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1970s Origins of Accelerated Rise of Nonwhite Incarceration in the US

April 25, 2015 – 9:36 pm

Case Study Using Data From the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The BOP is the one jurisdiction administering penal facilities in the United States that has maintained relatively accurate records since its 1930 founding, even though definitions of race have not been consistent. 1. Incarcerated federal prisoners on June 30, 1952 totaled 18,896 (75% White, […]

Corporation’s Usurpation of Democracy is as US American as Apple Pie

April 24, 2015 – 1:30 pm

The first authors who alerted me to the nature and problems of corporations were Morton J. Horowitz, The Transformation of American Law, 1780-1860 (Harvard University Press, 1977); and Edwin Sutherland’s White Collar Crime (Dryden Press, 1949), which edition conveniently omitted the explosive list of criminal corporations and their list of violations. The UNCUT version was […]

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Mahatma Gandhi’s two-prong program: (1) noncooperation, & (2) constructive alternative

December 29, 2014 – 9:24 pm

In the mid-1930s, Gandhi (1869-1948), when in his 60s, began demonstrating a significant shift in his emphasis and thinking. He had been significantly influenced by reading Leo Tolstoy’s The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894) in which Tolstoy wrote of the power of disassociation from the state altogether in numerous self-reliant communities. In fact, […]

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The Importance of the December 1914 Christmas Truce

December 2, 2014 – 9:20 pm

In December 1914, an amazing outbreak of peace, though brief, occurred when as many as 100,000 of the million troops, or ten percent, stationed along the 500 mile Western Front in World War I, mutually, and spontaneously, stopped fighting for at least 24-36 hours, December 24-26. Isolated instances of local truces occurred at least as […]

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DOMESTIC SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) TEAMS

October 25, 2014 – 10:27 am

Los Angeles Creates First SWAT The first tactical, quasi-military domestic police team was formed in the Los Angeles Police Department in 1967 for special assignments as needed. The concept was provoked by sniping incidents during and after the six day Watts Riot in 1965, when 34 people were officially reported killed, 1,100 injured, 4,000 arrested, […]

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