Danielle Stislicki's Family Fears Foul Play In MetLife Employee's Disappearance

A desperate search is on in Michigan for Danielle Stislicki, whom family members suspect was abducted more than a week ago after leaving work.


“We believe she has been taken and is being held against her will,” Stislicki’s mother, Ann, told The Huffington Post.


Rich Stislicki, who descr...

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Man First To Face Prosecution Under Matthew Shepard Hate Crimes Act for Transgender Murder

For the first time since its passage in 2009, the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act has been used to bring charges for targeting a victim because they were transgender.. This Act expanded existing federal hate crime law to include crimes motivated by bias against t...

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https://skpsoft.com/crime/man-first-face-prosecution-matthew-shepard-hate-crimes-act-transgender-murder/

White Football Player Accused Of Coat Hanger Assault On Black Teen With Disabilities Will Avoid Prison

An Idaho activism group is questioning the state’s decision to enter into a plea agreement that will allow a white football player to avoid jail time in the alleged sexual assault of a black teen with disabilities.


The Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence, in a statement p...

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New Siberian Reality Show Includes Waivers For Rape And Murder

What are those Russians up to now? A new reality show featuring contestants trying to survive nine months in harsh Siberia is reportedly insisting participants sign waivers regarding possible rape and murder.


All bets are apparently off when the 30 contestants — 15 men, 15 women —battle to ...

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https://skpsoft.com/crime/new-siberian-reality-show-includes-waivers-rape-murder/

Murder Convictions Upgraded For Calgary Couple Who Killed Daughter

CALGARY — Alberta’s top court has upgraded second-degree murder convictions to first-degree murder for a father and stepmother who beat, tortured and killed their six-year-old girl.
The Court of Appeal agreed with a Crown appeal that Spencer Jordan and Marie Magoon are guilty of the m...

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Former NFL Player Was 1 Of 2 Men Found Shot Dead In Detroit Home

Police are investigating after two men, one of them a former Buffalo Bills football player, were found shot to death inside a home basement in Detroit on Tuesday evening.


The victims have been identified as Robert Eddins, 28, who played linebacker for the New York team in 2011, and Ricardo...

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Gary FitzGerald: Elder Abuse - A Forgotten Human Rights Issue?

Last Saturday (10th December) marked Human Rights Day. Instigated by the UN, the day encourages people across the globe to “stand up for someone’s rights today”.


In the UK, human rights are often seen as an international issue – one enacted in dusty prisons in...

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Laura Richards: One Step Closer To Tougher Laws For Stalkers

A proposed law that we have been campaigning for is one step closer to becoming a reality.


Following Dr Eleanor Aston’s terrifying eight-year stalking ordeal at the hands of Raymond Knight we worked with Gloucester MP Richard Graham and MP for Cheltenham Alex Chalk to increase the...

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https://skpsoft.com/crime/laura-richards-one-step-closer-tougher-laws-stalkers/

Suspected Thief Unwittingly Swipes Dog Poo, Gets Caught Brown-Handed

Using the tape as evidence, Ronel Newton, of the Riverside Police Department, reportedly tracked down the alleged turd burglar and took him into custody.
“He dropped it as soon as he found out,” Newton told KCBS-TV. “He didn’t want nothing to do with it.”
Interestingly, Zaremba is not the fir...

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Parvez Ahmed: Is a Clash of Civilizations Looming?

President-elect Trump’s National Security Advisor Michael Flynn during a media interview said, “Islam is a political ideology based on a religion.” This contradicts the lived experience of Muslims. But more alarmingly it opens the door for denying Muslims in America their...

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https://skpsoft.com/crime/parvez-ahmed-is-a-clash-of-civilizations-looming/

Maile Zambuto: Reflections On Wednesday Night's SVU, The Stanford Case, And My Own Pursuit Of Justice After Sexual Abuse

Wednesday night’s episode of Law & Order: SVU was one of those “ripped from the headlines” stories. Like many of you who followed the news back in June about Brock Allen Turner’s six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman behind a dumpster...

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https://skpsoft.com/crime/maile-zambuto-reflections-on-wednesday-nights-svu-the-stanford-case-and-my-own-pursuit-of-justice-after-sexual-abuse/

Video Shows Man Punching 7-Year-Old At School, Then Walking Away

A parent was caught on video punching a 7-year-old boy in the stomach at a Washington, D.C., school, officials say. 
In footage filmed at KIPP DC Spring Academy last week, the boy is seen falling to his knees as the man, who is the parent of another child, slowly walks away. 
Lena Mclean, t...

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https://skpsoft.com/crime/video-shows-man-punching-7-year-old-at-school-then-walking-away/

Calgary Mom Who Gave Son Holistic Remedies 'Morally Innocent': Lawyer

CALGARY — The lawyer for a Calgary woman who treated her son with holistic remedies before he died of a strep infection says his client was a good mother and is “morally innocent.”
Tamara Lovett, who is 47, is accused of failing to provide the necessaries of life and w...

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https://skpsoft.com/crime/calgary-mom-who-gave-son-holistic-remedies-morally-innocent-lawyer/

Acton Murder Victim Had Fled Afghanistan For A 'Peaceful Life' In UK

A teenager who was murdered outside a Tesco store in west London reportedly fled Afghanistan for a “peaceful life” in Britain and had previously spent time in the Calais jungle camps. 
Khalid Safi was stabbed through the heart near the entrance to the University of Arts London, in Acton, on D...

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https://skpsoft.com/crime/acton-murder-victim-had-fled-afghanistan-for-a-peaceful-life-in-uk/

Hooded Thieves Swarm San Francisco Apple Store, Swipe Gadgets

Hooded thieves stormed an Apple store twice in one week swiping thousands of dollars worth of gadgets.
Surveillance footage shows a group of unidentified people swarming inside the San Francisco Marina District outlet first on Nov. 25 and then again on Nov. 29. 
Each time, retail staff can o...

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Zac Thompson: Things Black People Should Stop Doing

Luckily, Chris Lawrence is here to offer a solution. He’s compiled a handy list of things black people should stop doing. These are not things that people can’t do, but rather the mundane things that could possibly get you killed.


If you’re black and you want to stay...

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UN Women: Supporting Muna to get her life back

Crossposted from UN Women.

Muna Hadad has suffered a lifetime of violence and abuse. Fearing her son’s safety, she left her abusive second husband and found refuge in a woman’s shelter supported by UN Women. Today, she is safe, independent and a working mother.

Muna Hadad* has a har...

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Jack Levin, Ph.D.: Misconceptions About Terrorism In The Aftermath of the Ohio State Rampage

Jack Levin and Jack McDevitt


The recent rampage on the campus of Ohio State University has been followed by much speculation based on a number of misconceptions and misunderstandings. Some observers have argued that professors should be carrying firearms along with books to their...

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Driver Beaten With Hockey Stick In Calgary Road Rage Attack

Calgary police are investigating an incident of serious road rage, where a woman was followed and then attacked with a hockey stick by two men.
Police say a woman was driving south on 4 Street N.W. near the intersection of 40 Street Wednesday afternoon when a BMW unsuccessfully...

