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Can Ohio State Highway Patrol troopers be trusted with their firearms?

12:07pm Tuesday, June 10, 2003

Last week, we reported about Trooper DeLong, a woman who has failed to qualify with her firearm on two separate occasions , has been suspended for abusing the law enforcement database for personal use, and has been fired (then reinstated) from a post at the Statehouse for sleeping while on duty. We also told you about Trooper Burd, a three-time "trooper of the year" who has been fired from his...

Letter to the Editor: Statistics show concealed carry won’t reduce crime

7:42am Sunday, June 08, 2003

In the final days before anticipated Senate votes on HB12, the Columbus Dispatch has printed a response to Dr. John Lott's April 24 op-ed, and in doing so, Dispatch editors signaled they're ready to do their best to aid anti-self-defense extremists in a last ditch effort to defeat HB12. UPDATE! In the hours following the publishing of the letter, it has been confirmed by Ohioans For Concealed...

The evidence OSHP Superintendant Paul McClellan can't find

1:46pm Saturday, June 07, 2003

At the behest of the Taft administration, Ohio State Highway Patrol leadership has repeatedly voiced its opposition to any concealed carry reform law that allows persons to exercise their right to self-defense in an automobile. In opponent testimony before the Ohio House Criminal Justice committee, Capt. John Born argued in favor of keeping in place a ban on carrying loaded weapons in cars ,...

Tale of Two Cities: Columbus man kidnapped/robbed; CA jeweler foils attempt

11:40am Saturday, June 07, 2003

Saturday, June 07, 2003 Police were searching for three men who kidnapped a North Side man yesterday and forced him to drive to his Westerville workplace, where they made him open the safe. Authorities were also looking for a fourth man, who drove the getaway car. The four got away with an undisclosed amount of money. The kidnapped man escaped uninjured. The three kidnappers grabbed the man just...

Columbus homicide rate climbing

10:52am Saturday, June 07, 2003

Murder is on the rise in the capital city. There have been 5 murders in 2 weeks in the Columbus area. Since January, 47 people in Columbus have been the victim of a homicide. If the violence continues as this pace, the murder rate will top last year's numbers. Eighty-one people were murdered in Columbus in 2002. After months of record-setting pace in Cincinnati homicides, a bit of reprieve has...

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Dispatch: Trooper went too far, Zanesville motorist says

5:45pm Friday, June 06, 2003

Melody Butts concedes she deserved a ticket for unthinkingly passing a stopped school bus on Rt. 40 east of Zanesville. However, the nurse says she did not deserve the face full of Mace and night in jail that followed the arrival of a state trooper at her home later that day to write her up for the offense. "She was treating me like a criminal for a traffic violation,’" Butts said of her May 28...

Enquirer: Cincinnati's record pace of homicides slows

11:48am Friday, June 06, 2003

Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher is crediting that city's tougher stance on criminals who use guns in the commission of their crimes for slowing what was a record pace of homicides this year. The program, known as Project Safe Neighborhoods, was created nearly two years ago in response to the city's most violent summer in decades. Streicher says the homicide numbers, while only a modest...

Tale of Two Cities: Akron deliverymen robbed; Pittsburgh robber shot

6:11pm Thursday, June 05, 2003

As the weather warms, crime against restaurant delivery workers tends to rise. Robbers are more comfortable lurking outside in the shadows, waiting at a phony address, having provided a bogus phone number, police say. ``Although there hasn't been a significant change, there does seem to be a rise in restaurant delivery robberies,'' said Capt. Daniel Zampelli of the Akron Police Department. ``Our...