AltWeeklies Wire
Disturbing New Evidence About the Oakland Police Departmentnew
Court documents reveal that some Oakland police commanders believe cops could avoid shooting suspects if they were allowed to "rough" people up.
East Bay Express |
Ali Winston |
10-10-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Long Island's $2M-a-Year Counterfeiting Problemnew
An inside look at the illegal counterfeiting trade on Long Island, its origins, and the Secret Service's struggle to stop it.
Long Island Press |
Rashed Mian |
10-05-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: counterfeiting
Justice Deniednew
A tangled bureaucracy has left tribal communities facing an epidemic of violent crime.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Colleen Keane |
10-05-2012 |
Crime & Justice
I Watched Him Dienew
From my second-story desk window at the Salt Lake City Weekly office, I watched a standoff unfold between police and Anthony Mayhew, who’d threatened to blow himself up in front of our offices.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Eric S. Peterson |
10-05-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Anthony Mayhew
New Tactic for Crime?new
Detroit cops to target gang members with 'cease fire' strategy.
Metro Times |
Larry Gabriel |
09-26-2012 |
Crime & Justice
How Many Cops are Enough?new
Bottom line on Summer Safety Initiative: budget cuts mean more dead bodies
NOW Magazine |
ENZO DI MATTEO |
09-25-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Police, public safety
Liberty For Salenew
Should Ohio inmates be commodities in a for-profit venture?
Cincinnati CityBeat |
German Lopez |
09-20-2012 |
Crime & Justice
What Texas Criminal Justice Reformers Could Teach the Booming Immigrant Detention Systemnew
GOP State Rep. Jerry Madden took the helm of the House corrections committee in 2005, just in time for a deeply distressing projection: booming incarceration in our notoriously tough-on-crime state meant Texas would need eight new prisons by 2012, at a cost of about $1 billion.
San Antonio Current |
Michael Barajas |
09-20-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: jail, criminal justice
Eastern standardnew
In unincorporated El Paso County, sheriff's deputies often walk (or drive) alone.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Chet Hardin |
09-19-2012 |
Crime & Justice
DOJ: Alamance County sheriff's office racially profiled Latinosnew
U.S. Department of Justice officials report that Alamance County Sheriff's Office leaders "explicitly" order deputies to target Latinos and "foster a culture of bias by using anti-Latino epithets."
INDY Week |
Billy Ball |
09-19-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Death Row Inmate Hoping for Supreme Interventionnew
The Court of Criminal Appeals last week denied a stay of execution for Robert Wayne Harris, convicted in 2000 of killing two people during a shooting spree at the Mi-T-Fine Car Wash in Irving. Unless the federal courts intervene, on Sept. 20 he'll be the eighth man executed in Texas this year.
Austin Chronicle |
Jordan Smith |
09-18-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Tags: Death Penalty, Death Row
At Closing Timenew
Cold case: Two years ago, Anthony Duron, an innocent bystander, was killed at Pearl nightclub.
Tucson Weekly |
Brian J. Pedersen |
09-13-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Controversy Swells Over 9/11 Nonprofit Event and Its Foundernew
Vincent Forras, a former South Salem, N.Y. firefighter, claims to have been trapped in the rubble at Ground Zero and saved himself after receiving a vision from God.
The Village Voice |
Graham Rayman |
09-10-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Social Media for Justicenew
A friend of a slain woman takes to Facebook in an attempt to get charges re-filed.
Tucson Weekly |
Brian J. Pedersen |
09-06-2012 |
Crime & Justice
Run-on Sentencenew
An unforgiving and broken system is forcing sex offenders further to the fringes of society—and that’s dangerous for all of us.
Philadelphia City Paper |
Samantha Melamed |
08-24-2012 |
Crime & Justice
