Crime
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Infographic: State-by-State Driving Laws
Marisa Mostek | July 22, 2014Whether near your home or on the other side of the country, you're responsible for knowing the driving laws...
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New Orleans Police Attempt to Regain Public Trust by Wearing Patrol Cameras
Nicole Roberts | July 14, 2014The Department of Justice investigation into the New Orleans Police Department following Hurricane Katrina resulted in sweeping reforms of...
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Arming the Police Against American Citizens, Part II
Jake Ephros | July 8, 2014Recent media attention has shed light on many of the controversial aspects of police militarization, from excessive force to...
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Gun Violence Isn’t Off the Charts – It’s Actually Going Down
Nicole Roberts | June 27, 2014Sandy Hook, the Naval Yard, Santa Barbara, and most recently Oregon – have all proved that mass shootings are...
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Militarization: Arming the Police Against American Citizens – Part 1
Jake Ephros | June 26, 2014Last month, a SWAT team in Georgia severely injured a 19-month old child with a flash-bang grenade during a...
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Colorado Crime Down Since Pot Legalization; is Washington to Follow?
Marisa Mostek | June 24, 2014After Colorado's legalization of recreational marijuana, skeptics believed the rate of crime would elevate if not skyrocket; however, the...
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Continual Mass Shootings Prompt Tactical Changes Within Law Enforcement Community
Marisa Mostek | June 20, 2014Some schools cancelled all classes the day following the Columbine shooting in Colorado in 1999. Students around the nation...
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Slenderman Made Me Do It
Marisa Mostek | June 12, 2014A new, faceless horror threatens to wreak havoc on our lives by stalking and killing children, and is now...
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A Mass Shooting, Ignored
Jake Ephros | June 11, 2014Seattle Pacific University lost one student and three others were wounded last Thursday in a shooting on campus. The...
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Startling Effects of Repeated Sexual Assault
Marisa Mostek | June 11, 2014A new study conducted by the University of Missouri finds that those who experience repeated sexual assault are significantly...
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Cyberbullying Knows No Socioeconomic Bounds
Marisa Mostek | June 6, 2014One of the greatest fears of parents today is that their child or teen will be the victim of...
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Is Rape Part of the Sentence?
Nicole Roberts | June 5, 2014In 2011 there were 8,763 allegations of sexual victimization in American prisons, jails and other adult correctional facilities, according...
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World’s Largest Cyber Crime Ring Disbanded
Marisa Mostek | June 5, 2014An international operation led by the United States caught a group of cyber criminals spearheading the largest cyber crime...
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Domestic Violence: Ending the Trend
Jake Ephros | June 5, 2014For every five cases of violent victimization, one of them is domestic violence, according to a recent publication by...
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Who Said (Cyber)crime Doesn’t Pay?
Jake Ephros | June 4, 2014The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently released a report with a stunning conclusion: people are losing more money...
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Cybercrimes: Does the Punishment Actually Fit the Crime?
Nicole Roberts | June 4, 2014The recent attack on the New York Times by a group of Chinese Hackers has once again brought the...
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UK Citizens Face Massive Online Threat
Trevor Smith | June 3, 2014Citizens of the UK have just two weeks to protect themselves from a dangerous computer virus that could potentially...
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Criminals Availing in Cyberspace
Marisa Mostek | June 3, 2014Security breaches among major companies such as Target, eBay, and Neiman Marcus dominated news headlines this past year and...
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What’s New: Police Brutality is the Norm in Oakland
Kevin Rizzo | April 15, 2014Recently, an independent investigation into 22 years worth of court filings revealed a history of misconduct by the Oakland...
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Public Opinion Shifts on Drug Sentencing
Kevin Rizzo | April 11, 2014A report released on Wednesday concluded that public opinion on drug offenses has started to shift, as a preference...
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Behind the FBI’s Crime Statistics
Kevin Rizzo | April 4, 2014Here at Law Street, we focus a lot of attention on the FBI’s annual and semiannual crime statistics, yet...
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Private Prisons Much More Likely to Hold Minorities
Kevin Rizzo | March 24, 2014A recent study concluded that private prisons are more likely to hold African American prisoners when compared to public correction facilities....
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Crime Drops 20 Percent in St. Louis; Hot-Spot Policing Credited
Kevin Rizzo | March 6, 2014St. Louis has consistently been ranked one of the most dangerous cities in America over the last several years,...
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Latest FBI Data is Mixed Bag for Top 10 Safest Cities
Chelsey D. Goff | March 4, 2014The FBI’s latest data shows crime dropping nationally; however, the results for the Top 10 Safest Cities were not...
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Latest Data Shows Violent Crime Across America is Down
Kevin Rizzo | February 21, 2014Violent crime in the United States was down by 5.4 percent in the first six months of 2013, according...
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New FBI Data for Dangerous Mid-Sized Cities: Crime Drops, Flint Stands Out
Chelsey D. Goff | February 20, 2014Mirroring the national trend of declining violent crime, the majority of Law Street’s Top 10 Most Dangerous Cities under...
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Crime in America 2014
Chelsey D. Goff | February 18, 2014On February 18, 2014, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released preliminary crime statistics for the first six months...
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New FBI Data Shows Crime Dropping; Some Top 10 Dangerous Defy Trend
Chelsey D. Goff | February 18, 2014Violent crime across the United States continues its downward trend, according to data released today by the Federal Bureau...
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Infographic: Crime Dropping Across the US
Kevin Rizzo | February 18, 2014Kevin Rizzo Kevin Rizzo is the Crime in America Editor at Law Street Media. An Ohio Native, the George...
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Redefining Rape: The FBI’s Latest Statistics
Anneliese Mahoney | February 18, 2014Law Street’s inaugural Crime in America rankings, based on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) Uniform Crime Statistics, were...