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John Oliver calls out inequality in the bail-bond system in US Courts

June 6, 2015. The Washington Post reports on how Comedy talk-show host, John Oliver, is shining the bright light of comedy-truth on the darkest secret of the United States Justice System.  The Bail-Bond system disproportionately punishes the poor who often have to choose between criminal charges of which they are innocent or sitting in jail for […]

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Taser Danger

Tasers are essentially electric shock guns. They are aimed with a laser target and shoot metal barbs attached to wires into a person and the gun then sends electric impulses that disable muscles temporarily. They are officially classified as non-lethal weapons. Police like them because they are less likely to be injured when taking down […]

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Man charged with DUI for letting his 15 year daughter drive when he was drunk

May 14th, 2015: Aol news reported that 43-year-old Jason Phipps was arrested for DUI after letting his sober 15-year-old daughter drive him and his wife who were intoxicated using her learner’s driver’s license after the Zac Brown Band Concert in Alpharetta at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater.  The argument posed by police is that you have […]

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The Newspaper.com reports on Georgia Supreme Court Intoxilyzer Source Code Ruling

TheNewspaper.com reported on February 18, 2015, about the Georgia Supreme Court’s ruling in Parker v. State reversing the Georgia Court of Appeals who had affirmed the Trial Court’s decision to exclude proffered evidence of accuracy problems that an out of state witness from the Intoxilyzer 5000 (Intox 5000) manufacturer, CMI, Inc., might be expected to testify about as […]

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Two NHTSA Marijuana Studies find there is no real evidence of danger

Feb. 10, 2015. Denver Colorado’s Channel 9 reports on two National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) studies that find that there is no evidence of any impairment that correlates with THC or the active intoxicating ingredient of Marijuana. Another study found that while alcohol DUI drivers are 400% more likely to have an accident than […]

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Macon Telegraph reports DUI convictions down 26 percent since 2008

February 4th, 2015. The Macon Telegraph reports that DUI convictions are down from 44,017 DUI convictions in 2008 falling to 32,514 in 2013. The causes are debated. Some suggest more people are refusing the test which makes convictions more difficult. Some suggest that is a reporting problem. Others claim that it is because of budget […]

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Uber.com and the free market beat police at DUI reduction

Entrepreneur.com reported on August 25th, 2015 that  Uber has a bigger impact on DUI deaths than law enforcement. Imagine a world where market forces make the world safer than police, courts, and incarceration. According to researchers at Temple University, a study saw a 3.5 % to 5% reduction in one year in cities where Uber.com operated. […]

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WSB reports that Atlanta Police are Disbanding their HEAT Unit – DUI Taskforce

Friday, January 23, 2015: WSB Reports that the Atlanta Police Department (APD) is disbanding its DUI Taskforce and spreading the six officers on the Unit across the department to train more officers.  Rumors on the street are that responsible APD officials actually forgot to timely file the grant paperwork necessary to fund the DUI Unit with […]

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The U.S. Supreme Courts Massive Blind Spot

Radley Balko writes in the Washington Post on January 22, 2015, about the massive blind spot of experience on the U.S. Supreme Court on how criminal justice actually works on the street and in the courtroom.  The reality is that most Judges have never worked as Defense Attorneys, stared into the desperate eyes of the […]

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