tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56581172011-04-21T13:44:17.239-05:00A collection of information on crime, policing, corrections and criminal justice researchsusanna in alabamanoreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658117.post-1090728007009928152004-07-24T21:51:00.000-05:002004-07-24T23:00:07.010-05:00

It appears that the husband of missing Utah woman Lori Hacking is now a person of extreme interest, upgraded from just "person of interest": SALT LAKE CITY  — Bloodstains have been found all over the apartment of Mark and Lori Hacking (search), family and investigative sources told Fox News... investigators detected a substantial amount of blood and blood drippings using the forensic chemical 

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A pregnant 27-year-old woman, Lori Hacking, is missing in Utah, and her husband is behaving bizarrely. The case is eerily reminescent of the Laci Peterson case, although the origin of the husband's behavior is markedly different. The last person who supposedly saw Hacking alive was a woman claiming she saw Hacking stretching at a nearby park, where Hacking normally jogged each morning. Her

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Some attorneys are charging that the US court system is shutting out the media in too many aspects of celebrity trials.   "The idea that you have justice and then you have celebrity justice is really offensive," said Lucy Dalglish, executive director of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. "Does the public understand what preferential treatment these people are receiving from the

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A museum dedicated to the Los Angeles Police Department opened last year, and this article in the NY Times tells about several of its exhibits: The sight of two life-sized mannequins toting machine guns and wearing bloodstained body armor has brought gasps from kids and tears from tough cops. The figures at the Los Angeles Police Department Museum depict the two heavily armed bank robbers who

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This article in the National Review looks at the tactics of Kobe Bryant's defense attorney during the preliminary hearing, and finds them not just inappropriate behavior but also a sign of deteriorating protections for victims in the criminal justice system.

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Some figuratively, quite a few literally: Stun guns which can paralyse potentially violent suspects with a 50,000-volt charge could be issued as standard equipment in every police car in Britain from next year. Forces around the country are expected to deploy the weapons, known as tasers, after the completion of trials in April. The figurative shock comes from the fact that something is used

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Vol Market owners carry handguns openly to deter crime. [Link via Instapundit] Categories: Guns. Deterrence. Citizen self-protection.

susanna in alabamanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658117.post-1061124988892599942003-08-17T07:56:00.000-05:002003-08-17T08:07:59.273-05:00

Comparisons between the blackout this past week and the ones in 1965 and 1977 are inevitable, especially in the New York City area which was an anarchic mess in 1977. This article in Slate by David Greenberg tackles the question of why there was relative calm this time around: Even if news reports prove to have been overly rosy—this morning Mayor Michael Bloomberg reported just one

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Technology continues its inroads into policing: There are new high-tech eyes helping police in communities along the route of the Woodward Dream Cruise this year -- and privacy advocates aren't happy about it. Six remote-controlled surveillance cameras have been set up to transmit live video images of crowd and traffic conditions to handheld and laptop computers carried by cops. It's the

susanna in alabamanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5658117.post-1060658772782038702003-08-11T22:26:00.000-05:002003-08-11T22:26:12.800-05:00

Attorney Jonna A. Spilbor thinks it's something we need to consider more: The statistics on false rape reports in the U.S. are widely divergent, and often too outdated to be meaningful. Not surprisingly, the numbers also depend on whom you ask. Organizations that tout a feminist agenda claim the number of false rape reports to be nearly non-existent - about two percent. But other organizations,

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The giant gets busted: A federal jury awarded a software company and the University of California more than $520 million in damages Monday after finding that Microsoft Corp.'s popular Internet Explorer browser infringed on a patent... Eolas [Technologies] was launched in 1994 to market technology that allows users to access interactive programs embedded in Web pages. Eolas chairman Michael

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US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy thinks federal minimum sentences should be lowered: "Our resources are misspent, our punishments too severe, our sentences too long," Kennedy told the annual meeting of the American Bar Association (search), his remark met by long applause. "I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences," Kennedy said. "In all

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A Pittsburgh woman was charged last month with child endangerment after she was stopped by police for breastfeeding her daughter while driving. She was found innocent today of the child endangerment, but was found guilty of other charges: A woman who breast-fed her baby while driving on the Ohio Turnpike was found innocent of child endangering and convicted of three other misdemeanors on Friday.

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Four people were shot and killed and two others were critically wounded late Wednesday in Denver's worst mass homicide in more than a decade. Police have no suspects or motive as yet. Categories: Homicide.

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A Minnesota man must register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, even though he's never been convicted of a sex crime - and the courts have upheld the law saying so: The case arose from an encounter in a bar in 1998. Brian Gunderson went home with a woman he met there and, according to her, assaulted and raped her. He was charged two days later with sexual assault. But the physical

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