Toledo loves their cops

At a recent public hearing in Toledo, a parade of people showed up to testify about their police department. Probably no one was more surprised than the cops themselves, when every person who spoke had nothing but nice things to say about the officers who work for the Toledo, Ohio P.D.

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Lawyer spits on cop

What do you call 1,000 lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? A good start. And it's not hard to see why that old joke is still funny when you consider the case of one Lewis B. Moon. Moon, an attorney, stands accused of being drunk, driving the wrong way in a fast-food drive-thru lane, impersonating law enforcement and then spitting on a police officer.

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Prescription drug abuse is epidemic

One of the main flaws with the drug war is its singular focus on supply rather than demand. As long as there is a demand for illicit drugs, suppliers will find a way to satisfy it. And the demand is overwhelming. According to an article in the Los Angeles Times by Lisa Girion and Doug Smith, prescription drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United States.

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