It was bound to happen because the corporations have actually all but destroyed local news reporting.  There is no more investigative journalism.  And God forbid the professional journalist expose the corruption of local politicians.   Slowly, but surely these Internet reporters are learning their craft and how to use and abuse public records.  The real issue is will their audience financially support them?   They are beginning to succeed with advertisers.  CWB in Chicago.  Cash Jordan likes to go anywhere the action is happening.  Many live streamers are out there. Their failures are in not getting interviews from witnesses and bureaucrats.  That may work self out.  Most of the larger jurisdictions offer educational tours of court houses where court procedures are explained.  I suspected community colleges have programs where people can learn how to dig and tell their stories.  Newspapers have all been disappeared and loca...

Let me begin with the truth. I am not a lawyer. I am a criminal defense investigator with decades in the trenches. Over the past year I have been assigned to defendants in Los Angeles County who are facing the most serious charges on the books, including murder, and many of them have chosen to represent themselves. Everyone knows justice works better, faster, and more fairly when an accused person has competent legal counsel. The Supreme Court locked that principle into our constitutional fabric in Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), which held that even the poorest among us are entitled to counsel at government expense. California extends that logic to investigators because a lawyer without investigative support is fighting blind. Then comes the wrecking ball. Faretta v. California, 422 U.S. 806 (1975), empowered defendants to fire their lawyers and take the wheel of their own defense, no matter how untrained, suspicious, or plainly unfit they may be to navigate a criminal co...

  This isn’t a tale of heroics. It’s a story about luck, timing, and the kind of science that can turn death itself on its heels. In 1968, Uncle Sam decided I should wear an Army uniform. I was soon trained as a light weapons infantryman and given orders to report to the First Air Cavalry in Vietnam. Then fate intervened. Through some bureaucratic twist, one of those “Army miracles,” I was rerouted into on-the-job training as a medical corpsman. That, I quickly learned, was the best job in the Army. I was stationed in Germany. Determined not to wind up hauling trash or scrubbing latrines, I buried myself in medical study. Soon I was assigned to the treatment and surgery room at the largest dispensary in the country, a place where everything from major trauma to childbirth emergencies rolled through the doors. Through a small comedy of errors, nobody realized I wasn’t formally trained. Had they known, they would have shipped me to an ambulance crew. Instead, I found myself stand...

The Democrat Party has morphed back and forth into tyranny since it was created.   Most recently their inviting millions of illegal aliens to invade our nation was an act of treason and sedition.  This massive crime cost Americans and legal immigrants as much as a trillion dollars.   The American working class has been stabbed in the back as the invaders have reset wages to poverty levels.  This has undone so much that labor unions have accomplished for their workers.  American voted to remove these trespassers from our soil.  Since they broke our laws to enter they’re no different than any other enemy combatants.  They simply don’t get American rights and protections.  Any and all physical force needed to remove them is justified.   The problem is the courts and Congress can’t arrive at any workable solution.  Democrats understandably see these invaders as future Democrats that would guarantee a one party democrat America.  We...

  As the silver screen flickers to life with “Nuremberg,” the echoes of that infamous tribunal thunder back into our consciousness, a stark reminder of the legal abyss that swallowed justice whole. This was no solemn American courtroom upholding sacred constitutional principles. No, this was the raw might of the victorious Allies, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the iron-fisted Soviet Union, forging a trial from the ashes of World War II. Yet even among these conquerors, discord raged; they could never unite on how to brand and punish these so-called war crimes. Hear me now: many of these Nazis plunged into unspeakable horrors, their hands drenched in blood, and they reaped the grim harvest they sowed, including the noose’s fatal embrace. My quarrel is not with their guilt, but with the sham of “justice” that condemned them. Crimes were conjured from thin air, laws retroactively birthed, ex post facto abominations utterly forbidden by the American Constitution. The def...

The Glorious Futility of “Technology-Proof” LawAh yes, technology-based laws. The shining dream of bureaucrats everywhere. Because clearly, if you just write the right words on a piece of paper, the laws of physics and human ingenuity will bow in reverence. Let’s pretend for a moment that we’ve achieved the impossible utopia: no one can legally make, sell, or even touch a firearm. Victory, right? Crime solved! Cue the triumphant music! Except, oops, anyone with a few thousand dollars and an internet connection can buy a CNC machine, click a few buttons, and suddenly a shiny new handgun appears like magic. CNC machines, those cold, efficient robots that carve and fabricate with eerie precision, do not care about your laws. They do not care about politics. They just do what they are programmed to do, often better than the humans who write the legislation.  Imagine the radical task of rounding up the 400 million guns that are already in America’s Homes. And if CNCs sound too “high-...

Ah, technology, the modern miracle that lets us talk to anyone on the planet, post our lunch online, and document our own downfall in high definition. With a single swipe, we can send a message to someone halfway around the globe or ruin our lives in record time. Privacy? Who needs that anymore? Apparently not the geniuses who think their phones are invisible to law enforcement. Every call you make leaves a digital fingerprint. Sure, what you say isn’t saved unless someone records it, but the fact that you called, when you called, and how long you talked stays forever. And text messages? Those are like tattoos on the Internet’s hide, permanent, embarrassing, and often regretted. There’s an old saying among cops: You can’t cure stupid, but you can give it a court date. And that’s never been truer than it is today. The vast majority of criminals are walking, talking IQ tests that they keep failing. If they could get what they wanted without committing a crime, they’d still break the l...