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Assassin shot in cartoonist's home has links to al-Qaida, say police | World news | The Observer
"Westergaard told his employer, the Jyllands-Posten daily, that he had locked himself and the child in the bathroom as the assailant shouted "revenge" and "blood" and tried to smash his way into the house. "My grandchild did fine," he told the newspaper. "It was scary. It was close. Really close. But we did it.""
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David Harris: What Israel Can Teach the World About Airport Security
"That said, the Israelis believe there must be an additional assessment mechanism - apart from the essential pre-flight intelligence gathering - which acknowledges that not everyone is equally likely to carry out a terrorist attack. Some call it profiling, which has become a dirty word to those who think it conjures up notions of racial, religious, or ethnic targeting. In reality, it's more sophisticated than simplistic classification."
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Toddlers insensitive to fear go on to commit crimes - life - 17 November 2009 - New Scientist
"Decades later, Raine's own team looked to see if any of the subjects had criminal records and found 137 that did. The team discovered that, as toddlers, these people had sweated significantly less in anticipation of the blare compared with subjects of similar race, gender and background for whom no criminal record was found."
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Fort Hood Shooter Tried to Contact al Qaeda Terrorists, Officials Say - ABC News
"U.S. intelligence agencies were aware months ago that Army Major Nidal Hasan was attempting to make contact with people associated with al Qaeda, two American officials briefed on classified material in the case told ABC News. "
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The raid that rocked the Met: Why gun and drugs op on 6,717 safety deposit boxes could cost taxpayer a fortune | Mail Online
"Under POCA, the burden of proof lay with the box-holders. Finding evidence for wartime treks across Europe, or charting migration stories from the Partition of India and beyond, would cost many of the box-holders tens of thousands of pounds. "
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Arizona sheriff conducts migrant sweeps despite curb | U.S. | Reuters
"Arpaio has held office since 1992 and has been criticized by Hispanic activists, civic authorities and civil rights leader Al Sharpton. They say the Phoenix sweeps in areas with significant Latino populations amount to racial profiling."
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The Hate Crimes You Don’t Hear About
"The authors also reveal the surprising statistics regarding interracial crime. It turns out that 80 percent of violent crimes involve an attacker and victim of the same race. “For the 20 percent of violent crimes that are interracial, 15 percent involve black offenders and white victims; 2 percent involve white offenders and black victims; and 3 percent involve other combinations.”23"
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Crime Rate Comparison - Compare US City Crime Rates
Crime Rate Comparison - Compare US City Crime Rates
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Harlem business owner Charles (Gus) Augusto opens shop day after fatally shooting two robbers
"It was sitting there for 20 years - I didn't know if it was gonna work," Augusto, of upstate Irvington, N.Y., told the Daily News. "I got up and pointed it down there and I fired about three rounds. I wasn't aiming at no one directly."
Augusto's three shotgun blasts felled all four bandits, ages 21 to 29. Two were killed. Two others staggered outside the store and were nabbed by cops. -
Drop in crime coincides with exodus of illegal immigrants - Phoenix Business Journal:
A marked drop in Phoenix-area crime coincides with the recession and a drop in the number of illegal immigrants in Arizona.
Phoenix has seen a 25 percent decline in the number of crimes during the first five months of 2009 compared to the same time period in 2007 when the economy began to slow. Violent crime in Phoenix is down 12 percent, according crime statistics from the Phoenix Police Department. -
Passenger says TSA agents harassed him - CNN.com
There are no restrictions on carrying large sums of cash on flights within the United States, but the TSA allegedly took Bierfeldt to a windowless room and, along with other law enforcement agencies, questioned him for almost half an hour about the money.
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The Agitator » Blog Archive » Super-Powered Police Dog Proves a Paltry Pooch; People It Imprisoned Exculpated
Judges and juries apparently bought this crap for years. It finally came to an end when Judge Gilbert Goshorn ordered the dog to perform a basic tracking test after Preston claimed the dog had alerted to a suspect’s scent at a crime scene six months after the murder. The dog failed.
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WASHINGTON TIMES STORY on Criminal Sentencing, with Letter From Juror No. 6 | The Museum of Miscellany
The policy lets federal judges mete out tougher sentences based on what lawyers call "acquitted conduct," or the criminal charges for which a defendant has been acquitted in court.
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Jihad Watch: Russia: Muslim father has daughter murdered for wearing a dress "that left her knees exposed"
Russia: Muslim father has daughter murdered for wearing a dress "that left her knees exposed"
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American Thinker: Policing the Prosecutors
Ethical rot in the arm of the Justice Department tasked with ensuring the integrity of public officials is unacceptable. In this case, a change in the political composition of the United States Senate was a direct consequence of the failure to disclose exculpatory evidence. The political integrity of our democracy is at stake.
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Pagans, Christianity, and Infanticide
From its earliest creeds, Christians "absolutely prohibited" infanticide as "murder."
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Department of Justice crime data - cvus03.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Department of Justice crime data
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