GPS Tracking of Wife Beaters and stalkers may provide victims with more protection than a restraining order, but current state and national economic conditions are preventing widespread use of the technology. A New York Times article by Ariana Green reports that although domestic violence related homicide increased by 300% throughout Massachusetts between 2005 and 2007, Newburyport, MA, a town near Boston using GPS tracking, reported no such homicide. Research by Harvard Law School Professor Diane Rosenfeld indicates that roughly one quarter of women killed by domestic abusers already had restraining orders against them. One advocate against domestic violence reported that her abusive ex-boyfriend has violated his restraining order over 30 times in four years, slashing tires, lurking around her house and harassing her online, but she has no way to prove it. She said that California, where she lives, has a law allowing for GPS monitoring of stalkers, but lawmakers have told her that the state cannot afford to pay for it.
SLA Murderer Paroled: A former member of Symbionese Liberation Army, convicted of participating in a 1975 bank robbery which left a Sacramento wife and mother dead, was paroled yesterday, after serving a six-year sentence. AP writer Don Thompson reports that prior to his parole, James Kilgore had served a 54-month sentence in federal prison for using a dead baby's birth certificate to obtain a passport, and for possessing a pipe bomb in his San Francisco apartment 49 years ago. The SLA, a 70s era anarchist group of mostly white, spoiled elitists led by a black ex-convict, engaged in murder, bank robberies and attempted bombings. After the FBI began tracking down and arresting his fellow revolutionaries, Kilgore ran to South Africa, changed his identity and became a professor, until his capture in 2002.
Colorado's Death Penalty: The Staff at Face the State wrote this opinion piece last Friday on "The Senator Who Saved the Death Penalty." The piece congratulates Senator Josh Penry, a Republican from Grand Junction, CO, for helping to broker the "last minute deal" that removed a provision from House Bill 1274 that would have ended capital punishment in Colorado. According to the authors, Sen. Penry began searching for ways to keep capital punishment in Colorado as soon as HB 1274 passed by a single vote in the House last month. Penry's strategy involved finding alternative funding for cold case investigations, while leaving the death penalty intact. His efforts paid off when the Bill was defeated last Wednesday. From the begining, Sen. Penry saw HB 1274 for what it was a way of "doing away with the death penalty" in Colorado. "The cold case aspect to all this was nothing more than a ploy."
The Cost of Being "Soft" On Crime: How much could a "soft" criminal justice system cost? According to a study conducted by England's Policy Exchange, about £3,000 for every household. James Slack, of the United Kingdom's Daily Mail reports that despite the Labour Party's law and order policies, Britain has the fourth-highest rate of recorded crime of 39 European countries. The study reports that this is due to the lack of effort put into crime prevention. Although the Government established a National Crime Reduction Board two years ago it gave the Board no budget.
SLA Murderer Paroled: A former member of Symbionese Liberation Army, convicted of participating in a 1975 bank robbery which left a Sacramento wife and mother dead, was paroled yesterday, after serving a six-year sentence. AP writer Don Thompson reports that prior to his parole, James Kilgore had served a 54-month sentence in federal prison for using a dead baby's birth certificate to obtain a passport, and for possessing a pipe bomb in his San Francisco apartment 49 years ago. The SLA, a 70s era anarchist group of mostly white, spoiled elitists led by a black ex-convict, engaged in murder, bank robberies and attempted bombings. After the FBI began tracking down and arresting his fellow revolutionaries, Kilgore ran to South Africa, changed his identity and became a professor, until his capture in 2002.
Colorado's Death Penalty: The Staff at Face the State wrote this opinion piece last Friday on "The Senator Who Saved the Death Penalty." The piece congratulates Senator Josh Penry, a Republican from Grand Junction, CO, for helping to broker the "last minute deal" that removed a provision from House Bill 1274 that would have ended capital punishment in Colorado. According to the authors, Sen. Penry began searching for ways to keep capital punishment in Colorado as soon as HB 1274 passed by a single vote in the House last month. Penry's strategy involved finding alternative funding for cold case investigations, while leaving the death penalty intact. His efforts paid off when the Bill was defeated last Wednesday. From the begining, Sen. Penry saw HB 1274 for what it was a way of "doing away with the death penalty" in Colorado. "The cold case aspect to all this was nothing more than a ploy."
The Cost of Being "Soft" On Crime: How much could a "soft" criminal justice system cost? According to a study conducted by England's Policy Exchange, about £3,000 for every household. James Slack, of the United Kingdom's Daily Mail reports that despite the Labour Party's law and order policies, Britain has the fourth-highest rate of recorded crime of 39 European countries. The study reports that this is due to the lack of effort put into crime prevention. Although the Government established a National Crime Reduction Board two years ago it gave the Board no budget.
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