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Inmates Making So Much Money From Spice They're Deliberately Being Sent Back To Prison

Former prisoners are “deliberately” ensuring they are sent back to prison because they can’t resist the huge profits on offer by selling legal highs, new research has revealed. 
A gram of synthetic cannabinoids, like Spice and ‘Mamba’, can cost £3 outside of prison but can fetch 33 times that...

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https://skpsoft.com/crime/inmates-making-so-much-money-from-spice-theyre-deliberately-being-sent-back-to-prison/

Driving-while-stoned pot test gets renewed push from Assemblyman Tom Lackey

With recreational cannabis legal in California, state leaders are taking another stab at letting law enforcement test the saliva of people suspected of driving under the influence of marijuana.
Assemblyman Tom Lackey, R-Palmdale,...

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Amanda Botfeld: The Spike In Hate Crimes Against Jews Should Worry All Minorities

The New York Police Department reported on Monday a 115 percent increase in bias crimes following the election – just another marker of the swell in hate incidents coinciding with Donald Trump’s ascendance to the presidency. The upsurge in harassment and intimidation has been amply doc...

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Moby: When Media Accept Misogyny We All Lose

Donald Trump in a 2004 interview with Howard Stern:



I’m sitting having dinner and O.J. came up to me — I was sitting with very important people, big bankers, and Nicole came over, and she started screaming at him, “get over to the table!”… So, he decided...

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WANTED: Alleged Bank Robber With A 'Bad Cattitude'

The FBI is looking for an alleged bank robber who stood out because of a mug shot, and it wasn’t even his own. 
It was the one on his T-shirt. 
The man accused of holding up a BancFirst location in Norman, Oklahoma, on Monday was caught on surveillance video wearing a shirt bearing the mug...

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https://skpsoft.com/crime/wanted-alleged-bank-robber-with-a-bad-cattitude/

Vigilante 'Creep Catcher' Charged By Alberta Police

LACOMBE, Alta. – A member of a vigilante group has been charged with criminal harassment and mischief in an incident in central Alberta.
Chief Lorn Blumhagen of Lacombe police says the alleged victim had been communicating online with a person through a social media website for t...

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Police Accused Of 'Bullying' After Video Shows Dramatic Arrests Of Three Teens

Police have been accused of being “bully boys” after three teenagers were arrested amid chaotic scenes in Liverpool.  
Video of the incident in Queens Square on Monday shows several officers restraining a young woman who thrashes about as she is told, “settle down and you’ll be able to walk ...

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Man Admits To Murder That Kept Twin Jailed 13 Years

More than a decade after Kevin Dugar was convicted of firing a gun into a small group of people, killing one man and wounding another, his twin brother has made a shocking courtroom confession.
“I’m here to confess to a crime I committed that he was wrongly accused of,” Karl Smith, who has ad...

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Sarah S. Kilborne: Will Hate Go To Trial? Following The Case Against Anti-Gay Extremist Scott Lively

On November 9, under a grey sky with light rain, I drove to federal court in Springfield, MA, to hear summary arguments in Sexual Minorities Uganda (SMUG) vs. Scott Lively, a civil lawsuit in which Scott Lively, an American pastor, is being sued for aiding and abetting the persecution of...

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https://skpsoft.com/crime/sarah-s-kilborne-will-hate-go-to-trial-following-the-case-against-anti-gay-extremist-scott-lively/

Tim Roth Says His Grandfather Sexually Abused Him And His Dad

Tim Roth and his father were both sexually abused by Roth’s grandfather, the actor alleged in a Guardian interview published Sunday.
Roth, who has appeared in the Quentin Tarantino films “The Hateful Eight,” “Pulp Fiction” and “Reservoir Dogs,” was discussing his father’s political leanings w...

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GOOD GRIEF: It's The Great Pumpkin Robbery, Charlie Brown!

It’s neither a trick nor a treat but a brazen theft of hundreds of pumpkins from a New Jersey patch. 
A van was caught on surveillance camera making three trips to the Farms View pumpkin patch in Wayne early Tuesday, where thieves absconded with 192 pumpkins, NBC New York reported.
“It’s incr...

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https://skpsoft.com/view/crime+news/good-grief-its-the-great-pumpkin-robbery-charlie-brown/

4 Calgary Children Orphaned After Parents Overdose

Calgary police believe a couple who were found dead by their children in their home overdosed on drugs.
Investigators say a 14-year-old called 911 on Saturday morning.
Three other children, including a four-year-old, were in the house.
The victims, both in their 30s, have not...

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Leanne Wood: Prison Suicides: Emerging Crisis Shows Need For Welsh Solutions

While we are buying presents and planning family Christmas holidays, for most of us, our minds couldn’t be further away from those who are suffering or who find themselves in troubled situations. That includes all of those people who will be spending these holidays behind bars.


What...

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Orange County Sheriff's Deputies' Once-Secret Log On Jail Informants Reveals Rampant Misconduct

LOS ANGELES ― An Orange County Superior Court judge released a trove of notes from a once-secret document kept by sheriff’s deputies detailing their involvement in a tainted informant program that has allegedly violated the rights of numerous defendants for years. The behavior of pros...

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The Judge That Ruled Against Kesha Is Right: Not All Rapes Are Hate Crimes

Screenshot via VEVO / YoutubePop star Kesha was dealt a major defeat in her lawsuit against Sony Music Wednesday after a judge ruled that she could not escape her contract with Dr. Luke, the record producer she has accused of raping her. 
A number of factors were working against Kesha: the s...

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Two Federal Courts Call BS on Banning Sex Offenders From 'Child Safety Zones'

NYS PTAA couple of years ago, Brian Valenti, a registered sex offender who lives in Hartford City, Indiana, received a citation for sitting in his brother’s car. The car was parked outside his brother’s house, which happens to be across the street from a school. By sitting in it,...

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California Legislators Look to Reform Bail System to Stop Punishing the Poor

Nikolay Mamluke / Dreamstime.comCalifornia finally managed to reform its asset forfeiture laws to make it tougher for police to use the state’s poorer citizens as a piggy bank earlier this year. Will the state’s residents see reform to bail regulations that keep poor people...

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Edmonton Man Allegedly Threatened Women In Hijabs With A Noose

Two women in hijabs were allegedly threatened with a noose in Edmonton.
On November 8 at around 8:30 p.m., police say an elderly man approached the two women at the University of Alberta LRT station. A cell phone video shot by one of the alleged victims shows him pull a rope from...

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British Santa Safari Worker Stabbed To Death In Lapland

A British woman working for the Santa Safari tour company has been stabbed to death in Lapland and her boyfriend has been arrested over her death. 
The 25-year-old seasonal worker, who has not yet been named, was found dead in the village of Kuttanen, Finland, on Saturday. She is believed to ...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/crime+news/british-santa-safari-worker-stabbed-to-death-in-lapland/

Police: Ex-con accidentally shoots self, waitress inside Pasadena Denny's

PASADENA >> An ex-con shot and wounded himself, and grazed a waitress with a bullet, when a gun he was carrying went off accidentally inside a Pasadena Denny’s restaurant on Saturday night, police said.
The incident unfolded about 10:10 p...

