I want to you to consider joining an uphill struggle. That struggle is to defeat Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell in the upcoming election. I’m suggesting you consider contributing to political groups dedicated to voting him out, to ending his relentless effort to dismantle our democratic republic. Or at least give him the election battle of his life. Most … [Read more...] about Ditch Mitch McConnell—You’ll have to Hurry
Crime
A Look at Rank and File Police Racism
In several of my videos I mentioned I was on the crime and corruption beat for decades. I was around police officers, mostly good, some bad, for many, many years. I can say from experience, racism is NOT a case of a few bad apples. It’s endemic in some police departments. The extent of the racism disease among our occasional protectors in blue is open to debate. The … [Read more...] about A Look at Rank and File Police Racism
Why Police Brutality is a Management Failure
Police killings of blacks and brutality toward minorities is a hot-button political issue in this election year. I want to share the views of a man who knows a lot about these problems. Rudolfo “Rudy” Thomas is a retired Deputy Police Chief from Detroit, one of the toughest, racially-charged cities in America. He thinks hostility and distrust between the nation’s police and … [Read more...] about Why Police Brutality is a Management Failure
White Boy Rick and Big Meech—Sometimes Crime Pays
I was astonished, or gob-smacked to use a popular term, when Richard “White Boy Rick” Wershe walked out of prison in Florida recently. He’s been in prison for 32 years. He was recruited by the FBI at age 14 to be the Bureau’s youngest paid drug informant. When he got in trouble with drugs, the FBI wouldn’t help him. They’d have to admit they were using a kid as a drug … [Read more...] about White Boy Rick and Big Meech—Sometimes Crime Pays
White Boy Rick—He’s Now A Free Man
The youngest paid drug informant in the history of the FBI has spent his entire adult life in prison. He is finally free, released from a halfway-house prison in Florida. Wearing a black T-shirt which said ‘Free Big Meech’, Richard J. Wershe, Jr. – known to the public as White Boy Rick – walked to a waiting car and his girlfriend. The pair and a driver drove away. Big … [Read more...] about White Boy Rick—He’s Now A Free Man