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University, city follow national lower crime trend
Minnesota Daily
Following a national trend of a drop in crime rates, the University of Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis ended 2012 with historic lows in several categories of serious crime. The national downward trend in crime is because of better technology and ...

BBC News
China Communists to Control Size of Party Amid Corruption Fight
Businessweek
The statement comes as part of a crackdown on corruption following Xi's elevation to party general secretary in November that has netted officials including Li Chuncheng, a deputy party secretary in Sichuan province removed on suspicion of discipline ...
How serious is China on corruption?BBC News
Chinese anti-corruption drive nets Politburo member - paperReuters
Anti-corruption campaign nets biggest fish yet, Politburo member reportedly ...Shanghaiist
People's Daily Online -New Tang Dynasty Television -World Tribune
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Brisbane Times
China Communists to Control Size of Party Amid Corruption Fight
Bloomberg
The statement comes as part of a crackdown on corruption following Xi's elevation to party general secretary in November that has netted officials including Li Chuncheng, a deputy party secretary in Sichuan province removed on suspicion of discipline ...
Police pressure sex-tape whistle-blower in corruption scandalSouth China Morning Post
Chinese sex scandal blogger now fears for his safetySydney Morning Herald
Chinese Blogger Who Exposed Sex Scandal Faces Police PressureVoice of America (blog)
GlobalPost
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South Bay woman, man charged in alleged murder-for-hire plot
Los Angeles Times
A woman was charged in federal court Monday with hiring a hit man to kill her daughter's boyfriend, the Associated Press is reporting. The alleged plan was foiled when the alleged hit man turned out to be an undercover agent for the U.S. Bureau of ...
Mother Allegedly Involved In Murder-For-Hire Scheme To Kill Daughter's BoyfriendCBS Local
LA-area couple charged in murder-for-hire schemeSacramento Bee
LA-area pair charged in murder-for-hire schemeEnquirerherald

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9NEWS.com
Police fight surge in crime along East Colfax
9NEWS.com
DENVER - Police are taking new steps to fight a surge in crime along one of Denver's most eclectic corridors. Denver police, neighbors, and businesses are banding together to take back East Colfax. A newstip from neighbors got our attention and Denver ...

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ABINGDON, Va. -- A University of Virginia at Wise student accused of falsely reporting a gunman on campus is facing federal charges. Bryant Alexander Hairston... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tyler-kingkade/

A lawyer for JonBenet Ramsey's parents called a former Colorado district attorney a "hero" for refusing to sign an indictment -- voted on by a grand jury, according to a report -- and press a case against his clients in the 6-year-old girl's 1996 death.

SAN FRANCISCO -- Former San Francisco 49er Kwame Harris has been charged with felony domestic violence and assault charges from an August beating involving a... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-greenberg/

KGO-TV
A look at Bill Bratton's crime rate track record
KGO-TV
This is what Bratton said in a phone interview with ABC7 News last week, "On the issue of crime, I have a strong belief that police have the significant impact on reducing it and you reduce it by effectively controlling illegal behavior to such an ...
Is William Bratton Getting Too Much Credit for the Crime Reductions He Oversaw?SF Weekly (blog)

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The Express Tribune
Ending corruption in Pakistan
The Express Tribune
Imran Khan, leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, has made eradicating corruption a central plank of his campaign platform. Last year, he commissioned me to examine the kind of legislation required to tackle corruption and the result is a report ...

LaPierre does have a point. We do need to address the way our culture glorifies violence. But the priority must be to stop the bleeding. David J. Dunn, PhD http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-j-dunn-phd/

NBC Connecticut
Murder Warrant: Neighbors Heard Violent Fight
Hartford Courant
Jini Barnum's boyfriend has been charged with murder four months after her body was discovered. By CHRISTINE DEMPSEY, cdempsey@courant.com The Hartford Courant. 9:48 p.m. EST, January 28, 2013. EAST HAMPTON—. — A neighbor who lived ...
PD: Live-in boyfriend arrested for murderWTNH
Boyfriend Charged With Murder of East Hampton WomanNBC Connecticut
Boyfriend Charged With Strangulation, Murder In Missing Woman's DeathCBS Local
Middletown Press -Patch.com
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Dad is identified as JUSTIN MCINTYRE. Like I always say, it takes a special kind of sh** to abuse a newborn....

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Father Sentenced For Child Abuse

OTTAWA COUNTY, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - An Ottawa County man was in court Monday to receive his sentence for critically injuring his infant son.

Last month a jury found Justin McIntyre guilty of second-degree child abuse.

Police say McIntyre violently shook his six-week-old son Bentley back in August, causing critical head injuries. 

Bentley spent several weeks in the hospital before going home to continue his recovery.

Monday McIntyre received 19 months to 120 months in prison, with credit for 157 days served. Restitution will be determined at a later date.

Sounds like your typical scenario. A batterer who is also a child abuser. No surprise there. In this case, an @$$ hole who BIT HIS 2-MONTH OLD SON and broke his rib because he was "frustrated" from the baby's crying. 

