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J.D. Dhein interviews Jason Weber, expert on an increasing issue in the Midwest and spreading across the country: the abuse of prescription drugs. Jason is a contributor to http://www.wicrimeprevention.com/ and you can find resources at http://www.wicrimeprevention.com/?cat=37

WCPPA

Congratulations to the Wisconsin Crime Prevention Practitioners Association on the successful RE-LAUNCH of their website. Check it out at: http://www.wicrimeprevention.com/

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J.D. Dhein interviews Jason Weber, expert on an increasing issue in the Midwest and spreading across the country: the abuse of prescription drugs. Jason is a contributor to http://www.wicrimeprevention.com/ and you can find resources at http://www.wicrimeprevention.com/?cat=37

We have all been moved by the events in Haiti and many of us are looking for a way to help out. Unfortunately, criminals often take our best intentions and use them against us in scams.

A popular scam regarding Haiti relief efforts is Text Donation–by texting a special word to a particular number, it takes $10 off of your bill and donates it to Haiti relief. The problem: there are hundreds of these codes floating around the internet and only some of them are legitimate.

NOTE: Not all Text Donation is a scam. Unfortunately, there are plenty, though!

How do you know which one to use? Donate only to organizations you know. Don’t respond to some Twitter post or unsolicited e-mail and go directly to a relief organization (like Red Cross at http://www.redcross.org/) and follow the directions there. Right at Red Cross’s home page, they give you the Text Donation directions. Responding to an e-mail from an organization you don’t know could be a complete scam or could significantly reduce your charitable donation with overhead costs (sometimes up to and exceeding 90%).

Make sure when you donate to an organization it goes where it is intended to by doing a little research before texting that donation.

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J.D. Dhein returns to Stupid Criminal territory with this story:

Ricky Dale Ford was jailed in September in Conway, Ark., accused of stealing an all-terrain vehicle. While joyriding, Ford had accidentally hit a beehive, and when police found him in nearby woods, he was “barely breathing,” one officer said, having been stung more than 100 times.

WCPPA

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Wisconsin Crime Prevention Practitioners Association website (http://www.wicrimeprevention.com/ ) will launch February 1, 2010.

Officer Joel Dhein offered holiday shopping safety tips recently on Milwaukee Fox affiliate Channel 6, WITI-TV. To do that, Joel visited a local shopping mall with a film crew and caught some mall customers making common errors.

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J.D.  and Tim recount some of the best shows in the past and how if you listened to the show you could have avoided certain problems as they developed.

Cyberbullying

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Cyberbullying is an increasing problem on the internet. JD Dhein employs the help of McGruff to teach you how to avoid the pitfalls.