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New Documentaries on the Latest Scams
While action-adventure, fantasy, sci-fi, crime, and animated films may rule at the box office, documentaries have been growing in popularity on online platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Max, and Amazon. Especially popular are true crime documentaries, featuring the latest investigation, legal ins and outs, and story of a tragic victim.
Now, two films I developed in this genre have joined this true crime category in a big way. They both feature scams and have interviews with victims, scammers, investigators, and lawyers who are part of this true crime world.
Videos
Why Many Arrested Can’t Afford Bail
Why Many Arrested Can’t Afford Bail is another video based on a chapter in Crime in America. The latest book from American Leadership Books, which specializes in books on the U.S. criminal justice system, the U.S. prison system, U.S. corrections system, and the U.S. courts, prosecutors, and defense attorneys. The book is written from a conservative perspective for those with conservative politics and suggests ways of fixing and reforming the system.
Media & Press Releases
Popular Songs Feature Commentary on Social Problems Today and What to Do About Them
In the early 1960s, folk singers like Woodie Guthrie wrote popular songs about the social issues facing America, and today, there seems to be a revival of these social message songs, sometimes in the form of video parodies. They are a response to the many problems we...
Immigration Reform
Some Suggestions on Fixing the Illegal Immigration Mess
In the previous articles in this series I discussed how the illegal immigrants commit more crimes, especially drug trafficking, and how the crimes they commit add to the crime problem already facing America. The younger more recent illegal immigrants are the prime...
The Opioid Crisis
Countries Using the Death Penalty for Drug Dealers: An Approach that Works in Singapore
In the first article in this series, I described the ravages of an opioid crisis which is killing tens of thousands of victims each year. I also described some proposals to apply more stringent punishments, including the death penalty, to the dealers -- especially the...
The Citizen-Police Divide
HOW MISINFORMATION LEADS TO ANGER AGAINST COPS AND THE SYSTEM
Since the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri by the police in 2014, there has been a growing anger against the police, especially after several more police shootings and other arrest incidents led to deaths. The resulting protests and riots have, in...
Author Paul Brakke is a scientist based in Central Arkansas. He became interested in studying the criminal justice system when his life was turned upside down after his wife was falsely accused of aggravated assault