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Mike Arkus: Camels, Ships of the Desert Plying the desert - Camelids, Section 2: Animal Planet on the Looney Front, Part 18

Moving on from single-humped dromedaries in this second blog on camelids, we come face to spitting face with double-humped camels in darkest Asia. I’m afraid this one is going to be a mainly photo-free zone due a camera mishap in Central Asia.


You can see the majestically swaying...

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Vandals Put Death Threat, Racial Slur On Door Of Black Church

Yet another place of worship has been defaced with hate speech in the days after the election of Donald Trump.
The day after Liberty Missionary Baptist Church’s Thanksgiving celebration, during which parishioners and volunteers fed nearly 300 people, members discovered the words “Kill All Koo...

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Janice S. Lintz: #BreakingtheSilence

We have all seen the recent headlines about mistreatment of women. Many readers are probably shocked, but for women who have gone through it, this is business as usual. As a retired lawyer who lived through physical and verbal domestic violence, I am appalled by the way the system treats women...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/crime+news/janice-s-lintz-breakingthesilence/

Nurse Accused Of Killing 8 Nursing Home Residents In Canada

A nurse has been arrested for allegedly killing eight elderly people at nursing homes in Canada over a seven-year period, authorities announced Tuesday.
Elizabeth Tracey Mae Wettlaufer, 49, has been charged with first-degree murder in the alleged killings that took place in Woodstock and...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/crime+news/nurse-accused-of-killing-8-nursing-home-residents-in-canada/

Woman Shot And Killed By Calgary Police

CALGARY – A woman in her 30s is dead after the tenth police-involved shooting in Calgary this year.
Police say officers were called to a location in a southwest neighbourhood around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday for a woman screaming.
When officers arrived, they saw a woman further down the s...

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Chelsea Football Club 'Apologies Profusely' To Former Player Over Alleged Abuse

Chelsea Football Club on Saturday “apologised profusely” to Gary Johnson who alleges that he was abused while a youth player there in the 1970s. 
The London club said Johnson had “suffered unacceptably” and that it was now “absolutely determined to do the right thing” by players affected by t...

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Authorities In Sherri Papini Case Give Conflicting Statements On Alleged Abduction

Police investigators have apparently not ruled out the possibility that something is awry in the disappearance of Sherri Papini, a California mom who was reunited with her family on Thanksgiving after she was found bound and beaten along a California highway.
“I don’t know if the words ‘ru...

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Nikolas Kozloff: A History of Vandalism: Welcome to Ukraine's Historic Holocaust Site

While many Ukrainian politicians and political activists alike have embraced pointed views on their country’s thorny and controversial World War II past, relatively few may claim direct personal experience of the Holocaust. Abraham Kristein, however, is the rare exception of someone...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/crime+news/nikolas-kozloff-a-history-of-vandalism-welcome-to-ukraines-historic-holocaust-site/

Louisiana to Become First State to Make Cop Killing a Hate Crime

Tony Webster/flickrIn Louisiana, a bill passed by the legislature that would extend hate crimes protections to police officers and first responders is expected to be signed by the governor, John Bel Edwards (D), as early as this week, the Washington Post reports.
The bill (H 953) passed the...

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The Truth About the Biggest U.S. Sex Trafficking Story of the Year

PART ONE: ‘This Is What Human Trafficking Looks Like’
With the death of his mother last summer, Sigurds Zitars, a retired accountant, was the only family member left in University Place, Washington. Since 2006 “Sig” had been the clan’s caregiver, after his...

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Make America Safe Again?

Trumpkins aren’t motivated by fear of crime. Instead, they are excited by the promise of new wars and witch hunts – deporting illegals in boxcars, surprise nuke attacks on muslims, and of course shootouts and door-to-door urban combat to ‘restore law and order’ to the...

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Calgary Woman Charged In Son's Death Called Herself A 'Failure'

CALGARY – A Calgary woman wept through much of her initial interview with police before she was charged in the death of her seven-year-old son.
Tamara Lovett, 47, is on trial charged with failing to provide the necessaries of life and with criminal negligence causing death.
Ryan A...

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Frances Crook: Our Record Prison Suicide Rate Is A National Scandal And A National Shame

When you have lost all your freedoms, the very least the state can do is keep you safe. This is not happening, as over 100 men and women have taken their own lives in prisons so far this year – and the death toll is likely to rise as Christmas is a particularly distressing time. This...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/crime+news/frances-crook-our-record-prison-suicide-rate-is-a-national-scandal-and-a-national-shame/

USC Faculty Stabbed To Death On Campus

LOS ANGELES – A male faculty member at the University of Southern California was stabbed to death on the downtown Los Angeles campus on Friday, and a suspect was taken into custody, authorities said.
The Los Angeles Fire Department responded to a reported stabbing around 4:30 p.m....

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John Feffer: The Dutch Referendum and the Future of Europe

The future of Europe is being decided this week in the Netherlands.
Perhaps you thought that the European Union’s fate would be voted up or down in June, when the United Kingdom holds its referendum on continued membership. The “leave now” constituency in the UK currently holds a four-point l...

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Tainted Wine Scandal Rocks 'China's Bordeaux'

Six people have been detained, several wineries shut down and bottles pulled from shelves in China after authorities found wine containing several che…
Read more: China Wine Scandal, Food Crime, Chinese Wine Scandal, Toxic Wine, Wine Scandal, Chinese Wine, China's Bordeaux, China...

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Gleb Tsipursky: 4 Questions To Ask Before Wearing A Safety Pin

Caption: Image of safety pin with words superimposed “You are safe with me. I stand beside you.” (Safety Pin, Snopes)


Are you among the many Americans who are considering wearing a safety pin after this election? This simple object has quickly emerged as a sign that the wearer...

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Johannes Wheeldon, Ph.D: Why Making Prisoners "Pay" Won't Work

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Mere months after passing Bill C-10, legislation that combined a stupefying number of failed crime policies together in one place, the Federal government is at it again. Time for prisoners to start paying their own way, says the Minister for Public Safety,...

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Barbara Greenberg: 5 Lessons Your Teens Can Learn From Trump

This is an article that I never thought that I would write. Let me rephrase this. I often write about lessons that we can teach our teens about all sorts of issues. I did not, however, think that lessons about sex and inappropriate sexual manners, talk and behavior would be stimulated by...

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REPORTS: Adrian Peterson Indicted In Child Injury Case, Arrest Warrant Issued

Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has been indicted in Texas in a child injury case and an arrest warrant has been issued, according to multiple media reports. Citing unnamed sources, Mark Berman of MyFOX Houston 26 first reported on Friday that the 2012 NFL MVP had been...

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Jo-Marie Burt: In Guatemala, Victims Commemorate the Third Anniversary of the Genocide Verdict

“Not in vain, just a few days after the sentence was handed down that convicted the worst killer of all killers for the crime of genocide, the earth trembled in Guatemala; the earth shook because she knew that impunity had not yet been overcome: the earth shook with rage, and rightly...

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http://skpsoft.com/view/crime+news/jo-marie-burt-in-guatemala-victims-commemorate-the-third-anniversary-of-the-genocide-verdict/

Woman Chained in Shipping Container Sues Accused Serial-Killer Kidnapper

A woman chained inside a metal shipping container for more than two months in a remote area of South Carolina by a suspected serial killer isn’t waiting for the slow wheels of justice. She is suing her accused kidnapper for current and future medical expenses, punitive damages and attorney fe...

