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Crime and Justice

Crime and Justice

Video: Rosemount child almost hit by driver ignoring school bus signal

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 9, 2017, 12:06 PM Oct 9, 2017
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Aside from the obvious, what’s particularly upsetting about this Minnesota State Patrol video is that the pick-up driver didn’t bother slowing down, even when he was about to hit the kid crossing the street after being dropped off by a school bus (with flashing red lights).
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Crime and Justice

Scrubbing swastikas

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 6, 2017, 2:03 PM Oct 6, 2017
2

St. Cloud police are investigating another incident in which someone sprayed a swastika at North Junior High School. Read more →

Crime and Justice

When the justice system breaks

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 6, 2017, 11:53 AM Oct 6, 2017
7

Sometimes, we’re a little too myopic when patting ourselves on the back for the system of justice we have in America.

There is theory and, then again, there is reality and the reality is for many people, the system is corrupt. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Media ‘feeding frenzy’ did not influence jury in murder trial, court rules

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 4, 2017, 10:48 AM Oct 4, 2017
0

By most accounts Thomas Sonnenberg was a Good Samaritan; that’s how Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman characterized him at a press conference, and that’s how most media in the Twin Cities characterized him.
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Crime and Justice

Father of daughter shot in Las Vegas not mad at gunman

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 4, 2017, 7:27 AM Oct 4, 2017
58

‘I’m a Second Amendment person. The weapon didn’t do it. It was the person behind it,’ the man said at his daughter’s bedside.
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Crime and Justice

MN court: Ex-spouses not entitled to share of military pay

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 2, 2017, 11:11 AM Oct 2, 2017
4

The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday ruled that a spouse is not entitled to a share of military disability benefits, even if the two agree to it in their divorce settlement. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Open thread: The shooting

Bob CollinsBob Collins October 2, 2017, 9:21 AM Oct 2, 2017
156

We have a problem and on talk shows throughout the nation so far today, we’re having another discussion about the constitutional rights of Americans, a week after another debate about the constitutional rights of Americans in a different context. Again, the irony fairly hurts.
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Crime and Justice · Education

Report: State board says it’s not its job to report sexual misconduct of teachers

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 27, 2017, 9:03 AM Sep 27, 2017
12

The Minnesota Board of Teaching reportedly has been aware of allegations of sexual misconduct of teachers, but has not told law enforcement authorities of several cases because it doesn’t have a responsibility to. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Lots of drunk driving, but little outrage as the toll mounts in Minnesota

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2017, 3:49 PM Sep 26, 2017
23

It’s been a big week for drunks on the highway. Every week is in Minnesota and many other locations where the slaughter of innocent people hardly registers a blip anymore. Read more →

Crime and Justice · Regional history

A Minneapolis cop was executed 25 years ago

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 26, 2017, 8:37 AM Sep 26, 2017
1

It was 25 years ago that an attempt to quell gang warfare in Minneapolis ended when a gang murdered a cop while he ate pizza during a break in his shift. Read more →

Crime and Justice

MN court: Judge can’t force woman to sell home for not making mortgage payments

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 25, 2017, 10:48 AM Sep 25, 2017
4

When Steven and Cheryl Johnson, of Carlton County, were divorced in December 2012, she got the house with the provision that the expenses for it were entirely up to her. [Wife] is awarded the homestead free from any claim or interest by [husband]. [Wife] is also solely responsible for the . . . taxes, utilities Read more →

Crime and Justice

Wisconsin constitutional question: Do you have a right to swear at your child?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 21, 2017, 8:25 AM Sep 21, 2017
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Ginger Breitzman, 44, a Wisconsin mother, yelled at her son after he burned some popcorn. Her tirade included a generous helping of obscenities.

Is she protected by the First Amendment? Read more →

Crime and Justice

How the government seizes your property just because it can

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 13, 2017, 12:25 PM Sep 13, 2017
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When you consider the brouhaha that eminent domain — the government taking your land because it can do better with it — created as an issue a few years ago, it’s amazing that civil forfeiture doesn’t cause the outrage it should.
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Crime and Justice · Politics

MN Supreme Court throws out law against disorderly conduct at meetings

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 13, 2017, 11:08 AM Sep 13, 2017
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The Court ruled in the case of Robin Hensel, of Little Falls, who was cited for disorderly conduct after she moved her chairs closer to city councilors at a meeting, days after the Council rescheduled a meeting when Hensel displayed signs that depicted dead and deformed children, blocking the view of others in the audience. Read more →

Crime and Justice

Why should we have to pay for credit reporting firm’s blunder?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 13, 2017, 6:44 AM Sep 13, 2017
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I don’t have much choice in this underreported affair; I have to freeze my credit at not only Equifax, but every other major credit reporting firm. And I had to pay for each one. Read more →

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