School Security and Safety Issues

We hear much about school security and safety. What are the key security issues for most schools?

2006 Saw a Resurgence in US Violence Rates

In some parts of the US, violence rates were higher than they have been in decades. Professionals seek the reasons and the cure. Prevention should play a major role in this effort.

Who Will Run Our Prisons?

When pendemic flu strikes, and it will, 50% to 80% of the work force will be home sick. Half of these people will die. Pandemic planning world wide is only beginning to consider such issues as food delivery and electricity. With the rising prison population in the United States, who will run our prisons when half the guards are sick?

New Gift Card Scam Alert

Did you know that the gift card scams you've been hearing about on the news are not the gift card scams you really need to worry about? This article explains why ScamBusters is warning that it is the little-known gift card scams that pose the biggest threats this holiday season.

Setting Up a Neighborhood Mobile Watch Patrol in Northwest Los Angeles

One way a community can combat crime is to get with the business community and set up a neighborhood watch patrol, where local companies on their routes with work vehicles report suspicious behavior to authorities. It works.

Cracking Down on Drunk Drivers

In an attempt to reduce alcohol-related fatalities and injuries on our highways, laws aimed at drunken drivers have been passed. We have to be careful, however, because some of these laws can be too excessive and intrusive for a civilized society.

The Black Market in Human Organs

People who agree to sell their organs may consider selling a liver in order to renovate the house. Poor families desperate to send a son or daughter to university, might be equally tempted. One man said he was doing it to purchase a home for relatives back in Pakistan.

Pirates Attack Humanitarian Relief Vessel

A humanitarian relief vessel, on a mission to deliver 1,800 tons of food to Somalia, has been attacked by pirates. The whereabouts of the ship and its crew are still unknown at this time.

Online Child Abuse Is Not What We Should Be Targeting

In the UK, the home secretary has announced plans to increase the risks of sex offenders by ensuring that their online details including usernames and email addresses are published on the sex offenders register when caught. This is a positive step, although we all know that emails can be forged or changed and usernames are fluid. But it does, however, represent steps towards trying to make online life safer, especially for children.

Legal Phone Scams

How to lose your shirt the quick and easy way with this common legal scam.

Reptiles Are Stolen

Have you ever thought of stealing a reptile? Why would you want to and what would you do with the stolen goods?

Behind The Crime Scene Tape

A crime writers experience at a murder scene.

Stun Gun - Physiological Effects

Have ever watched the TV show Star Trek and heard of the Romulan disruptor stun weapon? Have you ever thought about what it disrupts? Does it disrupt all the molecules in the person on the receiving end of the ray gun? What about a real stun gun? What does a real stun gun disrupt?

How to Stay Safe When Traveling

The most vulnerable time in your life when you are most likely to be a victim of an attack is when you are traveling in an area not very well known to you.