by Dennis Beaver | drug use, landlord/tenant, law enforcement
January 6, 2023 • By Dennis Beaver There are two aspects to today’s story – the macro, or “big picture,” and the “small scale” real-world look at how the macro impacts real people. Over the past few years as first the medical use of marijuana and then...
by Dennis Beaver | law enforcement, workplace
March 13, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver This is the story about how a lawyer, prosecutor, and judge worked together to teach a volatile woman respect for authority, and also, of an employer who saw great promise in an employee who very likely would have lost her job if she...
by Dennis Beaver | law enforcement, traffic ticket
September 6, 2019 • By Dennis Beaver If there is one thing that can turn a pleasant drive sour in an instant it is being pulled over by a traffic officer and receiving a ticket. Even if deep down, we know the cop was right, still, no one is going to think, “This was...
by Dennis Beaver | law enforcement, traffic ticket
December 21, 2018 • By Dennis Beaver Suddenly, in the rearview mirror the red flashing lights of a police car appear. “What did I do? Am I going to get a ticket? Please, No!” The speedometer reveals a speed significantly over the limit, or maybe not, you’re just...
by Dennis Beaver | law enforcement, malpractice, medicine
August 24, 2018 • By Dennis Beaver “Mr. Beaver I am a physician in Northern California and read your column in the Eureka Times-Standard. My father is a surgeon and last year lost a patient even before the operation began because the anesthesiologist gave the patient...
by Dennis Beaver | consumer credit, law enforcement, traffic ticket
July 27, 2018 • By Dennis Beaver One of the great “joys” that motorists across the United States face is an encounter with RoboCop, also known as the red light camera. Who hasn’t just driven through an intersection, or turned right on a red, only to see a bright flash...
