<h1 class="entry-title">Category: NEPBA Police Updates</h1>

What we learned from California's Prop 47 in 2015

Author: Harriet Fox The year 2015 was the year of early release. In October, some 6,000 prisoners were identified for early release into their communities as part of the federal government’s “retroactive sentencing reductions for nonviolent drug offenders.” That was only the latest news on the topic. Probably the most important example of early release […]

Colo. Planned Parenthood shooter wants to act as own lawyer

By Sadie Gurman Associated Press COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A man who acknowledges killing three people in an attack on a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic defiantly told a judge Wednesday that he would not submit to a mental competency evaluation and wanted to fire his public defender and represent himself. Robert Dear, 57, interrupted Judge […]