Crime

Criminal Justice: One Of The Enormous Non-Issues Of Presidential Politics

James Freedman | Posted 07.23.2008 | Home

Read More: John McCain, Jails, Prison, Crime, Criminal Justice System, Prisoners, Criminal Justice, Prisons, Jail, Election 2008, John McCain Torture, Barack Obama Illinois, Barack Obama, Prison Inmates, Offthebus, Adam Liptak, Southern Center for Human Rights, Stephen Bright, Robert Weisberg, Home News
James Freedman

A candidate like Obama -- who says "thoughtful things" and actually speaks in "paragraphs" as opposed to soundbites -- might be willing to address the topic. But don't hold your breath.

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Welcome to my neighborhood: Indianapolis cop gets shot

Bil Browning | Posted 07.12.2008 | Living

Read More: Indianapolis, High Crime Years, Crime, Police, Crime Rate, Crime Reduction, Police Shooting, Cops, Living News
Bil Browning

I've been blogging repeatedly about the overwhelming crime problem plaguing my neighborhood. When our car was stolen or when the windows were smashed...

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Beating the Jaywalking Rap

Nicholas Stephanopoulos | Posted 07.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jaywalking, Crime, Police, D.C., Washington, Washington Dc Crime, How to Fight Traffic Tickets, Washington DC, Politics News
Nicholas Stephanopoulos

While gunshots ring out and drug deals are executed just blocks away, DC's police officers spend entire days nabbing pedestrians who cross streets a little too soon or a little too late.

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Please help Brian Beutler--another victim of a stupid handgun crime

Harold Pollack | Posted 07.04.2008 | Media

Read More: Handgun Violence, Brian Beutler Medical Relief Fund, Richard Francis, Crime, Media News
Harold Pollack

My previous column mentioned that the talented progressive blogger Brian Beutler was shot and wounded in a stupid and vicious botched mugging over a f...

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Confronting Our Inner Vigilante (Part 2)

Russ Wellen | Posted 07.04.2008 | Living

Read More: Law Enforcement, Vigilante, Rudolf Giuliani, Police, Crime, Subway, Subway Vigilante, Bernard Goetz, Justice, New York City, Living News
Russ Wellen

There's an even stronger impulse driving some to the vigilante act than grandiosity: the realization that if you do nothing, you've essentially allowed yourself to be held hostage, not necessarily to the perpetrator, but to fear.

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Get Well Soon: To Brian and Everyone Else Harmed by Stupid and Impulsive Crimes

Harold Pollack | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Brian Beutler, Richard Francis, Handguns, Urban Crime, Mugging, Crime, Politics News
Harold Pollack

Brian Beutler, the talented journalist and blogger, has been shot and wounded in a botched mugging, another pointless act of violence.

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Confronting Your Inner Vigilante

Russ Wellen | Posted 07.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Law Enforcement, Vigilante, Police, Rudolf Giuliani, Crime, Subway, Subway Vigilante, Justice, Bernard Goetz, New York City, Living News
Russ Wellen

If spontaneous and proportional to the crime, the vigilante act, as opposed to the practice, is not a crime. In fact, there's no shortage of situations which call for taking the law into one's hands.

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How To Make 8K A Day

Diane Dimond | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Defense Attorney, Robert Durst, Jury System, Crime, Martha Stewart, Jury Consultants, Shadow Jurors, Justice, Affordable Justice, Inside the Minds of Jurors, Politics News
Diane Dimond

I know a man connected to the justice system who makes eight thousand dollars a day. You read that right. When he shows up in a courtroom for a client his very presence and whispered advice to the lead attorney is worth 8 thousand dollars per day.

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Crime and the Candidates

Diane Dimond | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics

Read More: Third Way a Liberal Think Tank, 1 in Every 100 Americans Is in Prison, What Affects You Most?, Reporters Questions, High Crime Years, White Collar Crime, Crime, Convicts Set to Be Released in the Next Five Years, Organized Crime, Violent Crime, Elliott Spitzer Prostitution Ring, Mortgage Fraud, Presidential Candidates, Crime on the Internet, Politics News
Diane Dimond

The possibility of a multitude of different crimes is something many of us think about on a regular basis, so why don't we about it more often from the leaders who want our votes?

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What if They Jailed a Reporter and Nobody Noticed?

Bill Wyman | Posted 06.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Child Pornography, Media, R. Kelly, Crime, R. Kelly Sex Video, R. Kelly Trial, Media News
Bill Wyman

R. Kelly's professional work -- his albums and singles and videos -- gets loving treatment, generally with a dismissive aside about those pesky, if un-detailed, legal problems.

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Deconstructing Ray Nagin's State of the City Report

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 05.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Kathleen Blanco, Louisiana, Bobby Jindal, Crime, Ray Nagin, FEMA Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Recovery, John Swenson, Bush, Nola, Lra, Politics News
Georgianne Nienaber

A dumpster load of money has either been allocated or earmarked for New Orleans, but where is the money? It sure as heck isn't in the lower ninth, which now resembles a cow pasture.

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Reporter Reveals She Was Raped -- After 24 Years -- and Gets Massive Reaction

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.06.2008 | Media

Read More: Journalist, Media, Rape, Crime, Reporter, Media News
Greg Mitchell

For years, Joanna Connors never wrote about the incident, which resulted in the eventual conviction and imprisonment of the rapist. The paper covered the trial -- but kept her name hidden.

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Second Thug Life: Who's Afraid of GTA IV?

