Category Archives: For Your Information

  The issue of civil forfeiture, particularly in Michigan, has given rise to more heated debates in recent years than most other ‘hot button’ topics. We’ve discussed this subject numerous times in the past, and have worked to keep you updated on proposed bills and changes in state law. But in this particular case, we […]

While there are certainly people who believe that predictive analytics has no legitimate place in our criminal justice system, not everyone agrees with them. Having discussed the opinions of certain detractors in the first installment on this article, we take a look at a few of the people who believe that predictive analytics are the […]

The use of Predictive Analytics is widespread in today’s world, and is exceedingly common in business. From projecting increases in certain sales, to predicting the spending habits of buyers, it has made the cost of doing business for companies all over the world that much easier. But when it comes to the use of predictive […]

  The Michigan Court of Appeals has handed down their much anticipated ruling on who will be deciding the fates of juvenile lifers. The answer is that our judges, not juries will determine that.   According to the ruling, the appeals court convened “a special conflict panel to resolve the conflict between the previous opinion […]

  Life is full of opportunities to take a negative situation or experience and turn it into a lesson you can learn from. To make stepping stones out of your stumbling blocks. To make lemonade from lemons. This is no more true than for Jarrett Adams, who after being wrongly convicted of rape, has begun […]

A judge’s authority to sentence a criminal defendant for nonpayment of court fines and fees, dubbed ‘pay or stay sentences’, have been the source of a great deal of controversy in Michigan law in recent years. But if the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has their way, that is all going to change.   Pay […]

New Tattoo Database Helps Police Track Suspects When searching for someone potentially involved in a crime, the police of yesteryear went door to door, showing pictures of suspects and “people of interest” around in the hopes of getting information. It was a slow and tedious process, and often relied on luck. In this day and age, […]

  A recent study on the LGBT community and the criminal justice system turns out to be very thought-provoking.  Whatever your opinion may be on the subject, the study is an interesting perspective on something that many people do not think about very much.

According to the Jevons Paradox, when technological progress increases the efficiency with which a resource is used, the rate of consumption of that resource will rise because demand will increase as a direct result. This particular reference comes from the industrial revolution in England.  There, coal-burning factories in the city of Manchester, England, so increased […]

Rep. Phelps Wants Criminal Penalties for Data Manipulation At this point, you would have to be living in a shack in the woods somewhere, to have gone without at least hearing about the water crisis in Flint. It’s a poisonous topic, no pun intended, that’s been given a great deal of airtime in recent months. Not […]