North Dakota Sees Slight Increase In 2013 Crime Rate, But Down From 2002
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem's office released their annual state crime report for 2013. It's a bit of a mixed bag....
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North Dakota Crime Spike Has More To Do With Age Than Oil
North Dakota Rep. Ben Hanson, a Democrat from District 16, posted this to Twitter this morning about the rise in...
Why Are We Counting People Charged, Not People Convicted, For Western North Dakota Crime?
"Number of federal defendants up 31% in western North Dakota," reads the Mike Nowatzki headline in the Fargo Forum. The numbers were...
Teenager Jailed For Months Over A Facebook Joke
Was the joke in poor taste? Absolutely. Should he have been jailed for months over it? Don't our cops have...
To Lower Crime At Colleges, Eliminate Underage Drinking Laws
I've long been an advocate for getting rid of age restrictions on alcohol consumption. By postponing the ability of younger...
Texas Non-Profit Giving Away Free Shotguns, Training To Residents Of High-Crime Areas
This is fantastic: HOUSTON (TheBlaze/AP) – Houston resident Cheryl Strain’s inexperience with guns was apparent as she struggled to load...
Gun Control Not Stopping Criminals From Getting Guns
"You have this paradox in that New Jersey has arguably the toughest gun laws in the nation yet has a...
NSA Collecting Call Data From Millions Of Verizon Customers
Remember when President Obama was against this sort of thing? "This administration...puts forward a false choice between the liberties we...
There Have Been More Than 73 Million Firearm Background Checks Under President Obama
It's not news that there's been a huge spike in gun sales under President Obama - Americans have been buying...
Supreme Court Gives OK To Government DNA Databases
According to the Supreme Court, it's not an unreasonable search for law enforcement to swab an arrested suspect for DNA...