Chez Pazienza | Posted 05.06.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Michael Bloomberg, Video Games, Grand Theft Auto Four, Crime, Madd, Grand Theft Auto 4, Grand Theft Auto Iv, Entertainment News
Chez Pazienza

Those currently crusading against Grand Theft Auto IV are operating under a paradigm that's long since past -- that video games are strictly the domain of kids. They're not.

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Pretrial Detention is Preventive Detention for Many Minority Youth

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Joshua Pomier, Imprisonment, Crime, San Bernardino District Attorney, Mike Ramos, Racial Disparities, Juvenile Justice System, African-American Youth, Pre Trial Dentention, Politics News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

Even with the plunge in juvenile and adult crime, the numbers of youth and young adults incarcerated for lengthy pre-detention jail time nearly doubled in the 1990s.

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Kneejerk Reactions

Mahmood N. Al-Yousif | Posted 04.14.2008 | Politics

Read More: Civil Unrest, Government Surveillance, Government, Bahrain, Big Brother, Crime, Culture, Politics News

Divine intervention couldn't have come at a more fortuitous time for the government to start to re-impose another heinous State Security Law, the very...

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It's Been A Quiet Week At Wal-Mart's Parking Lots & Bathrooms

Al Norman | Posted 03.23.2008 | Home

Read More: Child Molestation, Wal-Mart, Parking Lots, Crime, Bomb Threats, Home News
Al Norman

By Al Norman It's been a quiet week in Wal-Mart parking lots and bathrooms. The market may be tanking, but crime at Wal-Mart shows no signs of slowi...

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Missouri's Humane and Sensible Approach to Juvenile Justice

Marian Wright Edelman | Posted 03.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Juvenile Crime, Crime, Children, Child Watch, Marian Wright Edelman, Juvenile Justice, At-Risk Youth, Missouri, Juvenile Dentention, Politics News
Marian Wright Edelman

We should stop spending a fortune on traditional, non-therapeutic, correctional facilities and then releasing youth back into our communities with little done to address their rehabilitation and education needs.

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Hillary, Bill and Obama on Crack

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 03.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Sentencing, Crime, Crack, Drug Sentencing, Clinton Needle Exchange, Needle Exchange, Hillary Clinton, Drugs, War on Drugs, Barack Obama, Politics News
Maia Szalavitz

While Bill Clinton is apologizing for not having done more to reduce the disparity in sentencing for crack and powder cocaine, his wife opposes even the most modest attempt to fix the problem.

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Driver's licenses for illegal aliens

Mark Kleiman | Posted 02.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hillary Clinton, Immigration, Crime, Driver's License, Barack Obama, Politics News
Mark Kleiman

On the issue of driver's licenses for illegal immigrants, the right thing to do -- on humanitarian grounds and on public-safety grounds -- isn't the p...

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Your Genes Made You Do It? Guilt, Innocence, and Behavioral Genetics

Dan Agin | Posted 01.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Crime and Responsibility, Human Behavioral Genetics, Crime, Incarcerated Black Youths, Racism, Discrimination, Behavioral Psychology, Police Bias, Living News
Dan Agin

There is now a current interest in the legal community in modern behavioral genetics and in the idea that since behavior may be controlled by genetics, what does "responsibility" mean?

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Nifong, Gitmo and the Topless Undercover: The Top 10 Criminal Justice Stories of 2007

David Feige | Posted 01.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Duke, Warantless Eavesdropping, Crime, New Year, Crack Cocaine, Padilla, Policing, 2007, Libby, Criminal Justice, Pot, Topless Undercover, Michael Vick, Gitmo, Habeas Corpus, Home News
David Feige

If there is one truism about America it is this: we are obsessed with crime and punishment. Every lurid tragedy produces calls for tougher laws and ...

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Arrests Give Lie to Thug Life Depiction of Taylor Murder--and Black Males

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 12.01.2007 | Media

Read More: Murder, Thug Life, Sean Taylor, Crime, Hip Hop, Rap, Football, Young Black Males, Washington Redskins, Nfl, Gangs, Media News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

The arrest of four suspects in the Taylor killing makes the speculation about his lifestyle seem dumb, ill-informed and driven by the skewed, negative typecast of young black males.

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NYT: Rudy's Frequent New York Statistics Are "Just Plain Wrong"

New York Times | MIchael Cooper | Posted 11.30.2007 | Politics

Read More: New York Times, Republican Primary, Statistics, Rudy Giuliani, Crime, 2008 Election, New York City, Lying With Statistics, Politics News

In almost every appearance as he campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination, Rudolph W. Giuliani cites a fusillade of statistics and facts t...

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NH Cop To McCain: Drug War Blows

Matt Simon | Posted 11.20.2007 | Home

Read More: Drugs, John McCain, Crime, Methamphetamine, Marijuana, 2008 Election, Offthebus, Home News
Matt Simon

At a town hall At Franklin PIerce College Sunday evening, Senator John McCain took a question on the War on Drugs from an audience member with an interesting perspective -- a police officer.

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"The Most Dangerous City?" Really?

Toby Barlow | Posted 11.18.2007 | Politics

Read More: Drought, Michigan, Climate Change, Greenhouse Effect, California, Detroit, Detroit Crime, Crime, American Society of Criminolgy, Detroit Safety, Fbi, Politics News
Toby Barlow

Take the column that adds up the local robberies and break-ins in Detroit and add to it the crimes we have all been collectively committing against the environment.

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