Chicago, IL—I was born and raised here, growing up in challenging circumstances with a dysfunctional, single mother who often left me to fend for myself. Whether she abandoned me with friends or sent me off to a boys' home for three years, I was forced to navigate a childhood of extreme poverty and neglect. By age 14, I had no choice but to get a full-time job and find my own apartment, or face being placed into foster care. Survival meant lying about my age, which I did to secure a job at Jake’s Pup in the Ruff in the Uptown neighborhood. By day, I attended Senn High School, and by night, I ran the hotdog stand alone. I found a small apartment and convinced the landlord I was 18. From there, things gradually improved, and I was thrust into adulthood much earlier than most. The reason I share this background is to highlight my understanding of the realities of poverty, hunger, and parental neglect—issues that plague Chicago’s ghettos. However, despite those hardships, I didn’t gr...

Los Angeles, CA— Growing up in the 1950s and 60’s, I never saw the so-called "homeless people" living in garbage on our streets. Such a sight was unheard of in our cities back then. The financial impact of homelessness on our cities and population is astronomical. These individuals damage property, set fires, assault, annoy, intimidate, injure, and even kill innocents. The cost of their crimes includes not just the damage they cause, but also the additional expenses for police, criminal prosecution, defense, and judicial services. In the past, we enforced laws against vagrancy, public intoxication, and drug use. Most importantly, those who were a danger to themselves or others were placed in secure mental heath facilities. However, liberals decided that involuntary commitments and jailing people for "being poor" were inhumane. In reality, allowing people to live in filth and life-threatening conditions is far more inhumane. Tolerated homelessness has clearly impacte...

Your City, USA —During Post slavery and Civil War Reconstruction, law enforcement was primitive and significantly challenged. Crime was out-of-control and there were insufficient police resources to deal with it.  The only immediate answer was to draft a vigilante militia force to protect the public.    The first significant response was the creation of the Ku Klux Klan .  They took a pretty much a terrorist approach wearing their hoods to conceal their identities.      The Klan slowed down crime all right.  It was in part because the sight of alleged offenders hanging from various trees that made quite an impression.     There was only a couple of problems in that there was a lack of due process, trials and accordingly no appeals.  Punishments were influenced by anger, prejudice and the amount of alcohol that Klan members were consuming.    The Klan was quite popular and many of our respected Democrat Congressmen were mem...

I had to return to Chicago for an investigation of tragic proportions.  Needless to say my camera came along for some of the sights and sounds of The Windy City.

This case was prosecuted for purly political reasons!

Isla Vista, CA —Yes, I’m calling him, The YouTube Maniac .   Elliot Rodger was a very affluent young man with a sleek black BMW living in the paradise of this coastal community.  The problem was this fellow was an apparent serious social looser who could not get laid.  He was also under the out patient care of a psychiatrist.   The killer was the 22-year-old son of Peter Rodger , an assistant director on the wildly successful Hunger Games film series.   This young man traveled the world with his father and actress stepmother.   This privileged youngster had access to stunning stars like Jennifer Lawrence and Katy Perry.  Last night, the young Rodger stabbed three people to death then drove around looking for young women to shoot and kill.  Before it was over seven lay dead.  Police have not yet released the names, ages or sex of any of Rodger’s victims. Before his rampage, Rodger placed a nearly seven minute video o...

If you never owned a dog your life has been incomplete.  Owning a dog is not difficult or burdensome.  The only bar to dog ownership are serious allergies, landlord prohibitions or you’re gone away from home for long periods of time.  Today there are a surprising number of dog friendly employers that allow pets to be brought to work.  I’ve even seen this at locally owned TV stations.  I think many companies are learning that being dog friendly is actually good for business, productivity and certainly employee morale.   Dogs are a tremendous cure for depression and walking them insures you get more exercise and perhaps a longer life.  Dogs are also wonderful matchmakers for their unattached owners!  Dogs make it a lot easier for members of the opposite sex to approach each other on the street.  Egos always interfere with our first meetings but when a dog is present ego problems seem to simply vanish.     A dog will...

