The law and the jungle

Hell to get old, ain't it, Luther?

Although he was one of the early pioneers of Miami Beach's Memorial Day hip hop extravaganza, even Luther Campbell says he no longer makes his way to South Beach during that weekend because it's become too rowdy.

If you find yourself in trouble, and public safety agencies have to rescue you, well, that's what they're there for. But what if your peril is the result of acting like a damn fool?

Those who trigger such responses should be held to account if they knowingly create the circumstances from which they must be rescued.

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A judge has thrown out drunken driving counts against an Indianapolis cop who crashed into motorcyclists and killed him, essentially on a technicality, leaving him to face only one felony count of reckless homicide:

 The ruling dealt a blow to Prosecutor Terry Curry's efforts to show that Bisard was driving drunk when his police cruiser crashed into three motorcyclist Aug. 6 on the Northeastside.

This isn't too scary:

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has begun field testing new technology designed to identify people who intend to commit a terrorist act.

It's definitely a good day when a liberal columnist takes The New York Times to task for being so surprised that violent crime is now at nearly a 40-year low despite the recession followed by a very weak recovery:. Says Richard Cohen:

Remember when Australia was seen as the last bastion or rugged individualism and a lot of people in this country were talking about moving there to escape the wussification of America? But the country's already tough anti-smoking laws are set to become the harshest in the world, and Aussies won't even be able to cuss about it:

It can get kind of tricky when you have two experts testifying in court who contradict each other, as happened in the case of Latisha Lawson, on trial for the murder of her 2-year-old son:

Another unanswered question is whether Lawson was sane at the time of Jezaih's death. Two doctors

For all their tough talk about cracking down on illegal immigration, Indiana legislators actually passed only two pretty weak measures, one denying in-state tuition at state-supported universities and the other revoking some tax credits for businesses that hire illegal immigrants. That doesn't mean the critics have been silenced or mollified:

The ACLU of Indiana is filing a lawsuit on behalf of foreign-born people Wednesday over immigration laws Gov. Mitch Daniels recently signed.

As an NFL fan, guess that makes me a ticking time bomb just ready to explode into a crime spree:

Ravens star Ray Lewis issues a stern warning. He says if there is no football, crime will increase across the country.

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Lewis painted a grim picture across America of people without jobs and nothing to do on Sundays.

It could happen here:

The Supreme Court, in a narrow 5-4 decision, has an upheld an injunction by a three-judge panel ordering California to release about 46,000 inmates -- more than one-fourth the state prison population -- over the next two years to relieve overcrowding.