Case number 1: Open up, it's the FBI. Not!
Robbers claiming to be FBI agents forced their way into a home in Burbank, California, after midnight. Then they robbed the family of $20,000 cash. Link.
Lessons learned. First, law enforcement shouldn't force their way into a house until after providing authentication that they really are law enforcement officers. An armed homeowner would then know that anyone trying to force their way in without law enforcement authentication is up to no good, and reasonable defensive force would be justified.
Second, $20,000 is a bit much petty cash to have around the house. And maybe the perps knew it was there.
Case number 2: Go free until there's room at the jail.
A prosecutor in Dunkirk, France, named Philippe Muller determined that 150% of capacity is the maximum number of prisoners he will allow in the jail. So he will delay incarcerating new prisoners until there is room for them. Link.
Lesson learned. If incarceration is supposed to be a deterrent to crime. Then non-incarceration would be an incentive. Then again, maybe they are convicting too many people of trivial offenses.
Prescription drug abuse is a problem in our cnuotry. The 2007 National Study of Drug Use and Health found that 70% of people who abuse prescription pain relievers indicated they got them from friends or relatives, and the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports that upwards of 9 million people use prescription medication for non-medical uses.The American Medicine Chest Challenge is a community based public health initiative, with law enforcement partnership, designed to raise awareness about the dangers of prescription drug abuse and provide a nationwide day of disposal – at a collection site or in the home – of unused, unwanted, and expired medicine that will be held on November 13, 2010 in communities across the cnuotry.
Posted by: Daia | May 18, 2012 at 04:30 AM