Los Angeles, CA —In addition to the felons and mental patients we know about there are some 11,000,000 people that are forbidden to possess guns in America.  Illegal aliens are currently in the class of prohibited possessors.  Most of them are from Mexico or Central America.   Things being the way they are we cannot determine these alien's criminal histories in their home nations.  Try getting criminal and mental health records from any of our Southern neighboring nations.  Background checks in that regard simply cannot be accomplished.   If our government grants Green Card status or citizenship to the illegal aliens they will automatically be able to purchase, possess and carry firearms.   We will have no way of knowing if they have criminal records for wife beating, robbery, rape burglary, drug trafficking in their own countries.  How about the dangerous mentally ill among them?  It only makes sense that once criminals are dis...

Tempe, AZ —Tempe criminal lawyer, Joseph Palmisano , 48 is being held for Kidnapping, Attempted Murder and Aggravated Assault today.  Apparently the lawyer’s secretary’s former boyfriend, Ryan Hall , 25 was at the law office when something went terribly wrong. Hall was conscious and talking to paramedics and police and is being treated at a local hospital where he was listed in serious condition.   Somehow this case has the familiar impression of self-defense.   It’s unlikely that the lawyer talked to police because of his training and experience.   With only one participant talking to police, cops can be counted upon to label the loser of the battle the victim as the arrest the winner as the suspect.   We will have to see how this case shakes out but the defense investigation was made for the best self defense specialist private investigator I know at www.selfdefensrpi.blogspot.com www.selfdefensepi.blogspot.com to find the necessary answers. Okay...

The United States is always viewed as more violent and singled out by gun related homicides.   To begin I don’t really think it matters how someone is murdered. Is it any better to be strangled, stabbed, poisoned or beaten to death? Europe for all but the last 35 years has not had racially or culturally diverse populations.  Everywhere there is diversity culture clash in Europe violence has increased.  The Nanny state of the UK has alarming crime and violence with their immigrant population.  The UK is in such a state of panic they are regulating the manufacture of kitchen knives eliminating sharp points!  The UK's perception of weapons laws are somewhat bizarre. With each new weapon law they make crime escalates.  The vast regions of the United States have few or no homicides.  They mirror any European nation in crime statistics.  Oddly enough these are areas that are controlled by Republican or Conservative politicians.  Th...

St. Louis, MO —Last April the NRA held its Convention here.  More than 60,000 attendees came to see both the political side and the large gun show.   The NRA visits scattered locations throughout the nation every year. These conventions are never held in the gun-unfriendly states but in states where the attendees can carry loaded and concealed firearms.  The various convention centers must suspend any gun carry prohibitions they may have any in order to win the NRA’s business. Never less that 60,000 NRA people, most all of them well armed stay for about five or six days in these cities.  The crime rate never rises and there’s never been a known arrest of an attendee for violence.  You also never hear about the NRA attendees being robbed, raped or murdered.  The cowardly local criminals always lay low when the NRA is in town.  Across this nation there have been tens of thousands of gun shows and again nobody settles their arguments...

Chicago, IL—The Windy City has been off to a violent start of summer. They have a major shortage of officers to deal with crime. There is a simple solution to deal with this urban nightmare. Ignoring this problem will have dire consequences affecting rental property, businesses and the quality of life for years to come. Chicago’s lost enough taxpayers to safer and less hostile communities. There are several thousand honorably retired Chicago cops around. Loads of them are fit, trained and still have their uniforms and equipment. They can be brought back to cover weekends and evening hours. These officers can be assigned, to less strenuous beats while the younger officers are sent to do the heavy lifting. The retirees should not be forced to reside within the city because many of them moved upon retirement to the suburbs. This will not exceed the overtime rates of regular officers.

Chicago, IL —Let me begin by saying that African-Americans born and raised in Chicago have made important contributions to our military, public safety, medicine, arts, entertainment and business.  This is not an attempt to denigrate people on account of skin color. Nobody knows the truth more than the productive and law-abiding African Americans that have tried to make the Windy City a better place.  This is more about misplaced sensitivities, dangerous and shameful denial. As temperatures rise here African-American criminals commute from South and west side ghettos to stalk, beat, rob, rape and kill white people on Chicago’s Gold Coas t.  This phenomenon is fueled by avarice, greed and simple racial hate.  If they can achieve sufficient numbers unstoppable flash mobs savagely swarm businesses and victims.   Bank robber Willie Sutton said it best when a reporter asked him, why he robbed banks?  Sutton answered with a smile, “That’s wher...

