman and judge along with bystanders has shocked the nation. As I said before, we need a comprehensive mental health strategy in our communities which gets the players working together. This is where the focus needs to be not poltical gamesmanship. http://www.delawarepolitics.net/happy-today-it-is-a-trillion-dollar-question/ At the outset, let me say that my prayers [...]
Posted in Crime, Education, Regional Politics, Stuff on Jan 7th, 2011
We pushed aside old fashion discipline as being unenlightened. The result is that schools became more about crowd control than they need to be. Learning has taken a back seat to survival for some students as they face daily harassment and bullying. With schools increasingly shackled when it comes to effective discipline and intervention, the [...]
Posted in Crime, immigration on Jul 31st, 2010
Most illegal aliens were lured here by the wink and nod open borders policy, and are people we would welcome here if the government got its act together. There is an element, which takes advantage of lack of law enforcement that we do not need here. That is one reason why we have to get [...]
Posted in Crime, DE General Assembly on Jun 4th, 2010
There is a positive consensus reached in a house committee on revising Delaware’s sometimes Draconian drug sentencing laws while keeping the heat on big time dealers. Their is one reported aspect that I do not favor. It increases the penalty for some perscription medications. That is exactly the wrong approach. We should not be worried [...]
UPDATE: Comments now allowed. The Delaware Public Integrity Commissionhas recently been a stop of Christian Hudson, a Lewes businessman and member of the Sussex County Campaign for Libertychapter. Mr. Hudson has filed a complaint claiming Insurance Commissioner Karen Weldin Stewart of numerous violations of Delaware state law. Part of his decision to do so was pushed by the [...]
Posted in Crime on May 18th, 2010
Dr. Earl Brian Bradley, the pedophile pediatrician, will, if convicted go to prison for the rest of his life, but that still doesn’t repair the damage done. It prevents more from happening. The question is even though there was not sufficient evidence for criminal prosecution at the time, why were not other avenues pursued to [...]
Posted in Conservatism, Courts, Crime, Liberty on May 11th, 2010
AG Eric Holder wants legislation to give him more latitude in issuing Miranda warnings for International Terrorism. Will then nearly 50 year battle to reign in the Miranda ruling launched by Senator Strom Thurmond be won by the Obama Justice Department? Wouldn’t an easier solution be to let intelligence officials do their questioning then give [...]
Posted in Crime, Stuff, immigration on Apr 30th, 2010
With the passage of the law in Arizona, giving police officers the authority to question and verify the legal status of people that they suspect of being illegal aliens, there has been a lot of talk about racism. The critics of the law say that it gives officers the power to racially profile Hispanics. The [...]
When considering after-school programs for children, many parents don’t think about the integrity of the personnel heading the program. In Delaware, it looks like that is about to change. Thomas Ott, the head football coach at Cape Henlopen High School, was recently arrested and chargedwith four counts of second-degree unlawful sexual contact, four counts of second-degree rape, two [...]
Posted in Crime on Apr 9th, 2010
Richard Morgan, as far as anyone knew, was a 26 year old man living in Dover, Delaware who apparently liked Star Trek and frequented a particular Star Trek gaming site. He was acquaintances with a Jonathan Sevieri of Canton, Massachusetts from the Star Trek site. Morgan also spoke with a fourteen year old unnamed girl on [...]
Posted in Crime on Apr 1st, 2010
I am a big believer in law and order. I believe the punishment should fit the crime. I am also a believer in innocent until proven guilty. 75% of the people arrested are guilty. That means that 1 in 4 are not. That is why we allow bail and bonds. People are allowed to give [...]
Posted in Courts, Crime, Liberty, Right to Bear Arms, Second Amendment, Stuff on Mar 30th, 2010
The Maryland Senate passed Senate Bill 411, which is a 411 to criminals that says, for your information, Maryland will no longer allow you to use the civil law suit to persecute people who defend themselves against you. The bill allows anyone attacked in their home to stand their ground and use force to do [...]
Posted in Crime, Guest Posts on Mar 13th, 2010
Guest Post by Angel Clark (of the blog Sussex County Angel) In this, the 21st century, women are not docile, programmed to serve and procreate and nothing else. It seems Emmitt Taylor III was unaware of this. In August of 2007 he killed Stephanie Mumford by bludgeoning her to death with a frying pan because [...]
The next time you gripe to your teen about texting; you should remember this story. A Dover man is in custody on numerous charges after he allegedly broke all the windows in his former girlfriend’s home and also took two juveniles hostage. Police were alerted to the hostage situation when one of the young people [...]
Posted in Crime on Jan 6th, 2010
What happen to Beau’s focus on child predators?
Posted in Crime on Jan 1st, 2010
This is a reprint of a letter from State Representative John Atkins (D-41st) sent to Judson Bennett. Rep. Atkins proposes making Delaware the toughest state on sexual offenders. This is reprinted as it was received. Proposed Legislation for Sexual Offenders Background a.. Recently, there has been a lot in the news about child sex offenders [...]
Posted in Courts, Crime, Looney Left, Obama, Stuff on Nov 25th, 2009
This time In San Diego California, the Criminal thugs of ACORN demonstrate just how not to cooperate with a criminal investigation. The response of the San Diego Office of ACORN to a pending visit by Officials of the State Attorney General’s Office was to toss and dump all documents in the hopes of non discovery. [...]
Posted in Crime, Open Government on Oct 9th, 2009
Attorney General Beau Biden’s Office balked, the second time in as many weeks, in its latest attempt to restrict the First Amendment rights of a well-respected Department of Correction critic. Deputy Attorney General Marc P. Niedzielski was due in court this morning to ask a judge to stop Dover attorney Steve Hampton from speaking out [...]
Posted in Crime on Aug 24th, 2009
This weekend a Dover man allegedly pulled a sawed off shot gun on a family then ran off when one of the residents called the police. When the police tracked down the suspect, he ran. Knowing that witnesses had said the man was armed, deadly force was always a possibility if the perception of the [...]
I walked around the Silent No More Rally in Dover yesterday and talked to most of the people who were involved in putting together the event and the organizations who had tables at the event, and one guy with a good hat. I guess I should mention that I was there from about 12:30 until [...]
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