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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