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These Are Calgary's Most Wanted Offenders

Full Name: GUTIERREZ, James Stanley
Age: 24
Description: Male, Aboriginal, 5’10” tall, 145 lbs., brown eyes, brown hair
Wanted: Threats
Warrant In Effect: Oct. 13, 2016



Full Name: ANDREWS, Eric Phillip
Age: 20
Description: Male, 5’8” tall, 170 lbs., brown eyes, black hair
Wa...

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Katherine Koster: Chicago Sun-Times Editor Thinks Sex Workers Can't Be Sexually Assaulted

On September 12, the Chicago Sun-Times published an opinion piece in which Mary Mitchell questioned whether the recent sexual assault of a sex worker–at gunpoint–should be called and prosecuted as rape.


In the op-ed, Mitchell referred to the victim as an “unidentified...

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Patti Giggans: Denim Day: Making a Social Statement with a Fashion Statement

What happened in 1999 that brings us together on this 17th annual Denim Day, Peace Over Violence’s sexual violence prevention education campaign? The Denim Day story began in Italy after a Supreme Court justice overturned a lower court’s rape conviction ruling that because the...

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The Most Dangerous State For Homeless People Is...

Once again, the Sunshine State has been deemed the most dangerous in the nation for homeless people — the third such designation it has earned since 2008 — according to the National Coalition for the Homeless’ 2012 database of known cases of violence.


In fact, Florida...

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Widow of NYPD Chokehold Victim Has No Faith In Prosecutors

NEW YORK (AP) — The widow of Eric Garner says that from the beginning she’s had no faith in prosecutors on Staten Island, the borough where a police officer placed her unarmed husband in a chokehold that resulted in his death.


Esaw Garner said in an interview Thursday on NBC’s ...

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John Roman, Ph.D.: Should We Actually Arm Citizens and Let Them Police Themselves?

Urban Institute’s Sam Bieler coauthored this post.


A city with limited resources and stubbornly high crime rates, Detroit is ripe for justice system innovation. Police Chief James Craig has seized on this opportunity, implementing a broad range of changes to the department.


These...

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A.L. Gaylin: Lifting The Veil On Hollywood Journalism

One of my very first jobs out of college was as a reporter for Star. As opposed to the comparatively classy, glossy Star Magazine you see on the newsstands today, the Star of 1990 was truly notorious – a trashy tabloid whose direct competition was the National Enquirer and The Globe....

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San Bernardino terror attack survivors say they feel like they 'don't fit anymore'

SAN BERNARDINO >> There are days Jessica Ballesteros has to force herself out of bed.
To shower. Put on makeup. Go to work or visit family.
The grief, anxiety and depression that gripped her for months after she survived a San Bernardino...

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Ukraine Missile Drill Will Avoid Crimea To Prevent Clash With Russia

Ukraine’s military said its two-day missile drill starting on Thursday would avoid the airspace over Crimea, sidestepping a possible confrontation with Russia which annexed the peninsula in 2014.
News of the tests had angered the Kremlin, prompting it to put its air defense forces on high a...

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Honey Laundering Conspiracy Is Largest Food Fraud In U.S. History

As crime sagas go, a scheme rigged by a sophisticated cartel of global traders has all the right blockbuster elements: clandestine movements of illegal substances through a network of co-operatives in Asia, a German conglomerate, jet-setting executives, doctored laboratory reports,...

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Proposed 'Anti-Semitism Awareness Act' is an Unconstitutional Mess

Takver/Flickr/Wikimedia CommonsSen. Bob Casey (D-PA) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) have introduced the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act which according to a statement on Casey’s website is meant to “to ensure the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) has the necessary statutory tools at...

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Mark Crowley: Tories Hope You're Too Bored To Care About the Budget

Right now, MPs are in parliament for an unprecedented marathon of voting on proposed changes and deletions to the omnibus budget bill C-38. If you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the past couple weeks or just don’t find Canadian politics that riveting,...

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Romeo and Juliet and Sexting: 17-Year-Old Faces Child Porn, Assault Charges for Consensual Sex with Girlfriend

Austin Yabandith / Facebook (April, 2013)For an update, scroll to the bottom.*
“After being arrested, I was suicidal and hopeless,” Austin Yabandith, a 17-year-old from Superior, Wisconsin, recalls. “As of right now, I am just hoping for the best and preparing for the...

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Sports Is Supposed To Be An Escape From Life's Troubles, But This Week It Was The Opposite

Sports can sometimes provide an escape from the world’s troubles. Not this week. This week, the world couldn’t escape the troubles making headlines in sports.


From explicit footage of domestic violence and audio recordings of racist remarks to murder trials and allegations of...

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Trump Advising General Doubles Down On Muslim Ban

Former Defense Intelligence Agency director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn expressed his support for Donald Trump’s extreme national security positions in an interview released Thursday — including a ban on Muslim entry.
But the informal advisor to Trump’s campaign, who headed the Pentagon int...

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Broad Expansion of FBI’s Hacking Authority Begins Today

Alphaspirit / Dreamstime.comLest we incorrectly assume that the United Kingdom stands alone in expanding surveillance power, today a controversial rule change granting the FBI much broader authority to remotely hack into computers comes on line.
Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal...

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'Supreme Suffering' For Calgary Boy Before He Died, Trial Hears

CALGARY – A friend of a woman accused of criminal negligence in the death of her seven-year-old son says though the child was in “a state of supreme suffering” on the night before he died, she did not notify officials.
Barbara La Pointe says she was confused and in a s...

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Kandice Ferrell: Baltimore's Best Kept Secret Reaches 50-Million-Dollar Milestone

Pictured left to right: Cal Ripken Jr., Vice Chairman and Steve Salem, President, Cal Ripken Sr. Foundation


Fifty million dollars is a windfall any number of us would naturally relish the opportunity to bank for personal profit.


As meaningful as it would be for one person or family,...

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Sharyn J Potter: The Anti-Drunk Driving Movement as a Framework for Campus Sexual Assault Prevention

In February 1981, my friends Pamela Rudin, Erica Hassner, and Ruth Yudelson died on the shoulder of an upstate New York road while walking home from a religious retreat. Astonishingly, the drunk driver who plowed into them never saw the inside of a prison cell. A grand jury refused to...

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Hit-And-Run Driver Dumps Cyclist Behind Trash Bin

Throughout the trip that spanned nearly two miles, the severely injured bicyclist remained wedged on the smashed rear window of the car that struck hi…
Read more: MIami Bike Scene, Axel Inostroza, Hit and Run, Craig Camlin, South Florida Hit and Run Problem, Miami Crime, Miami Transit, ...

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New York Police Save Christmas For Burglary Victims

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — After a burglar stole a suburban New York family’s Christmas presents from under the tree, police played Santa.


The Journal-News reports (http://lohud.us/1xDQo0R ) that White Plains police presented the Cuenca-Orzuna family Saturday with $1,500 worth of g...

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Manslaughter Charge Dropped For Cop Who Fatally Shot 7-Year-Old

The dismissal of the manslaughter charge against a Detroit police officer who fatally shot a sleeping child will stand, an appeals court ruled Monday.


