Dr. Mozelle Martin
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✍️ 38-Year Forensic Analyst | ⚖️ Constitutional Law Studies | 🧠 Writer | 🔍 Cold Case Consultant | 🕶️ PET VR Creator | 🔭 Licensed Investigator | ✈️ USAF
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Why I No Longer Sell on Amazon
When I published my first book in 2011, I used Lulu. At the time, it was one of the few print-on-demand options that allowed authors to retain control over content, pricing, and distribution. Over the years, I explored other publishing routes, including limited digital placement on Amazon Kindle, but I remained consistent with Lulu for physical books. As of this writing, I am still evaluating whether those remaining Kindle titles will stay available.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin4 days ago in Humans
Why We Stare at Slow Drivers
Most drivers perform a strange ritual they never talk about. Someone ahead of them is moving so slowly it stretches patience to its thinnest thread. Once the gap opens and they can finally accelerate past, the same thing happens every time. They look. They turn their head just enough to catch a glimpse inside the other car. It feels automatic and unnecessary, but the body does it without taking a vote. The stare is not rudeness, and it is not about proving a point. It is part of a deeper behavioral process that starts the moment another driver interferes with your rhythm.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin7 days ago in Humans
The Handshake Isn’t Dead
People forget how ancient certain gestures are. The handshake is one of them. A brief grip between two human hands started long before business cards, offices, or networking events. It began as proof that neither person carried a weapon. It was the original trust test, done in open view, palm out, fingers visible, nothing hidden. The motion settled nerves in a time when ambush and suspicion shaped daily life. Humans remember rituals that keep them alive. Even if modern culture forgets the origin story, the nervous system does not.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin11 days ago in Humans
Citizen’s Arrest, Explained
Citizen’s arrest is one of those concepts people carry around like common knowledge. Younger generations rarely hear the term unless it pops up in a headline. Older generations remember it from a time when neighborhoods were smaller, policing looked different, and the public was told to “help out” if something happened right in front of them.
By Dr. Mozelle Martin29 days ago in Criminal
Good Samaritan Laws, Plainly
Most people have heard the phrase “Good Samaritan law” and treat it as a vague safety net. They assume there is some invisible legal blanket that protects anyone who steps in to help a stranger in trouble. The reality is less cinematic. In the United States, there is no single federal Good Samaritan law that covers every scenario. There is a patchwork system of state statutes, case law, and narrow federal rules. Each piece aims at the same goal: convince ordinary people they can try to help without getting dragged into court for making an honest mistake.
By Dr. Mozelle Martinabout a month ago in Humans
For No Reason
I wrote this as a teenager and forgot it existed until I found it again in old files. I’m putting it here because the core point is still true, and still denied. It’s told in the voice of a dog, but it’s not a breed or pet-specific statement. It’s a sequence statement. Same logic applies to any animal living under chronic neglect or abuse.
By Dr. Mozelle Martinabout a month ago in Petlife
Who Gets Stopped
If you read my license plate article, you know plates are not dossiers. They are keys that open records. The question drivers actually want answered is simpler and more uncomfortable: who gets stopped, and why did that officer pick their car. The honest answer lives where law, discretion, and technology meet. It is not conspiracy. It is a system with plenty of legal cover and even more room for human habit.
By Dr. Mozelle Martinabout a month ago in Criminal
Your Dog Is Not Truck Cargo
In much of the country, dogs standing loose in the back of a pickup have been treated as part of the scenery for decades. People point at it, smile, say the dog “loves it” and keep driving. The scene looks normal because the community has rehearsed it for years. From a forensic and trauma standpoint, it is anything but normal. It is a low-speed, high-frequency mechanism of serious injury and death that we keep pretending is harmless.
By Dr. Mozelle Martinabout a month ago in Petlife
License Plates Aren’t Random
When I was a kid, my cousin Marsha worked at the DMV in a town of 2,500 people. She said the plate often told her what area of town someone lived in. I forgot about that until someone else mentioned it the other day, so I dug in.
By Dr. Mozelle Martinabout a month ago in FYI
The False Safety of FDIC Insurance
I was 17 when I first noticed the gap between what banking customers believe and what a financial institution can actually promise. It was 1981. I had a summer job in a regional bank that felt serious and orderly. The brochures around the lobby promised safety through a familiar phrase: “the security of FDIC insurance.” Customers repeated that line when they opened accounts. They treated it as a guarantee. Inside the employee lounge, the conversations carried a different tone. FDIC insurance was protection with limits, shaped by statutes, not a full shield.
By Dr. Mozelle Martinabout a month ago in Trader
The Identifiable Victim Effect:
Most people think their compassion scales with the size of a tragedy. In practice, the opposite shows up again and again. One injured dog will pull more donations than a barn full of starving animals. One missing child will draw more public outrage than a report about hundreds of children living in the same conditions.
By Dr. Mozelle Martinabout a month ago in Humans
