Public safety is critical to economic, social, and civil stability. As the country faces crippling deficits, independent voters are looking for solutions that combine fiscal discipline with high quality public service. During severe economic downturns, some services must be cut out of necessity, even while crime rises and disasters strike. As a result, creativity, quality, and citizen vigilance must make-up for a decrease in funding public safety services and payrolls.
Sylvia Longmire’s new book Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico’s Drug Wars has just been released and is available in bookstores today. She is a retired Air Force captain and Special Agent with extensive experience investigating Mexico Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTO).
When a Sacramento County conservator placed Ofiu Edwards Foto into an Oak Park group home, she may not have realized that the man was dangerous (although that information was easily available with a minimum of research). But Rachael Harris almost certainly believed that she could not be held liable for any harm caused by Foto because of laws protecting the state and its mental health work
A new FBI report released Monday is brimming with startling figures about the four-decades-old War on Drugs. Shockingly, in the United States, there is a drug arrest every 19 seconds, making for a total of 1.6 million drug arrests in 2010 alone.
A top lobbying group for the arms industry has announced its intentions to lobby the new Congressional Supercommittee against defense spending cuts.
For most environmental organizations, news of an oil pipeline approved in their backyard would be tantamount to war. But not for the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) of Santa Barbara, which celebrated the announcement this week that a pipeline would soon replace barging from Venoco’s oil drilling platforms off
Military operations in Afghanistan have cost three U.S. servicemen (icasualties.org) their lives and an additional $2.4 billion over the past week.
California’s former top pesticide regulator Mary-Ann Warmerdam, whose office was responsible for approving methyl iodide for agricultural use during the last days of the Schwarzenegger administration, ignored warnings by her own staff scientists that farm workers should not be exposed to more than trace amounts of the controversial fumigant.
August saw the most U.S. soldier fatalities in Afghanistan in a single month since the beginning of the decade-long occupation by coalition forces. A total of 67 U.S. servicemen lost their lives last month in the Afghanistan combat theater.
In a 50-3 vote, California’s lower house has approved a bill that would restrict the way state and local governments use automated traffic enforcement systems, namely the controversial red-light camera.
The Iraqi Foreign Ministry recently released a statement calling on Turkey to immediately halt its attacks against Iraqi territory.
