Apr 11, 2005 | News Releases
An exposé by USAToday on the Clinton-era Community Oriented Policing Services (‘COPS’) project shows the program wasted millions of dollars, never put the promised 100,000 new police on the streets, and has not been a panacea to crime. The COPS program was...
Apr 7, 2005 | News Releases
The Milwaukee, Wis. District Attorney’s office “made the right call” in deciding not to file any charges against a 64-year-old man who fatally shot one of five youths who attacked him in a gas station April 3, the Citizens Committee for the Right to...
Apr 7, 2005 | News Releases
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) today applauded New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson for signing legislation that expands his state’s concealed carry law, allowing more citizens to legally arm themselves for personal protection....
Mar 28, 2005 | News Releases
Disclosure that the Chicago, Ill. Police department has apparently been “experimenting” with tiny microphones in unmarked police cars that can pick up nearby conversations on the street is yet another civil rights slap in the face in a city where...
Mar 25, 2005 | News Releases
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich has once again placed the Democratic Party’s agenda of anti-gun bigotry ahead of the rights of law-abiding citizens to own firearms and defend themselves, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) said...
Mar 8, 2005 | News Releases
By Alan Gottlieb and Joe Waldron Forgive us for asking, but how might civil rights activists and editorialists react if they learned that a United States Senator wants to keep personal records on people suspected of carrying the AIDS virus, even though they have...
