racial profiling
Racial profiling in law enforcement is a deep-rooted issue with far-reaching ramifications; voice your take on 'broken-windows' policing and controversies surrounding race and crime.
The Complex Life of the World's Most Notorious Drug Lord"
The Complex Life of the World's Most Notorious Drug Lord" Pablo Escobar was a notorious Colombian drug lord who rose to power in the 1970s and 1980s as the leader of the Medellín Cartel. He was known for his ruthless tactics and vast wealth, and at one point was considered one of the richest men in the world.
By Paul Smith3 years ago in Criminal
A Couple Who Made Racist Threats At Black Child’s Birthday Were Sentenced To Combined 19 Years In Prison
A Georgia couple was sentenced to a total of 19 years in jail for making terroristic threats against African-Americans, including during a child's birthday celebration.
By Rare Stories3 years ago in Criminal
The 34 Best True Crime Documentaries and Series of 2022 (So Far)
The 34 Best True Crime Documentaries and Series of 2022 (So Far) All fans of true crime, take note: A fresh slate of compelling new documentaries and scripted true-crime shows to watch arrives with the start of a new year. We can already see trends developing for the real crime themes that will come as new projects are launched. The Summer of Scam(opens in new tab), anyone?) and other crimes that captured our attention in the past are developed into a series in 2022 that will detail everything we now know about what happened. These 2022 true-crime documentaries and series are for those itching to learn the entire tale of their favorite con artists.
By Paul Smith3 years ago in Criminal
10 Lesser-Known Americans Currently Detained in Non-U.S. Prisons
10 Lesser-Known Americans Currently Detained in Non-U.S. Prisons Some people applauded and others denounced Brittney Griner's recent release from a Russian jail colony on the morning of December 8, 2022. On the same day, Sarah Krivanek, an American citizen who had been ordered deported from Russia owing to a domestic dispute, also left the country. Krivanek, in contrast to Griner, did not take part in the prisoner swap that saw Griner traded for Viktor Bout, the subject of the Nicholas Cage movie Lord of War from 2005. Paul Whelan, a former Marine and corporate executive who was found guilty of espionage and is currently serving a 16-year term, is a third prisoner who is well-known. What many people don't realize is that there are many more prisoners being held in jails outside of the United States than just these three. There are many more of these people; this article only names ten.
By Paul Smith3 years ago in Criminal
Permanent Daylight Saving Time will hurt our health, experts say
CNN The end of Daylight Saving Time is upon us again, an autumn tradition when the United States, Europe, most of Canada and a number of other countries move their clocks backwards an hour in a sort of Groundhog Day trust fall. We’ll move them forward (again) next spring when governments put daylight saving back in place.
By Weight Lose Coach - Anna Popova3 years ago in Criminal
Why A Woman Married A Serial Killer (The Nightstalker)
In the balmy heat of a California summer’s night in 1985, the man known as the Nightstalker slides himself through an open window of a house. He walks into a bedroom room and fires his 25-calibre handgun five times into the body of a sleeping man. Three bullets hit the man’s head, one glances off his thumb, and the other bursts the waterbed he’s sleeping on. The Nightstalker walks into another room and grabs the man’s girlfriend, binding her hands with the now-dying man’s tie. When she looks into his dark eyes, she swears she sees the devil incarnate.
By Jayveer Vala3 years ago in Criminal
A Thin Blue Line
"To be a police officer means to believe in the law and to enforce it impartially respecting the equality of all men and the dignity and worth of every individual. Every day, your life will be on the line and also your character. You'll need integrity, courage, honesty compassion, courtesy and perseverance and patience. You men are now prepared to join the war against crime and put the theory you have learned into practice in the streets" (Serpico, 03:48-04:27). As mentioned in this quote, the heart of policing the streets of any city or state lies in the ability to judge impartially.
By C. J. Pharez3 years ago in Criminal
Timeline of Central Park Jogger Case
April 19, 1989: after 9pm, a group of 33 teenagers went into Central Park at 110th Street and 5th Avenue for the purpose of beating and robbing people in the park – an activity known as “wilding.”As the group traveled south through the park, they harassed and assaulted random people they encountered. At least seven men – joggers, walkers, and bikers – were attacked by the group between 9pm and 10pm. Two of the men had such serious head injuries that they were hospitalized. As the group was rioting through the park, different people who saw them or who were harassed by them notified the police. Central Park police officers began searching for the group, traveling to the last destination where the group had reportedly been. And the young men, seeing approaching police lights, retreated into the darkness and behind trees to avoid the police. Finally, at almost 10pm, the group left the park at West 96th Street. The Central Park police officers, unable to find the youths, also left the park and immediately saw a large number of young men walking north on Central Park West. The officers tried to detain the group, but the young men scattered – some running west and others jumping the wall and running back into Central Park. Five of the teens – including KEVIN RICHARDSON and RAYMOND SANTANA were arrested in or adjacent to Central Park, shortly after the last assault and robbery occurred. The rest of the group fled. At the time, the group was intercepted, the police did not yet know that a female jogger had been raped, beaten, and left for dead in the woods north of the 102nd Street transverse. The police were interviewing the young men who had been apprehended and preparing paper work to charge them with the assaults and robberies for the crimes against the male victims.
By Gladys W. Muturi3 years ago in Criminal
Good Cop Bad Cop Psycho Cop
The George Floyd catastrophe was not an arrest so much as it was a crime in progress. From the beginning, the encounter between Floyd and the Minneapolis Police Department disintegrated rapidly, and it culminated in Floyd’s death. A cluster of complicated factors, including officer complicity and the phenomenon known as contempt of cop, played into the debacle, with race looming over the entire encounter like a miasmic cloud. Taken together, these factors solidified themselves into a gordian knot of police mistakes that ended in murder and the launch of the Black Lives Matter movement.
By L. Erin Giangiacomo3 years ago in Criminal
If You Think Scottsboro Boys & Central Park Five were wrongfully accused of crime, Think Again.
Unlike the Scottsboro Boys and the Central Park Five, a group of teenaged boys from the 1930s and the 1980s who were wrongfully convicted of crime then years later exonerated after they were founded innocent.
By Gladys W. Muturi3 years ago in Criminal