Notice that this sh** is in a batterer intervention program, and STILL this guy is full of freaking self pity and takes NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS ACTIONS. It's all pissing and whining about how he's "too young" to go through this. Doesn't even occur to him that his 2-month-old son is too young to be bitten.  Pure batterer narcissism, folks. There is no therapy for this because there is no conscience there.

Dad is identified as STEVEN VALASQUEZ. 

http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12009710800079/young-boston-father-faces-child-abuse-charges/

Young Boston father faces child abuse charges

Posted: Today at 5:05 pm Updated: Today at 5:26 pm

BOSTON (WHDH) -- A Boston father is facing charges after allegedly abusing his 2-month-old son.

Steven Velasquez asked the court to let him cover his face while he faced charges for hurting his two-month-old son.

“This is my life we're talking about. This is my life we're talking about. I’m too young to be going through this man,” said Velasquez.

Prosecutors said the 19-year-old South Boston man bit his son several times and broke the baby's rib. Doctors found the injuries when the boy was taken to Children's Hospital. The baby's mother tells police Velasquez did it.

“She states that the defendant had done it. He had squeezed the child until the rib had fractured,” said Asst. District Attorney David Newton.

According to the prosecution, the mother also told a Boston Public Housing employee about the alleged abuse saying this:

“He's been abusing me and won't let the kids eat their food. He threw the baby down on the bed. He tossed him because he wouldn't stop crying,” read Newton.

Velasquez is enrolled in a court ordered batterer intervention program. The baby's mother originally told police the bite marks came from another child.

The defense argues allegations against Velazquez come at same time as the couple's unfolding family court battle.

“There's certainly something going on between him and the mother of his children,” said Arthur Shabo, defense attorney.

Velasquez is the father of three children. He is being held on $50,000 bail.

BBC News
Governments fall short in fighting defense corruption: survey
Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - More than two-thirds of countries, including many of the world's largest arms traders, have inadequate safeguards to prevent corruption in their defense sectors, a survey by an anti-corruption watchdog said on Tuesday. Germany and ...
Saudi Arabia Leads Major Weapons Markets in Corruption RankingBloomberg
Defence sector corruption rife, new survey claimsBBC News
China's military at "high risk" on corruption: watchdogChannel News Asia
DefenseNews.com -Ynetnews -RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
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NBC4 Washington
Slain teen's sister testifies at murder trial
San Francisco Chronicle
BALTIMORE (AP) — Jurors in the murder trial of a man accused of killing a North Carolina teenager saw a sexually explicit cell phone video of the victim, her sister, the man accused of killing her and his younger brother. The dead teen's sister also ...
Teen Murder Victim's Sister Testifies in BaltimoreNBC4 Washington
Phylicia Barnes' Older Sister Testifies About Drunken Sex Tape In Murder TrialCBS Local
Family members expected to take the stand in Phylicia Barnes murder trialABC2 News

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Dad is identified as JERROD DAVIS. 

http://www.whas11.com/news/crimetracker/Radcliff-father-facing-murder-charges-for-sons-death-188758861.html

Radcliff father facing murder charges for son's death

by WHAS11
Posted on January 28, 2013 at 7:01 PM

RADCLIFF, Ky. (WHAS11) -- A father living in Radcliff is facing murder charges surrounding the death of his one month-old son.

23-year-old Jarrod Davis was indicted for murder in Hardin County last week and will be arraigned on Tuesday. 

Davis was arrested earlier this month and charged with second-degree manslaughter.

According to police, Davis told them that he dropped his son, and the child hit his head on a crib.

Casey Anthony may now be mulling over a career in the courtroom. The Florida mother who was charged with -- and later acquitted of --... The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/meredith-bennettsmith/

Ex-Cudahy mayor gets federal prison in corruption case
Los Angeles Times
A former Cudahy mayor was sentenced to a year in federal prison Monday for his part in taking $17,000 in bribes from a man who wanted to open a medical marijuana dispensary in the southeast Los Angeles County city. David Silva is the second Cudahy ...

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An editorial in Monday's New York Times says New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is headed in the right direction to strengthen law enforcement's ability to exonerate the innocent and convict the guilty. Last year, he passed a criminal justice package in the Legislature that omitted important fixes that would greatly reduce wrongful convictions. This year, he is building on recommendations by the Innocence Project and the New York Bar Association's Task Force on Wrongful Convictions to pass reforms that would improve the way police conduct interrogations and identification procedures. The New York Times writes:>/p>

Mr. Cuomo would require the police to videotape interrogations of people charged with serious crimes, including homicides, kidnapping and violent sex offenses - a step that would bring New York in line with 18 states and the District of Columbia.

New York City's police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, has begun to put such a policy in place. This is a positive step, but it does not relieve Albany of the responsibility to establish uniform and enforceable statewide standards.

Mr. Cuomo is also calling for improvements in eyewitness identification. The goal is to make lineups and photographs of suspects less susceptible to the subjective judgment of the enforcement personnel involved.

Read the full editorial.

Read about how mandatory recording of interrogations can help prevent wrongful convictions based on false confessions.

Read about reforms to prevent eyewitness misidentification.