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11.10.2009 6:35 pm

Driving while bullying

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

       I was standing in the lunch line one day in seventh grade when an eighth grade boy tried to cut in front of me.  I was a shy child but somehow I managed to summon the courage to tell…

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10.27.2009 6:11 pm

St. Louis police chief has high standards for his department

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I was heartened by the two letters that appeared in the Sunday edition of your paper regarding police conduct. Both Chief Isom and Ms. Joyce hit a home run with their comments, and it is nice to see that they are…
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10.13.2009 6:48 pm

One sheriff in Arizona is writing the playbook on immigration enforcement

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

One wonders when the so called free press of America is going to start touting the patriotic actions of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio. This man is doing more than any other law enforcement official in the entire United States…

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09.30.2009 5:17 pm

What happens when you try to report a meth house

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

What do I say to my young neighbor, seeking advice, when she wants to report a possible drug house in our neighborhood? “Call the Sheriff’s Department”. It seems simple, you would think. You would also think that in the Methamphetamine…

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08.06.2009 6:43 pm

Don’t jump to conclusions on race

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

This is in response to the letter from Jenna Kotch in the Sunday, 8/2/09, Post-Dispatch.

 

How one can state with such certainty that race was behind the incident?  No one except Mr. Gates and the officer knows exactly what transpired that…

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08.03.2009 5:25 pm

The right to be right and the law of dealing with the law

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

All the media coverage of the arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates and the subsequent remarks of President Obama brought up old memories  for me.  Many years ago when my children were little I was stopped by the Collinsville…

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06.09.2009 6:16 pm

We have the power to stop the Clemons execution

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The widow of the man we executed on May 20th made some profound points in her editorial.  Dennis Skillicorn was, undoubtedly, responsible for his part in some awful crimes even though he never actually killed anyone.  He had 14 years…

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06.09.2009 6:14 pm

Slay must demand greater police presence

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Based on recent articles in the Post-Dispatch, it seems that troops in Iraq are less likely to meet a violent end than males residing in north St. Louis.

The situation in St. Louis is disgusting and intolerable.

President Harry Truman had a…

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06.04.2009 6:26 pm

It could be driving skills, not racism

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Responding to the recent article citing statistics of racial profiling while driving in the state of Missouri. Before laying blame on the law enforcement community for these numbers, perhaps the broader picture should be painted first.

 

It’s wrong that blacks are…

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06.02.2009 5:50 pm

Why pile pain on top of pain?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The piece by Paula Skillicorn, widow of Dennis Skillicorn, is a powerful reminder of the suffering caused by the death penalty. First, the family of the murder victim, Richard Drummond, has had to suffer for years, having to re-live that…

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