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Expanded Homicide Data Table 3 - Crime in the United States 2005
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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."
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. "
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. "
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."
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"
Crime Rate Comparison - Compare US City Crime Rates
Crime Rate Comparison - Compare US City Crime Rates
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.
The Integrated Man: Man without children in jail for failing to pay child support
Frank Hatley has languished in a South Georgia jail for more than a year.The reason? He failed to reimburse the state for all the public assistance his “son” received over the past two decades.The problem? Hatley is not the biological father -- and a special assistant state attorney general and a judge knew it but jailed Hatley anyway.
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.
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.
Obama and habeas corpus -- then and now - Glenn Greenwald - Salon.com
Back in February, the Obama administration shocked many civil libertarians by filing a brief in federal court that, in two sentences, declared that it embraced the most extremist Bush theory on this issue -- the Obama DOJ argued, as The New York Times's Charlie Savage put it, "that military detainees in Afghanistan have no legal right to challenge their imprisonment there, embracing a key argument of former President Bush’s legal team." Remember: these are not prisoners captured in Afghanistan on a battlefield. Many of them have nothing to do with Afghanistan and were captured far, far away from that country -- abducted from their homes and workplaces -- and then flown to Bagram to be imprisoned. Indeed, the Bagram detainees in the particular case in which the Obama DOJ filed its brief were Yemenis and Tunisians captured outside of Afghanistan (in Thailand or the UAE, for instance) and then flown to Bagram and locked away there as much as six years without any charges. That is what the Obama DOJ defended, and they argued that those individuals can be imprisoned indefinitely with no rights of any kind -- as long as they are kept in Bagram rather than Guantanamo.
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.
Annals of Human Rights: Hellhole: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
EEG studies going back to the nineteen-sixties have shown diffuse slowing of brain waves in prisoners after a week or more of solitary confinement. In 1992, fifty-seven prisoners of war, released after an average of six months in detention camps in the former Yugoslavia, were examined using EEG-like tests. The recordings revealed brain abnormalities months afterward; the most severe were found in prisoners who had endured either head trauma sufficient to render them unconscious or, yes, solitary confinement. Without sustained social interaction, the human brain may become as impaired as one that has incurred a traumatic injury.
To execute or not: A question of cost? - Crime & courts
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"It's 10 times more expensive to kill them than to keep them alive," though most Americans believe the opposite, said Donald McCartin, a former California jurist known as "The Hanging Judge of Orange County" for sending nine men to death row.
Wave of Drug Violence Is Creeping Into Arizona From Mexico, Officials Say - NYTimes.com
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The Phoenix police regularly receive reports involving a border-related kidnapping or hostage-taking in a home.
The Maricopa County attorney’s office said such cases rose to 241 last year from 48 in 2004, though investigators are not sure of the true number because they believe many crimes go unreported.
Johann Hari: You are being lied to about pirates - Johann Hari, Commentators - The Independent
I wonder if the article is true. I distrust the source, but that doesn't mean the reporter is lying.
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Some are clearly just gangsters. But others are trying to stop illegal dumping and trawling
Wal-Mart Employee Trampled to Death by Customers - NYTimes.com
madness of crowds
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A Wal-Mart employee in suburban New York was trampled to death by a crush of shoppers who tore down the front doors and thronged into the store early Friday morning, turning the annual rite of post-Thanksgiving bargain hunting into a Hobbesian frenzy.
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