Good afternoon from Capitol Hill. There continue to be more questions than answers as it relates to the FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago. However, this morning Judge Bruce Reinhart rejected the Justice Department’s argument to keep the affidavit under seal. The affidavit would likely describe, among other things, the assertion of probable cause that President Trump had...
Law enforcement agencies failed to notify the FBI about nearly half of homicides of American Indians and Alaskan Natives committed from 1999 to 2017, according to a study by the nonprofit Murder Accountability Project (MAP). The study found Indian murders are the least likely of any racial group to be reported to the federal Supplementary Homicide Report (SHR) which...
The nonprofit Murder Accountability Project (MAP) has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Bureau of Indian Affairs and other federal law enforcement agencies for failing to obey a 31-year-old Congressional mandate that homicides and other major crimes must be reported to the Uniform Crime Report (UCR), the...
Eric Warren Witzig, a veteran District of Columbia homicide detective who went on to investigate major serial murder cases for the FBI, has died following a lengthy battle with liver cancer. At the time of his February 18 death, Witzig was vice chairman and a founding director of the nonprofit Murder Accountability Project. He was 73. Eric W. Witzig Witzig was a...
The rates at which state and local police departments are reporting homicides to the FBI vary alarmingly in the United States, challenging policy makers and everyday citizens in understanding the nature of violent crime in their communities. This is especially important in recent years during a period of unusually high murder rates. The Centers for Disease Control...