Detroit Police Officer Joseph Weekley has been on trial for involuntary manslaughter in the death of Aiyana Stanley-Jones, 7, who was...

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Former Football Coach Barry Bennell Charged With Sex Offences Against Boy

Barry Bennell has been charged with eight offences of sexual assault against a boy under the age of 14, the Crown Prosecution Service said.
The 62-year-old former Crewe Alexandra coach faces the charges after prosecutors reviewed a case file handed to them by Cheshire Police.
Five of the...

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Former Teacher Indicted After Video Shows Girl Being Dragged By Hair

A Mississippi teacher, fired after a video appeared to show her abusing a special needs student, has been ordered to stand trial.
Washington County District Attorney DeWayne Richardson said a grand jury returned an indictment Monday charging Linda Winters-Johnson, 53, of Greenville, with...

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Doug Bandow: Donald Trump Challenges Washington's Bipartisan War Lobby: Developing a Foreign Policy for America

Donald Trump has become this season’s campaign phenomenon. He’s broken all the rules. Yet he could become the Republican presidential nominee and maybe even president.


GOP elites are in a frenzy. The Neoconservatives and ultra-hawks who have dominated Republican foreign policy...

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Chef Ran Part Of Multimillion-Dollar Drug Ring From Restaurant Kitchen

THE head chef at an exclusive inner-Sydney bar allegedly supplied shopping bags full of ecstasy from his kitchen as part of a multimillion-dollar drug syndicate.





In between serving up $34 plates of pork belly braised in orange, soy and cinnamon and salmon confit at...

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Paul Stoller: The Anthropology Of Us: A Second Open Letter To Our Students

I am back again with more wake-up news about the state of the society you will soon inherit. I don’t know if you’ve heard about yet another incident of hateful violence on one our college campuses–Ohio State. the site of a car ramming and a series of stabbings. As of...

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Tim Knight: Watching the Watchdog: Stats Don't Lie, Political News Falls Short

Tim Knight contributes a regular media column to HuffPost Canada.
Publication: Occupiers and Legislators: A Snapshot of Political Media Coverage Samara Institute.
Date: June 27, 2012
Seems that when you spend an hour watching Canadian TV news stories about politics, you...

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UN Women: Building Hope For Survivors Of Violence In Ethiopia

Crossposted from UN Women.



A survivor at Association for Women’s Sanctuary and Development (AWSAD) with her child. Photo: Womankind Worldwide/Maheder Tadese
 


“After I came to this shelter, it was like a new beginning. I am back in school and I am a good student. I want to help other gi...

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Another NFL Player Arrested For Domestic Violence

The NFL’s off-field controversies continued on Wednesday when Arizona Cardinals running back Jonathan Dwyer was arrested on aggravated assault charges, stemming from two incidents involving a woman and a child.


Citing an unnamed source, Tyler Baldwin of KTVK-3TV first reported that...

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Riley Waggaman: Obama's Hiroshima Visit Will Give New Meaning to Meaningless Publicity Stunts

America’s trusted political pundits are all hot and bothered by Barack Obama’s upcoming visit to Hiroshima. Will our Nobel Peace Prize-bedazzled president apologize for his nation’s “pragmatic” decision to drop an atomic bomb on a city with no real military...

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Greater Good Science Center: Can Empathy Improve Policing?

Overall crime rates are down in the United States. But looking at the news, it’s hard to not despair. Police killings of unarmed black citizens makes us question the integrity of our police forces, while retribution killings of innocent police officers make us fear for their safety on...

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Inmate Claims He Was Shot In The Testicles As Payback For Lawsuit

An Edmonton inmate claims he was intentionally shot in the testicles with a rubber bullet over the weekend as payback for a multi-million dollar lawsuit he filed against the Attorney General of Canada.
Shawn Keepness, 31, is one of three inmates who claim to have been kept in...

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Chicago Starts The Week With 14 Shot In 15 Hours

Chicago’s bloody weekend spilled into the workweek, as 14 people were shot in the city over a 15-hour period from late Monday night to early Tuesday morning.
At least six people died. They included a pregnant woman and her mother, who were struck by a “barrage of bullets”...

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Katie Ray-Jones: When It Comes To Consent, There Are No Gray Areas

And our laws should reflect that


Like many people, I was outraged when I heard about the Oklahoma court ruling that was recently in the news. Outraged and disgusted.


In case you missed it, a court in Oklahoma declared that it is not against state law to have oral sex with a person who...

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Well, This Isn't Good For Florida

Florida may be just the fourth most populous state in the U.S., but it contains more of nation’s 100 most dangerous cities — a total of 11 — than any other state, including California (10), Texas (five), and New York (four).


That’s according to...

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Widespread Problems On Rikers Island Tough To Fix

NEW YORK (AP) — Victor Woods shook uncontrollably, his body wracked by convulsions, as fellow inmates held him in their arms and shouted for help.


Amid the chaos inside a Rikers Island dormitory, surveillance video showed a lone figure of relative calm: a guard watching it all unfold as h...

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Woman Shot, Killed After Saying No To A Man's Advances, Detroit Police Say

Police say a man shot and killed a woman after she rejected his advances at an event in Detroit over the weekend. Five people were also injured during the incident.


Mary Spears, 27, was at the American Legion Joe Louis Post No. 375 on the east side of Detroit when the 38-year-old suspect...

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Four UK Men Killed Themselves Over 'Sextortion' Blackmail Scams In The Last Year

Four men killed themselves in the last year after being blackmailed as part of an increasing cyber “sextortion” racket.


International gangs of organised criminals are targeting more and more young men by luring them into potentially compromising positions, the National Crime Agency sai...

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Death Stalks The 'Bourbon Capital'

Anger, confusion and sadness ― and, from officials, silence ― have deepened the mystery surrounding a man’s recent death in Bardstown, Kentucky. The shooting death of the man, whose daughter is a missing person, is just the latest in a series of high-profile tragedies to plague this small to...

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Doug Bandow: Stuck in the Ukrainian Conundrum: U.S. and Europe Need to Drop Sanctions and Negotiate a Way Out

Many Ukrainians expect America and Europe to save them. Suggest that they are living a fantasy gets you tarred as a blatant fool and Russian stooge. Yet Ukraine shouldn’t waste time posing as a fairy tale maiden in distress waiting for rescue by the Western knight in shining armor....

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Armed Man Demands Food From McDonald's, Blames Pregnant Wife

“They had told him the store was closed,” [Scott County Sheriff Rick] Walter said. “He demanded one of the employees to open the window.”


The employee reportedly responded by advising only the manager could open the window.


“He told the employee he wanted...

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Feds and South Carolina Both Want to Execute Dylann Roof

FacebookYesterday the Justice Department further illustrated the unconstitutional absurdity of the federal hate crime statute by announcing that it will seek the death penalty for Dylann Roof, the man charged with murdering nine people at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, last June....

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Key To Harper's Tough-On-Crime Agenda Gets Slapped Down

Mandatory minimum sentences are the backbone of the Conservative reforms to criminal law. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)




OTTAWA – An Ontario Court judge has struck down a cherished part of the Harper government’s tough-on-crime agenda.
Justice Paul...

