Be Your Own Detective

Portland OR: A man with an unknown violent past was released or “matrixed” out of jail due to overcrowding, only to be re-arrested for murder 2 days later.
Richard Paul Koehrsen, 45 was hauled in and booked at the Multnomah County Jail on a trespassing charge and public intoxication, and was released the next day, along [...]

New York: Raymond Lorenzo couldn’t figure out for a long time why employers kept declining him for jobs, even after he got a college degree. “I’m everywhere and I’ve applied to everything.”
Later on, he made a shocking discovery. When the college gave him a copy of his criminal background check, he had some serious mistakes [...]

West Bend, Wisconsin: A nosy mother helped police solve a sex case. Noticing suspecious notes and emails in her 13 year old son’s bedroom, she right away discovers a disturbing message from a “Badgervirgo,” so she goes to work on her own snooping online to track down the person’s identity. Her detective work helped crack [...]

About 4.65 Million Americans have lost their right to vote due to felony disenfranchisement laws.
In most states, once somebody is convicted of a felony, their right to vote disappears for a long period of time, sometimes permanently long after the full sentence has been served. As of 2005, 48 states and DC so some [...]

Cincinnati – It’s bad enough when somebody steals your credit, but how about when somebody steals somebody’s identity to turn them into a criminal?
“I’m losing everything I’ve ever worked for in my life.” Says Otis Thomas who was once again fired from another job because he failed an employee criminal background check.
“I’m sorry but I [...]

Trenton, NJ: After bounty hunters broke into the wrong house, a new Bill will impose more restrictions and background checks on bounty hunters. The new law proposed by Sen. Shirley Turner (D-Ewing) would require bounty hunters to register with the State Police and undergo criminal background checks.
Turner: “Unless we put certain common-sense restrictions on bounty [...]

A team of Special Agents, testing the Brady background check system had no trouble “illegally” buying guns in 5 states using phony computer-generated IDs.
The Agents bought the guns from licensed gun dealers in Virginia, West Virginia, Montana, New Mexico, and Arizona from Oct 2000 through Feb 2001.
The Brady background check determines only if a gun [...]

Foreign women who come to the US to marry American men they barely know, don’t know if they might end up with an abusive husband, so they should get better protection.

Over 8000 people in the US have been mistakenly flagged for illegal immigration offenses since the Bush Administration’s new policy of entering immigrants’ names into the FBI crime database went into effect. The intention behind this policy is to apprehend terrorists.
Immigration offenses, commonly overstaying a visa are a civil infraction rather than a criminal [...]

Governor Phil Bredesen ordered The THP, Tennessee Highway Patrol to run criminal background checks on it’s entire department and discovered 48 State Troopers who had criminal records ranging from driver’s license suspensions due to DUIs to felonies including larceny and assault. An astonishing 1 out of every 18 Troopers! 855 make up the entire force.
Under [...]