The police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, said that he hoped the change would eliminate assaults, which he said climbed from about 40 in 2006, to 60 last year and to about 50 so far this year.
Instead of continuing to accept that more than one person dies of gunshot wounds in our country every hour, why not pass stricter background checks and reasonable gun regulations, eliminating assault weapons and large magazine clips?
Metzler: Our goal is to eliminate sexual assault in the Department of Defense.
"The Citadel and other military universities cultivate the future leaders of the military, so in order to eliminate sexual assault in the military it must be eliminated at the schools first".
The day before the second semester of my 26th year as an English professor at the U.S. Naval Academy, the Navy's two top men, the Secretary of the Navy and the Chief of Naval Operations, summoned the Academy's entire student body for a mandatory lecture about eliminating sexual assault at the Academy.
The incident also coincides with the Pentagon's high-profile effort to "reduce -- with a goal to eliminate -- sexual assault in the military," according to a congressional briefing on the sexual assault report early Tuesday.
The aim of this conference at Saint Peter's is to bring together community leaders, higher education administrators, sexual assault experts and victim's rights advocates to begin to identify and implement strategies for reducing and ultimately eliminating sexual assaults on their campuses.
The crimes for which statutes of limitations would be eliminated include rape, manslaughter, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, burglary, second-degree arson, illegal firearm sales, gang assault and aggravated assault on a police officer.
Among other things, it would repeal a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons and eliminate firearm registration requirements, even for such things as sniper rifles and small, easily concealed semiautomatic handguns.
Mission and Goals: HAVEN's mission is: To eliminate domestic violence and sexual assault through treatment and prevention services across Oakland County and surrounding communities.
