FBI Promotes Eric Velez-Villar to Executive Assistant Director of Bureau’s Intelligence Branch

Steve Neavling ticklethwire.com   Eric Velez-Villar, a 29-year FBI veteran who has fought organized crime, terrorism and drugs, has been promoted to executive assistant director of the bureau’s intelligence branch, the bureau announced. Velez-Villar most recently served as assistant for the intelligence directorate. Velez-Villar joined the FBI in 1985 and began working on organized crime and…

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Some Quirky Ways to Reduce Crime

  By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Some Quirky Ways to Reduce Crime There are scores of proposals for methods and programs to reduce crime. And there is no shortage of criminologists, sociologists, social psychologists and criminal justice experts who make their living making these proposals. No doubt some of these “traditional” theories and projects deserve serious…

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