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Oakland Police Follow Up Internal Sex-Crime Investigation by Launching Anonymous Online System for Reporting Prostitution

Oakland Police Department/Facebook“If you see something, say something” is how The New York Times characterizes an initiative to get Oakland, California, residents to play sex police in their neighborhoods. But a better slogan for the new program might be “do as we say, not...

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Michael Phelps Charged With Second DUI

Decorated Olympian Michael Phelps has been arrested and charged with a DUI in Baltimore after police pulled him over for speeding early Tuesday morning.


Maryland Transit Authority (MDTA) police told WBAL the athlete was driving a white Land Rover at a speed of 84 mph in a 45 mph zone at...

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Gordon Brown: We Must Investigate Russian-Syrian Forces' Role in This Deadly School Bombing

LONDON ― Evidence is mounting of a war crime allegedly perpetrated by joint Russian-Syrian military forces when a school in a rebel-held village of Idlib Province was bombed on Oct. 26, leaving dozens of pupils and teachers dead. The bombing may be the deadliest school bombing since the star...

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The United Kingdom Authorizes Broad Mass Surveillance on Its Citizens

Peter Nicholls/ZUMA Press/NewscomThe United Kingdom’s Gangmasters and Labour Abuse Authority is not part of an agency tasked with fighting terrorism. They are a licensing body monitoring labor rules in the U.K.’s agriculture industries.
Nevertheless, under a new mass surveillance...

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Alberta Boy Who Died Given Herbs Over Antibiotics, Trial Hears

CALGARY – A seven-year-old boy who was treated with holistic remedies by his mother before he died was riddled with an infection that caused all of his major organs to fail, the woman’s trial heard Tuesday.
Tamara Lovett, 47, is charged with failing to provide the n...

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Rev. Al Sharpton: Reducing Gun Violence and Reforming Our Criminal Justice System Simultaneously

On the premiere of my Politics Nation’ broadcast at its new time (Sundays, 8 a.m. ET on MSNBC) I sat down with Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton who touched on a host of issues — including criminal justice reform. As she so eloquently highlighted, police are...

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Nina Flores: La Sierra University Mishandled This Case of Sexual Assault

Tensions are running high at La Sierra University where reports of mishandled campus sexual assaults are flooding a newly created website for survivor stories. La Sierra, a small Seventh-Day Adventist university in Riverside, California, is the latest school to face complaints from students...

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Execution Date Set For Killer Who Dismembered 9-Year-Old Miami Boy

The Governor’s Office announced Thursday an execution date for the convicted killer of a nine-year-old Miami-Dade boy.
Juan Carlos Chavez, 46, is sch…
Read more: Jimmy Ryce, Jimmy Ryce Killer, Juan Carlos Chavez, Florida Death Penalty, Miami News, Miami Crime, Juan Carlos Chavez...

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NY Judge Tried To Get Out Of Drunken Driving Charge: Cops

HARRISON, N.Y. (AP) — Authorities say a suburban New York town judge drove drunk, hit another car and then tried to persuade police to let him go because he was a jurist.


Harrison Town Justice Marc Lust was arrested on driving while intoxicated and other charges Dec. 19. Police said his c...

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Another Mistrial In Case Of Officer Who Shot Sleeping 7-Year-Old To Death

A mistrial has been declared in the trial of the Detroit police officer who shot a sleeping 7-year-old to death.


The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said that Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Cynthia Gray Hathaway declared a mistrial Friday after the jury deadlocked. Jurors had...

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Football Abuse Scandal Now Involves More Than 20 Ex-Players

As many as seven professional football clubs are now embroiled in the growing child sex abuse scandal, with more than 20 ex-players alleging they were victims, the head of the players’ union has said.
Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) chief executive Gordon Taylor spoke out as the ...

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Burglary suspect shot, killed by LAPD officer in South Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES >> A burglary suspect was fatally wounded Monday in an officer-involved shooting in South Los Angeles.
No officers were injured in the shooting, which was reported just after 1 p.m., according to Officer Norma Eisenman of the Los...

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Ukraine's Eurovision Win Sparks A Political Uproar In Russia

KIEV/MOSCOW, May 15 (Reuters) – Ukrainians hailed their country’s unexpected victory in the Eurovision song contest as a Europe-wide endorsement of Ukraine in its smoldering conflict with Russia, while Moscow said the contest had been hijacked by politics.
Ukrainian singer Jamala...

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Expired Food Found In School Cafeterias

Out-of-date food has been found lingering in public school cafeterias across Massachusetts, sent from warehouses up to six weeks past “use by” dates, the state department of education said on Friday.


Roughly a dozen schools reported expired food shipments or sought guidance...

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Public Library Reports Hate Crimes Against Muslims In Graffitied Books

Books are discussed as emblems for openness, ports in rocky political storms.
So, when librarians at the Evanston Public Library in Illinois discovered that some of their books ― copies of the Quran and other Islam-centered titles ― had been vandalized, they issued a statement and opened an ...

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Prison Population Explosion A Dud: Toews

WINNIPEG – Canada’s prison population has not exploded, contrary to opposition critics’ dire predictions about the government’s anti-crime laws, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews said Wednesday.
The number of inmates in federal prisons as of June 30 stood at...

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English Soccer's Governing Body Launches Child Sexual Abuse Inquiry

LONDON (Reuters) – The English Football Association (FA) has launched an internal review to examine allegations of children being sexually abused at professional soccer clubs.
English soccer’s governing body said on Sunday that it had appointed Kate Gallafent QC as leading independent ...

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Adam Banner: You Can't Have A Mastermind Without First Having "The Brain"

It takes a helluva lot of talent, and/or smarts, to allegedly pull one of the greatest sports fixes of all time. However, it takes even more oomph to never get caught.


Ever heard of the 1919 Chicago White Sox? Yeah, I figured you had. But in case you haven’t, go do a little...

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Danny Postel: Syria's Medical and Humanitarian Nightmare: An Interview with Dr. Zaher Sahloul

Since their days as medical school classmates, Bashar al-Assad and Zaher Sahloul have followed rather different paths: one became a war criminal; the other, a humanitarian advocate.


Dr. Sahloul is the immediate past president of and a senior advisor to the Syrian American Medical Society...

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The Vera Institute of Justice: A new vision for crime victims

By the chairs of the Downstate Coalition for Crime Victims and the Downstate Coalition Racial Justice and Legislative Committees


Christopher Bromson, Erin Eastwood, Michael Polenberg, Kimberly Sanchez, Danielle Sered, and Susan Xenarios


Many actions are taken in the name of crime...

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Edmonton Teen Killed After Being Hit By Bus That Kept Going

EDMONTON – A 13-year-old girl has died in Edmonton after police say she was struck in a crosswalk by a city bus that kept on going.
Police say the girl was crossing the street at an intersection in the city’s northwest on Saturday evening when the bus made a left turn across ...

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Lynn LaPlante Allaway: Let's All Point and Laugh at the NRA

Another mass shooting but I loathe to mention this most recent one by name, since if I leave the specifics out of it, this essay will remain relevant for a very long time. At least until the next mass shooting happens and the one after that, and the one after that. For there will be a next...

