Front Porch Politics Talks COVID-19 and Criminal Justice Reform With PBT



Front Porch Politics talks COVID-19 and Criminal Justice Reform with PBT member Ken W. Good.  You can listen to the podcast below.

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Man Who Beat NYPD Chief of Police and 2 Other Officers Released for Free Without Bail

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The man who allegedly beat a top official in the New York City Police Department and two other police officers this week was released from jail without bail.
“Quran Campbell, 25, is accused of socking the highest-ranking uniformed cop [NYPD Chief Terence Monahan] several times in the face as Monahan tried to arrest him after Campbell had allegedly punched another NYPD officer and lieutenant” near the Manhattan approach to the Brooklyn Bridge, The New York Post reported.
The Post noted that a second man, 25-year-old Banks Shaborn, was also arrested for allegedly “clocking the same lieutenant, Richard Mack, of the department’s Strategic Response Group, multiple times in the face during the scuffle.”
Both of Mack’s orbital bones were reportedly broken during the attack.
“They are part of this anarchist group that has been infiltrating this Black Lives movement since the beginning,” Monahan said. “This is what we dealt with since the first protest after George Floyd. It is a legitimate moveme…
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"The Cost of Bail Reform was My Daughter's Life"

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Less than a year ago, life was good.  I was the proud mother of  two beautiful daughters and grandma to the sweetest eight-month old girl  you'd ever seen.  We were planning a gender-reveal for the arrival of  Caitlynne's second baby when everything went wrong.
My daughter's husband, Alex Guajardo, had been on a downward spiral.  In May 2019, he  was arrested for a second DWI and a hit-and-run.  He received what is called a personal recognizance or free PR bond and was released from  jail.  In July, he was arrested again on a charge of assault-family  violence for assaulting Caitlynne, who was then 17-weeks pregnant.  My daughter made a brave move and filed criminal charges against Alex for  beating her up.
Immediately following Alex's arrest, I begged Caitlynne to stay with me so I could protect her and the babies.  She refused.  Caitlynne had convinced herself that the system would protect her.  She reasoned that because her husband was going before a judge to  face a …
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Surrendering to Vigilante Justice: Bail Reform, The War on Accountability

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by Ken W. Good
The concept of accountability has been ingrained into almost every part of our society.  The examples are numerous -- a child may be put into time-out for misbehaving, a student sent to the principal for a violation of rules, and a driver may be given a ticket as a consequence of speeding.  
Accountability has deep roots across the globe.  Leading the successful campaign for India's independence from Britain, Mahatma Gandhi inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world, once saying "It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts."  In the history of much of the world, accountability has been a central tenet.  But this fundamental precept is changing.
Sadly, a war is underway against accountability in society.  The erosion of this concept can be observed in many areas of day-to-day life, such as in our colleges and universities.  As an example, statistics from the University of North Carolina system between fall…
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UPDATE- Federal Judge Attacker Commits Suicide

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The suspect was a white man who wore a face covering and a FedEx uniform, law enforcement sources told ABC News, and he used an ordinary car to make a getaway.
At about 5 p.m. Sunday, the gunman knocked at the door to the family's North Brunswick home. Mark Anderl answered the door and was shot first, before his son was also shot.
"He was shot through the heart," Womack said of Daniel Anderl, who was a student at Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
The suspect was later found dead of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound near Liberty, New York, multiple law enforcement sources told ABC News. A municipal employee discovered the body in a car.
The deceased suspect was an attorney who had a case before Judge Salas in 2015, sources said.
A FedEx package addressed to Judge Salas was discovered in the car, sources said. The suspect who opened fire at the New Jersey home of US District Judge Esther Salas died by suicide near Liberty, NY, multiple law enforcement sources tol…
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