San Diego, CA —There are security interests and vital border concerns for Mexico and America. The solutions offered by both nations are intentionally a total farce. Mexico is awash with drugs, government corruption and incredible violence. The lucrative and insatiable illicit US drug market fuels it all. The United States can’t control the addicted or their spending habits. The open border, guarantees the free flow of narcotics along with the criminals that bring them here. Mexico’s officials have been whining that American gun rights, threatens their internal security. Thousands of weapons purchased by the Mexican government fall into the hands of their criminals. Add to it t he efforts of the Obama administration to deliberately ship thousands of guns purchased from licensed American dealers to the same criminals and you have a massive mess. Any claim that either nation’s governments want to repair this disaster is pure hogwash. The cure is a simple one. Mexico and the US coul...

Chicago, IL --Carrying a firearm in this city is forbidden and only the law abiding obey that unconstitutional mandate. So what do you do when government holds you down for muggers, rapists and killers? You do whatever you can to avoid the savages that inflict harm. Here is an idea I had several years ago that is finally being developed. A filter for your GPS that will warn you as you stray near dangerous ghettos. There is no question that this will save lives! I always recommend that law-abiding gun owners always avoid conflict. This application will help you do just that! This ought to prove fun when the Liberals and whiners call this idea racist. No it's all about taking steps to insure personal safety. Microsoft Patents ‘Avoid Ghetto’ Feature For GPS Devices « CBS Seattle

Los Angeles, CA —The Golden State has spent all of its gold and is billions in debt over reckless empire building. That as they opened the doors to millions of illegal aliens they’ve turned into Entitlement Zombies. There is already a huge medical care crisis here. Thousands of business fled from California’s tax tyranny taking needed jobs with them. Of course the uninsured and unemployed have been left behind. California has one of the most lenient criminal justice systems anywhere. Before the courts will send criminals away to a prison they need to rack up as many as five felony convictions. California’s prisons are so overcrowded that the courts have ordered the release of some 60,000 inmates. The deadline is rapidly approaching and the hardened criminals being unleashed will easily outnumber cops by a significant margin. Even if these convicts wanted to get productive employment and go straight they’re unemployable and will face the reality of no jobs in an a...

Phoenix, AZ —After leaving Chicago to open my detective agency in Phoenix I learned that over-reporting crime was all the rage in this city. This sent me into a police culture shock. I had spent my prior years learning that as a policeman my job was to kill crime with my pencil rather than a gun. The City of Chicago wanted to create an illusion of low crime and at the same time show our uncanny ability to solve the more serious crimes at a much higher rate than the national average. Crime reporting nationwide by police is done through the Uniform Crime Reports made to the FBI . There are the more serious Part One Crimes and then there are the lesser Part Two crimes. The whole thing becomes complicated with those abused, wasted and mismanaged federal funds created and maintained during 50 years of political progressives controlling Congress. The most common examples for Chicago cops are as follows. 1. You respond to a call of a burglary and find no suspects or viable leads to solve ...

Washington, DC —This has been unlike any election campaign season in decades. The difference is because the flow of political information was not being filtered exclusively through three TV networks and publishing giant’s Leftist propaganda monopoly. Cable TV, radio diversity and the Internet has opened the door to free speech. The real political struggle is between American style freedom and One World Socialism . There is no reasonable or acceptable middle-ground for either side. The dream of a One World Socialist Government is designed to prevent dissidents from voting with their feet to leave a miserable nation. Socialist politicians want to be sure there’s no place for their citizens to run. Socialism has always had a really dark history of, mass murder, mass poverty and constant misery. The Party elite always turn the treasury into personal slush funds free of restraint or oversight. The rest of the population must cooperate or face treason charges for the slightest resistance....

Hanover Park was always a quiet family based bedroom community just Northwest of Chicago. That was until politicians forced this village to accept Chicago’s displaced inhabitants of Cabrini Green and other ghetto dwellings. The culprit is so-called Section 8 Housing that provides free or nearly free rent for those who refuse to go to school or work. Murder has spiked in this village of less than 40,000 people to at least one per day. What’s ironic is the people who began this community did it to escape Chicago’s crime and those minority groups that love to wallow in their own blood. These working middle class folks wanted a safe place to educate and raise their children. I visited the posh suburb of Barrington Hills recently only to see lots of Chicago style ghetto cars in grocery store parking lots and African Americans using their government provided free money cards to pay for their purchases. The murders, home invasions, kidnappings, sex assaults and drug culture of Chicago’s ghe...