….and nothing but the truth

…AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH May/June 2023

Ramesh Nyberg Just the Facts… The percentage of audiences – in print or in person – who recognize the name Joe Friday or the TV show “Dragnet”are dwindling faster than my eyesight. For that reason, allow me to provide a quick preamble to this column. Sgt. Joe Friday was the hard-nosed, no-nonsense LAPD detective from the show “Dragnet,” one of the most popular police shows of all time. Friday was famous for conducting interviews of witnesses and, when they rambled…

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…AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH Nov/Dec 2021

RAMESH NYBERG It’s Been a Busy Week… The week I am writing this column began on Monday, October 25th. It’s a week following a week of three big criminal justice stories – two of them in my home state.       I tell my students that we are never lacking for study material and it’s true. The headlines of the Miami Herald­ – as well as every major news outlet in the country – are always overflowing with real crime stories, arrests,…