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Shanlon Wu: 3 Questions to Ask if Your Student Gets in Trouble at College

Disbelief is the most common reaction parents have to news that their college student is in trouble. Most parents think, “What’s the big deal? We all did silly/dumb/risky things in college.”


Well, that was then–and this is now. Decades ago, colleges often...

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Man Killed At Baby's Baptism Party During Fight Over Food

It was a celebration of new life, but death crashed the party.


21-year-old Wilson Alexis tried to intervene and stop the fight, but was shot twice and died at hospital. As many as 80 people fled the scene, making witnesses scarce.


“I feel sad. I feel so sorry for him,” said...

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Another Arrest In Brooklyn Bridge Attack On Cop During Protest

(Reuters) – A fifth person has been charged in connection with assaulting two New York City police lieutenants during a political demonstration on the Brooklyn Bridge last month, officials said on Friday.


Police are searching for the remaining two suspects in the Dec. 13 attack...

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Facebook Fight Allegedly Led To 3-Year-Old's Fatal Shooting

DETROIT — A Detroit Police Academy graduation began on a sorrowful note Friday, as new officers and their families mourned for a toddler killed in an act of “senseless violence” a day earlier.


The ceremony, held at Greater Grace Temple, included a moment of silence for...

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Yasmin Qureshi: Record Suicide Figures Prove That, Under This Government, The Prison System Is Broken

Today the Howard League for Penal Reform and the Centre for Mental Health published a joint report which found that more than 300 people have been killed behind bars in 2016. This is the reality of Tory cuts to our prisons, it is not just felt by prison staff and prison inmates, but by...

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Christopher Zoukis: 'After Life Imprisonment' Examines Re-entry Of Parolees Into Society

Sociologists, criminologists, and other scholars regularly study and debate what works about the American criminal justice system, and what doesn’t. In the current political and social climate, where reform of our ravenously bloated criminal justice system is on the agenda, this...

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John Feffer: The Music of Hopelessness

If foreign policy had a soundtrack, it would be the opposite of easy listening.
Really, could anyone listen to a symphony of war and peace all the way through? In the first movement — devoted to death and destruction and played presto and fortissimo — the electric guitarists step to the fro...

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Guns Blaze After Hamburger-Marijuana Bait-And-Switch

Some meat aficionados would probably say that a great hamburger is better than drugs. And many drug-friendly carnivores would probably say that smoking marijuana makes any hamburger into a great hamburger. But it’s not likely that either cohort would be happy if they ordered hamburgers...

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Sen. Bob Casey Wants to Ban Gun Sales to "Anyone Reasonably Suspected to be Guilty" of Misdemeanor Hate Crimes

Office of Senator Bob Casey / Wikimedia CommonsIn the wake of this past weekend’s massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.) announced in a press release today that he intends to introduce new legislation which “would prohibit the purchase, possession or ...

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Joan Ruzsa: Crime Doesn't Deter Tories -- Nor do Facts

There’s something I don’t understand about us humans. We can cure disease, explore outer space, access information from around the world in a split second and discover the God particle, and yet the best idea we have come up with to respond to crime and...

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Sex Offenders Say Idaho's Retroactive Registration Requirements Are Unconstitutional

Idaho State PoliceWhen Idaho first required sex offenders to register with police in 1993, most of them were not forced to do so for the rest of their lives. But over the years legislators extended lifetime registration to more and more crimes, and today it presumptively applies to all sex...

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Michael Phelps Suspended

Oct 6 (Reuters) – American swimmer Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, was suspended for six months by USA Swimming on Monday following his recent arrest on a drunken driving charge.


Phelps, who recently returned to top-level competition after a two-year...

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Raghida Dergham: Iran Will Be the First Beneficiary From Trump's Policies in Syria

Raghida Dergham
The US President-elect Donald Trump has caused different kinds of reactions so far: an international keenness to follow up news of his decisions and cabinet appointments, an optimistic surge in the New York stock markets, and deep apprehension among a segment of Americans and...

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The Mexican Town That Kicked Out the Cartels—and Told the Police and Political Parties to Get Lost Too

Almost a thousand miles south of Houston, the Mexican town of Cheran was once afflicted by gangsters who had branched into the timber trade. They killed, they kidnapped, and they kept cutting down trees that they didn’t have a right to take. And so, the BBC reports,
Eneas De...

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Alberta Court Mistake Leads To Change In Double Murder Verdict

EDMONTON — An Edmonton judge has changed his murder verdict to manslaughter in the high-profile case of Travis Vader and the two missing seniors he was convicted of killing.
Lawyers had returned to court to argue about whether there should be a mistrial because Justice Denny T...

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Rasheena Fountain: Empowering Inner-City Youth Through Nature

Stepping foot onto Camp Hastings campground in Lindenhurst, Illinois, in the early 90’s, the crisp fall air comforted and welcomed me like a familiar distant cousin. It was my first time away from home without my parents for an extended amount of time and years since I had experienced...

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Marcia G. Yerman: Sexual Assault on Campus: We Believe You

The Hunting Ground, a 2015 documentary examining rape on college campuses, begins with scenes of ecstatic high school seniors getting into the colleges of their choice.


These clips grimly foreshadow the horrific experience that they will encounter when they join the ranks of the one ou...

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13-Year-Old Allegedly Forced To Dance At South Beach Strip Club

A 13-year-old Miami girl was forced into prostitution and also made to dance at a fully nude strip club on South Beach, according to police.


The girl, identified only as “D.J.,” allegedly went by “Peaches” when she was forced to dance at Club Madonna on Washington...

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ESPN Writer Anxious For Answers In Son's Mysterious Disappearance

Ivan Maisel, a senior writer for ESPN.com, is clinging to the hope that his missing 21-year-old son Max will be found safe.


“We’re scared and we’re heartbroken,” Maisel said at a Wednesday press conference on a pier in western New York, near where his son’s...

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Murder Charges Filed In Death Of 3-Year-Old Shot After Facebook Fight

A man has been charged with murder in connection with the death of Amiracle Williams, a 3-year-old fatally shot last week in Detroit during a fight that reportedly started with a dispute on Facebook.


On Monday, 23-year-old Donnie Everett of Detroit was charged with first-degree murder...

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FA Launches Independent Inquiry After Child Abuse Allegations

The Football Association (FA) has launched an independent inquiry after more than 20 football players have come forward to seek help over allegations of sex abuse.
In a statement on its website, the FA said: “The FA has instructed independent leading counsel Kate Gallafent QC to assist it w...

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Letters To California Mosques Praise Donald Trump, Promise Genocide

Religious leaders in California are calling for a police investigation after identical letters were sent to local mosques hailing President-elect Donald Trump and calling for death to Muslims.
The San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) released a...

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Doug Bandow: U.S. and NATO Should End New Cold War With Russia

U.S. and NATO should end New Cold War with RussiaBy Doug Bandow


The NATO-Russia Council recently met in Brussels for the first time in nearly two years. “We are not afraid of dialogue,” announced alliance Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg. Alas, the talks didn’t get...

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Drunk Man Gives Police Taco Instead Of Photo ID

It happens to the best of us: a few beers in, you pass out clutching a half-eaten taco, sour cream and carnitas crumbs spilling onto your shirt. Hopefully, though, the last time (don’t try and pass it off like it was a one-time thing) you found yourself in this messy predicament, you...

