news2019-06-19
After last year’s massacre in Parkland, Fl., many prosecutors vowed to go after any student who made threats against schools. Now, some are moving away from the zero-tolerance approach to avoid overcharging students in cases that don’t turn out to be serious. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrime....Read more
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Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner deflects criticism from Police Commissioner Richard Ross, who suggests he isn't tough on crime. Krasner insists his office continues to prosecute most gun cases. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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In one of the largest drug busts in U.S. history, the haul could have been worth more than $1 billion on the street. The ship had stopped at the Bahamas, Panama, Peru and Colombia. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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Reducing violence in America’s at-risk communities requires more than aggressive policing. Speakers at a John Jay conference Tuesday described the growing successes around the country of multi-pronged, evidence-based efforts involving community outreach, peer support and civilian professionals. S....Read more
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Police ‘hot spot’ strategies usually focus on isolating the relatively small number of individuals responsible for violence in a neighborhood. But experts at a John Jay conference on violence prevention said the focus should also identify victims who can evolve into offenders themselves. Source....Read more
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Two-thirds of all license suspensions in New York are just for traffic debt. In the upstate city of Rochester, the poor have been hit the hardest. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
news2019-06-18
As a businessman, Donald Trump spent $85,000 on a newspaper ad calling for the executions of the five teens accused of an assault in Central Park; they later were exonerated. Asked now about the case, the president says, "You have people on both sides of that." Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeR....Read more
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On the eve of formally announcing his re-election bid in Orlando, Fl., President Trump is threatening to remove millions of people living in the U.S. illegally. An administration official told Fox News the removal would focus on more than 1 million people who have been “issued final deportation ....Read more
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A full federal appeals court rules 7-4 that a man who was with Michael Brown when he was killed in 2014 by a Ferguson police officer may not pursue a civil case against the officer, the city and its former police chief. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
news2019-06-18
In a yearlong investigation, reporter Justin Fenton probed how Baltimore police officer Wayne Jenkins was aggressively arresting suspects while he led a criminal enterprise of fellow officers. Source: The Crime Report ( TheCrimeReport.org )....Read more
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