Ross Parker was chief of the criminal division in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Detroit for 8 years and worked as an AUSA for 28 in that office. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Both the U. S. and Mexican governments face some difficult policy questions in light of the surprise release from jail last week of…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com FBI agents seized unspecified files and other records from the Philadelphia Sheriff”s Office on Thursday as part of an ongoing investigation into the former administration, the USA Today reports. That administration was led by John Green, who resigned in January 2011 following allegations of corruption and mismanagement. A spokesman for Sheriff Jewell…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Jodi Butts, a law enforcement officer since 1998, said the challenges facing women in the field are numerous. Now a military police officer in the U.S. Army, Butts said women must work harder to be accepted. As law enforcement officers we face a multitude of challenges every day. Whether it’s dealing with…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The NAACP isn’t clowning around. The group is outraged after a rodeo clown at the Missouri State Fair donned a mask of President Obama while an announcer riled up the crowed by suggesting that the bull should run down the clown, Opposing Views reports. “The activities at the Missouri State Fair targeting…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A former deputy police chief in Markham, Ill. was caught with his pants down and now he plans to come clean. Tony DeBois is expected to plead guilty to lying to the FBI about a sexual relationship he had at the police station, The Chicago Sun-Times reports. But it’s unclear how that…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI is investigating a so-called “sextortion case” that targeted newly crowned Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf and other women, The Los Angeles Times reports. The culprit hacked into the computers of Wolf and others, turning on the webcam and also searching for nude photos and videos, The Times wrote. Once the…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com For the four women and eight men tasked with deciding whether notorious mobster James “Whitey” Bulger was guilty of murder and racketeering, life was not easy. Sometimes the jurors shouted at each other; other times they felt disgusted with the sleazy witnesses. The trial was so stressful that some even popped aspirin…
Leonard Pitts Jr. Miami Herald It’s been a war on justice, an assault on equal protection under the law. And a war on families, removing millions of fathers from millions of homes. And a war on money, spilling it like water. And a war on people of color, targeting them with drone strike efficiency. We…
