Category: Crime & Justice

Said Musa

Afghan Convert to Christianity to be Executed within Days | Gospelherald.net-Chinese Christian News Online. What if you were sentenced to die for your beliefs and no one was coming to your rescue? There are no Hollywood celebrities drawing attention to your pending execution. The American powers present in your country, supposedly to enforce freedom, are […]

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Excessive Force?

From today’s Seattle Times: A $10 million settlement has been reached between King County and the family of Christopher Sean Harris, the Edmonds man who suffered a catastrophic brain injury in May 2009 when he was shoved into a wall by a sheriff’s deputy. The settlement — the largest individual award in the county’s history […]

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Red Flags Before A Killing Spree

Earlier today I briefly combed the web for background information on Jared Loughner, the alleged gunman who murdered six people and critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson. He shot 13 other people as well. Here’s what I was looking for, because it is almost always there: definite warning signs that he was going to […]

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Tooling Along in our Motorcars

Have you ever been driving with children in the car and you realize that your reactions to dangerous drivers are setting a poor verbal example for them? While I’ve made a conscious effort to use the exclamation from Spongebob, “tartar sauce!” in the car, it hasn’t worked well, and I’ve realized that I sound like […]

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It’s About Time

Both KING and KOMO News are reporting that former state trooper Ronda “Reynolds’ cause of death was changed from ‘suicide’ to ‘undetermined.’” It’s about time. For those unfamiliar with the case, Barb Thompson, Reynolds’ mother, has a website dedicated to finding justice for her daughter, http://www.justiceforronda.com/.

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The Israeli Security Approach

The ‘Israelification’ of airports: High security, little bother – thestar.com. This article from the Toronto Star discusses how Israel’s airport security differs from the U.S. and Canada. We can learn a lot from a country that, as reporter Cathal Kelly points out, has a higher terror threat, but has managed to minimize the inconveniences travelers […]

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48 Hours – Harris-Moore

Tonight’s episode of CBS’ 48 Hours was about Washington’s own Colton Harris-Moore. There had been little about Harris-Moore in the media lately until he was indicted on five federal charges this week. He’ll be arraigned next Thursday. I tried to keep an open mind while watching this 48 Hours episode, but it was hard to […]

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The Response

A family friend and his hilarious coworkers at Gig Harbor Fire made this video for their banquet this year. One develops a certain sense of humor when working in these fields, but I’m sure that everyone can appreciate a department poking fun at itself… In reality these guys risk their lives for total strangers, and […]

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