Ex-AL Corrections Officer Gets Prison Term For Allowing Beating
Willie M. Burks III was sentenced to nine years in federal prison after being convicted last year for not intervening to stop an officer...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 7
- 1 min
S.F. Mayor Breed Suggests Ways To Cut Overdoses In Tenderloin Area
San Francisco Mayor London Breed unveiled a plan to turn the tide against drug-related fatalities in the Tenderloin neighborhood, where...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 7
- 2 min
NYC Mayor Adams, Ex-Police Officer, May Be Judged by Anticrime Policies
Just before he took office, New York City Mayor Eric Adams visited a Brooklyn church for a memorial service honoring two police officers...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 7
- 1 min
Ex-Police Officer Drew Peterson Gets Hearing In Wife-Killing Case
A decade after an Illinois jury convicted former police officer Drew Peterson of killing his third wife, the judge who sentenced him to...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 6
- 1 min
Rampant Staff-on-Inmate Sex Abuse Reported at CA Federal Prison
Inmates in a federal prison for women in Dublin, Ca., say they have been subjected to rampant sexual abuse by correctional officers and...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 6
- 1 min
Minneapolis Halts No-Knock Warrants After Locke Killing
Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey imposed a moratorium on no-knock warrants Friday, two days after a SWAT team aiding a homicide investigation...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 4
- 2 min
NYC DA Bragg, In Reversal, Vows Tough Prosecution of Serious Crimes
New Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg on Friday issued harsher new guidance on the prosecution of gun possession and robbery that...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Federal Prison Population Rising Again After 'Time Credits' Reform
After the Department of Justice last month announced its rules for implementing the "time credits" program required by the 2018 First...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Investors Front Money to Wrongful Convicted People Seeking Damages
Charles Johnson was released from prison in 2016, after serving 22 years for a crime he didn’t commit. He had one item of potential...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Body Cam Footage Released of MN Man's Killing by SWAT Team
Minneapolis police released body-camera footage showing a SWAT team officer shooting and killing a Black man, Amir Locke, reports the...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 4
- 1 min
NYC Police Official Tries Different Crime Prevention Approach
Classes had been dismissed at a Brooklyn, N.Y., high school when student Devonte Lewis stepped outside and two of his rivals opened fire,...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 4
- 1 min
CA Police Department Combines Use of Drones, Zoom
Law enforcers in Oceanside, Ca., have begun combining the use of drones and the video conferencing app Zoom, reports Governing.com....
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 4
- 2 min
Critics Charge Sheriffs With Donations Conflicts of Interest
A conflict of interest arises from many political donations to sheriffs, including those from medical providers and bail bond companies...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Voter Registration Attempt Brings Black TN Woman 6 Years in Prison
Pamela Moses, a 44-year-old Black Memphis activist who was convicted in November for trying to register to vote while she was ineligible,...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 4
- 1 min
1.25M Years Of Life Lost To Youth Drug Overdoses In Four Years
Researchers have turned to counting years of life lost instead of a sheer number of deaths when measuring the impact of drug overdoses...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Greg and Travis McMichael To Stand Federal Trial in Arbery Case
Greg McMichael and his son Travis, both convicted in the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, have reversed their planned guilty pleas to a federal...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 4
- 1 min
Biden's New Cyber Safety Review Board To Review Log4j Bug
The Biden administration's newly formed Cyber Safety Review Board will tackle the Log4j internet bug as its first case, the Wall Street...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 3
- 1 min
L.A. May Limit Police 'Pretextual Stops' That Have Plagued Minorities
The Los Angeles Police Department may limit “pretextual stops” of motorists and pedestrians, arguing they aren’t effective and have...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 3
- 2 min
Houston Anticrime Plan Focuses on Cutting Court Backlogs
With more than 40 homicides already in 2022 and three police recovering after a gunman shot them last week, Houston Mayor Sylvester...
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Crime and Justice News
- Feb 3
- 1 min
Opioid Overdose Deaths Could Rise Dramatically Through 2029
More than 1.2 million more people across North America are expected to die of opioid overdoses by 2029 if dramatic interventions are not...
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