Another imploding crime lab!  So, again, convictions tied to bad practices will be vacated, and the innocent, as well as the truly guilty, will walk.  Special courts to hear load of cases in drug lab scandal.

So, says this Dean, more than the academic quality of community college courses is involved when transferring students arrive at a four year college only to discover that not all their courses count towards the bachelor’s degree.  Faculty self-interest, helped along by an arcane credit system that dominates academic bean-counting, is also in play.  Who’d a thunk?  Don’t Forget Self-Interest… | Inside Higher Ed.

Police Inspector hears from his pal, a retired Captain, who asks that a relative’s arrest after a scuffle with two police officers go away.  No problem.  2 police officials suspended for alleged cover-up of arrest.

Like many jurisdictions, Stockton, California dug itself a hole in the late 1990’s by assuming that a few banner years’ return on pension investments would continue forever—so why not skip or cut back on pension contributions to pay for other things?  Wrong!  Facing a financial cliff, Stockton then bit on a Wall Street firm’s sales pitch to reduce its pension debt by rolling it over into new, lower interest loans that were a good deal as long as the economy grew steadily, a very bad deal if it did not, which happened, bankrupting Stockton.   http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/04/business/how-a-plan-to-help-stockton-calif-pay-pensions-backfired.html?smid=pl-share