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Kamran Pasha: Muslims Don't Hate American Values, But Some Americans Do

In the new world we live in, we are seeing a steady increase of hate crimes against Muslims in the United States. Even more troubling, I have seen an increasing number of people justify these crimes by claiming that “Muslims hate America for its values” and that we are simply...

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Canada's Crime Rate At Lowest Level Since 1972

OTTAWA – Fewer crimes were reported to police in Canada in 2011 than at any other time in the last 40 years, Statistics Canada said Tuesday — a revelation that comes as political leaders wrestle with how to curb gun violence on the streets of Toronto.
Finding an answer to t...

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U.S. Gymnast Says The Karolyis Ignored Doctor's Sex Abuse

An ex-member of the U.S. women’s gymnastics team alleged that coaches Bela and Marta Karolyi ignored that she was being sexually abused by USA Gymnastics’ team doctor and dished out their own physical and emotional abuse at their Huntsville, Texas, training center.
In a lawsuit filed Thur...

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For Battered NFL Wives, A Message From The Cops And The League: Keep Quiet

(Alex Nabaum for The Washington Post)
Whenever Dewan Smith-Williams sees Janay Rice on television, she feels like she’s looking into a mirror. Smith-Williams, 44, remembers the denial, the secrecy, the sense of isolation, the shame. But most of all, she remembers the fear of ruining her h...

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Man Accused Of War Crimes In Somalia Works Security At A U.S. Airport

A CNN investigation found that Yusuf Abdi Ali, who is accused of committing atrocities while he was a military commander during Somalia’s brutal civil war, has been living a quiet life near the nation’s capital for about 20 years.
He is just one of more than 1,000 accused war...

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'For God's Sakes, Someone Speak Up': Missing College Student's Mom

The devastated family of Zuzu Renee Verk, a 22-year-old college student who mysteriously vanished in West Texas three weeks ago, is desperately seeking information on her whereabouts.
“Someone knows something,” Verk’s mother, Lori Verk, told The Huffington Post. “We just want to find her. Fo...

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Racist Alt-Right Posters Shock Edmontonians

Edmontonians were shocked to find racist posters promoting white nationalism posted around the downtown core Monday morning.
The posters proclaimed “It’s Only Racist When White People Do It,” and “Tired of Anti-White Propaganda? You Are Not Alone.”...

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Father Charged After Son, 6, Fatally Shoots 3-Year-Old Brother

A Chicago man is in jail after his 6-year-old son fatally shot his 3-year-old brother with a gun left in the kitchen.
Michael Santiago, 25, was charged with one count of felony child endangerment resulting in death for knowingly storing a loaded firearm on top of the refrigerator at his West ...

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Darius Adams: Dear NCAA: My Mom Is a Sexual Assault Survivor and You Can Help

My name is Darius Adams. I’m the son of Brenda Tracy who is a public rape survivor. It was 2010 when my mom first told me that she was raped. I was 17. We were sitting in our car in our driveway. I remember it because it was a life-changing moment for me. She didn’t tell me...

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Report: 'The First 48' Makes Millions Off Imprisoning Innocents

Taiwan Smart repeatedly said he didn’t commit or witness the murders. The cops didn’t listen.
Marta Xochilt Perez







No one thought twice about the gunshots. It was just before midnight on NW 77th Street in Little Haiti. At that time of night, neighbors would later...

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Missing Mom's Boyfriend: 'They Know Something Happened to Her'

The boyfriend of an upstate New York mother of three who has been missing since last month said police have told him to prepare for the worst.


“The cops sat me down and literally looked at me and said, ‘Don’t plan on her coming home alive,'” Adam Siskavich told The H...

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These Are The Major Cities With The Highest Murder Rates In America

The FBI has released its annual stats for major U.S. cities with the highest crime figures. Topping the list — with far and away the worst murder and violent crime rates — is Detroit.


The bureau on Monday published its 2013 Uniform Crime Reporting statistics, which show in...

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The Women Jo Cox Tried To Protect As She Was Murdered Speak Out About Their Friend

Two women who worked with MP Jo Cox and were with her when she was murdered have said they are still trying to cope with the “surreal” loss of their friend.


Fazila Aswat and Sandra Major were leaving a car with the Labour MP for Batley and Spen as she arrived for a surgery in Birstall, Wes...

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Hawthorne teen on way home from church shot to death in Lynwood

A 16-year-old girl riding in a car with her family after attending church was shot to death in Lynwood in what authorities said Thursday was a gang-related shooting targeting someone else.
The victim later was identified as Danah Rojo Rivas of...

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James Sherr: Taking War Seriously: a Russia-NATO Showdown Is No Longer Just Fiction

NATO’s former Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, General Sir Richard Shirreff’s new book, “2017: War With Russia,” is a work of fiction. But its subject — a clash between NATO and Russia as early as next year — is not completely fanciful.


When Russia...

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Two Waffle House Employees Arrested For Armed Robbery Conspiracy

Theft takes a slice out of the bottom line of virtually every restaurant. Waiters and cooks munch on little handfuls of french fries and give free drinks to their friends all the time. But last month, the Waffle House in Richburg, South Carolina fell victim to a far more insidious form of...

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Watch Matt Welch Talk Policing and Black Lives Matter on MSNBC’s AM Joy at 10 a.m. ET

Editor’s Note: We invite comments and request that they be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of Reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to...

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Joan Ruzsa: Vic Toews and the League of Imaginary Crime Fighters

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So this is rich: the Conservatives are taking credit for the falling crime rate. On July 24, after Statistics Canada reported that police-reported crime was at its lowest level in 40 years, Minister of Public Safety Vic Toews tweeted “Crime rate down 6%...

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Electoral Politics Is a Horrible Context In Which to Talk About Sexual Consent

John Rudoff/Polaris/NewscomWith less than a month left until the 2016 presidential election, the focus has shifted from immigration, foreign affairs, free trade, and other (nominal) questions of policy to whether the Republican nominee is a sexual predator and how much room his opponent has...

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Steenkamp Lawyer: "Justice Was Served"

The parents of Reeva Steenkamp were satisfied with the five-year prison sentence received by Oscar Pistorius, according to a family lawyer. Revealed by Judge Thokozile Masipa on Tuesday in a South African court room, the sentence came several weeks after the double-amputee track star had...

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This African Nation Just Made Legal History For Victims Of Injustice Everywhere

A special court in the West African nation of Senegal reached a historic verdict this week.
It found Hissène Habré, the 73-year-old former president of Chad, guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, rape, kidnapping and sexual slavery. He was sentenced to life in prison.
“Today … will ...

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Get Your Tabloid Television On and Revisit Serial Killers, Karen Carpenter

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People Magazine Investigates: The Long Island Serial Killer. Investigation Discovery. Monday, November 7,...

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Crack Addicts Using Stolen Oilpatch Supplies To Make Pipes

CALGARY – When it comes to protecting thousands of remote oil and gas well sites scattered across Alberta’s prairies and foothills, RCMP Cpl. Curtis Peters is more concerned about crack addicts than vandals.
The 854 crimes reported at those sites in the first 10 months of 2...

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