February 5, 2012

If You See Something, Say Something

Janet Napolitano - official portrait

Dearborn, Mi. – Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad and the Dearborn Police Department continue to contribute to the development of community-based policing initiatives promoted by Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.  Secretary Napolitano has recently announced a series of initiatives to support state and local law enforcement and community groups across the country in identifying and mitigating crimes and threats to their communities.  Meanwhile, the CATO Institute held a special forum regarding citizen journalism and video recording of police activities to help … [Read more...]

Amazing Grace Amid Profound Controversy

Nabeel Quereshi

EDITORIAL (31-Aug-2010) - Monday morning, at the 19th District Court in Dearborn, Judge Mark Somers deliberated over a pre-trial hearing concerning an incident which occurred at Dearborn's 15th annual Arab International Festival on Friday, June 14th.  As previously reported in the Dearborn Free Press, several people affiliated with the Acts 17 Apologetics group were arraigned  on July 12th, on charges of "breach of peace".  The four Christians, David Wood (a 34 year old former atheist) from Bronx, New York, Dr. Nabeel Qureshi (a 29 year old former Muslim) from Virginia, Nageen Mayel (a … [Read more...]

Debate About Free Speech In Dearborn Continues

EDITORIAL (Updated 27-Jul-2010) -- The Dearborn Free Press has purposely been very slow to report much about this controversy. We heard about the arrest of  four Christians at the Arab International Festival, on Friday, June 18 -- the night that it happened. We mentioned something about it on our Facebook page, the following Monday morning (June 21st). We have been very cautious to report anything, and a careful investigation is still ongoing. On June 21st we made the following statements  (only on the Dearborn Free Press Facebook page): We linked to a Detroit News article entitled … [Read more...]