Arresting people for assaults, beatings and robberies doesn't bring money back to police departments, but drug cases do in a couple of ways. First, police departments across the country compete for a pool of federal anti-drug grants. The more arrests and drug seizures a department can claim, the stronger its application for those grants ( Read more... )

I was having a conversation with someone about gun safety around children today. I was talking about a shooting in California recently (the salon shooting) and then the conversation shifted to the child of the shooter and his primary victim--the child's mother ( Read more... )