Crime does not discriminate.  Crime can affect residents of all genders, race, abilities and socio-economic status.  The loss can be financial, physical or both. Victimization can steal your sense of safety in your home, your street and your community.   Criminals do not care.  Crime does not know space or time limitations; it can happen anywhere and anytime.

 

April 7-13, 2019 is National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. 

 

The Sherburne County Attorney’s Office works with victims of crime and assists them in securing their rights under the law.  We endeavor to make our service more inclusive and accessible.  We honor both victims of crime and the professionals who serve them not only in April but year round.   The Sherburne County Attorney recognizes that we are strengthened when we join together against those who seek to commit crime.  So please check on your neighbors and report suspicious activity. Be proactive.  Contact your local law enforcement agency to discuss ways to deter crime.  As a victim of a crime, we will work to have your voice heard.  You are not alone.  

 

To answer the grave question of hard working, struggling local tax payers paying taxes for one of the world's richest tech companies: Just Google it! On a related note, it felt refreshing to wholeheartedly agree with Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's opposition to Amazon subsidies for the richest man in the world. 

 

In the micro-local economic sense such subsidies may be understandable. But in a macro­national and global economic sense it creates serious questions. We were once a nation that grew from no subsidies, to now subsidizing the obnoxiously wealthy, even oppressively wealthy when one investigates what the likes of are doing to control governments and manipulate the world with their wealth. 

 

In light of our history of increasing subsidies, and progressive tax laws, how did we get to such a state of extreme disparity and diminishing middle class? Whatever happened to our antitrust laws? Why weren't the big tech giants broken up like Ma Bell long ago?

 

These questions don't even raise the most serious issues of Google's record of censorship, citizen surveillance and their denying support to our US military while supporting China's military and more.