According to a 2016 news article that ranked Michigan’s cities by rates of violent crime, Detroit was the most violent city, followed closely by Flint and Saginaw. No surprise there, except that Flint had dropped from the top 10 most violent cities in the U.S. to number 11. Detroit was still in the number 2…
Twelve-year-old Mallory Grossman of New Jersey committed suicide in June. Her mother, Diane, who is using the law to try to get to the root of this growing problem, blames the bullying Mallory experienced in person and online for her daughter’s untimely death.
It used to be that in order to get a fake ID you had to know a guy who knew a guy. To get a convincing one, it took a high level of skill. These days, with photo editing software at the fingertips of any iPhone wielding teen, creating a fake ID has never been…
What are the consequences for carrying illegal concealed weapons in Michigan? Could a technicality land someone in prison? Let’s take a look at a case that made headlines in 2017.
Many of us are familiar with getting pulled over for speeding, running a red light or having a busted tail light. These driving violations are called infractions. They may or may not result in a ticket, based on your previous infractions or the judgment of the officer who caught it. What you might not know…
Sometimes people do things without thinking. Of course, there are some types of crimes people know are wrong. Yes, they may feel justified in committing the crime, but they know they will probably be charged with a crime if they do them. The most common crimes in America are not violent crimes.
Did you know that 91 people die every day from opioid abuse in the United States? From 1999 to 2015, the number of overdose deaths involving opioids quadrupled. Four times as many people die today from abusing Methadone, Heroin, OxyContin and Vicodin – for instance – than in 1999, only 17 years ago. According to the…
Why would anyone want to plead guilty to a four-year felony drug charge if they knew it wasn’t the crime they had committed? This is what happened to David A. Dabrowski, 65, of Bangor Township, Michigan. In 2015 police raided David and Sandra Dabrowski’s home after having been tipped off by an anonymous person that…
We all know stealing is wrong. Most of us had that drilled into us as children even before we knew there were more complex moral problems in the world.
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