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Shouldn’t make a difference if you are not a criminal!
WESTMINSTER – The Orange County Human Trafficking Task Force and the Westminster Police Department, the lead agency on the task force, have received a $1.2 million state grant to train law enforcement and emergency responders statewide about child trafficking issues…<more>

“After he let me live I wished he killed me.”
Such were Debbie Smith’s words after describing a rape she endured nearly 20 years ago when a masked man abducted her from her home and took her to a nearby woods where he repeatedly raped her.
Early this week, Smith took to Capitol Hill to share her story with a Senate panel in an attempt to urge them to eliminate the startling backlog of untested rape kits in the U.S.
Exactly how many rape kits are we talking about? <more>

The Dallas Police Chief, David Kunkle, has admitted that his officers wrote 39 citations to people over the past 3 years for not speaking English.
It would make a great Onion piece, except it is true.
Who would actually pay this ludicrous citation? The most vulnerable people who are either new to this country and do not know the law or those that feel bullied into paying citations for offenses they never committed simply to avoid additional prosecution under the law…<more>