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Cannes crime spree! Billy Crystal tries TV. Sen. McCain makes case.
Los Angeles Times
Crime appears to be on the rise at the prestigious event. Besides thieves stealing $1 million in jewels, there are also more stories of street crime as well. The Los Angeles Times on what's going on in between all the screenings and parties at Cannes ...

Dick Irwin, Veteran Md. Crime Reporter, Dies At 76
CBS Local
BALTIMORE (AP) — John Richard “Dick” Irwin, a retired newspaper reporter who chronicled crime in Baltimore for more than 40 years, has died. He was 76. The Baltimore Sun reports that Irwin died Wednesday at Greater Baltimore Medical Center of ...

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Cell phones
The Economist (blog)
MOST of the roughly 2.2m incarcerated Americans will eventually be freed. Those who remain in contact with loved ones on the outside are less likely, studies show, to return to a life of crime after serving their time. Much as voters hate criminals ...

Cash-for-phone ATMs may fuel violent crime, top cop says
Today.com
Video: New machines popping up in malls across the country enable you to trade in a used cellphone for cash. Some law enforcement officials say the ATMs are making it easier than ever for criminals to profit off your stolen phone. NBC's Jeff Rossen ...

Book Excerpt: Scarfo's nephew rats on crime family and kin
Philly.com
The first time he faced any kind of adversity, he turned on his family. And I don't mean crime family; he turned on his own uncle, his mother's brother, the man who had raised him after his father left. As far as I was concerned, the government made a ...

Prevent crime by giving children the right start
STLtoday.com
There is a growing consensus among law enforcement that we need to be doing much more on the front end to prevent crime on the back end. That's why my office has created a Children's Justice Division to focus our efforts on truancy, child support, ...

Press Herald
Authorities: Old Orchard councilor commited no crime
Press Herald
OLD ORCHARD BEACH – Police and the Attorney General's Office said Wednesday that they found no evidence that a town councilor committed a crime in an incident in which she allegedly used a racial slur against an African-American man who was ...

High-tech crime fighting tool now defunct
WWL
Since we've been in command, we have made significant upgrades in NOPD's use of technology including the use of Omega Crime View for reporting and mapping, implementation of Lexipol Systems to manage policy development, accountability and ...

abc7news.com
Millions meant for California crime victims goes unpaid
abc7news.com
The state admits up to half the time, victims of crime don't get their money -- money the state has actually collected from inmates -- because of a glitch in the system. County courts and district attorneys are failing to forward contact information ...

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Anti-gay crime up in New York as city prepares for pride events
CNN International
New York (CNN) -- Police in New York are stepping up their presence in neighborhoods with large gay and lesbian communities after a string of recent attacks on residents based on their sexual orientation. "Hate crimes are down this year, almost 30 ...
Suspect in vicious Manhattan anti-gay hate crime surrenders following West ...New York Daily News
Prominent Gay Journalist Explains Why Hate Crime Laws Aren't HelpingBusiness Insider
Conservatives Reticent To Condemn Anti-Gay Hate CrimeThinkProgress
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Ryan Gosling's 'Only God Forgives': Critics really, really hate the crime drama
Yahoo! Movies (blog)
Winding Refn, the enfant terrible of Danish film, previously teamed with Gosling on "Drive," earning a Best Director award at Cannes in 2011 for his hallucinatory crime story. Once again, the screen pulsates with all manner of blood-letting - from ...
Ryan Gosling's violent new crime movie booed at CannesAstro Awani

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FBI called into hate crime targeting whites
WND.com
Once Baton Rouge police started looking into the case, they asked the FBI about possible hate crime charges. Authorities allege 41-year-old Donald Ray Dickerson is responsible for initiating the attack. However, New Orleans criminal defense attorney ...

New Orleans crime report: Algiers couple robbed of wedding rings in front yard
NOLA.com
New Orleans crime report: Algiers couple robbed of wedding rings in front yard. Bridal Jewlery Algiers Robbery.jpg. New Orleans police said that an Algiers couple was robbed of $50,000 in bridal jewelry in front of their home Wednesday night. (New ...

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New Orleans Inspector General says he already is looking into NOPD crime stats
NOLA.com
J.P. Morrell, D-New Orleans, filed a resolution Monday that calls for a state audit of the NOPD crime figures, in response to a NOLA.com | Times-Picayune story Sunday in which criminologists cast suspicion on relatively low violent crime figures for ...
State auditor to look at New Orleans crime statsWWL

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Why Legalization Wouldn't End Crime
New York Times
Beau Kilmer is the co-director of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center and co-author of “Marijuana Legalization: What Everyone Needs to Know.” He is also on the team helping the Washington State Liquor Control Board estimate the size of Washington's ...

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Hollywood Reporter
Cannes: Foursome Team Up for Chicago Crime Boss Film 'Hubris'
Hollywood Reporter
Hubris follows a crew of thieves led by John Mendell who rob a pawn shop and discover it is a front for the most brutal crime boss in Chicago history, Tony Accardo.. CG Cinema and Orange Studios are financing. The film, which marks the first time ...

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Milpitas crime rates on the rise
Milpitas Post
Milpitas Police Chief Steve Pangelinan told city leaders this week that crime levels are rising in the city up 3 percent in 2012 versus the prior year. While the increase in law-breaking is of concern to the city's police chief, he noted overall crime ...

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SEPTA police chief using Twitter to fight crime
6abc.com
... of SEPTA's Transit Police is using Twitter to get the word out when a criminal strikes on the Broad Street Line. Many of the crimes are what has become known as "Apple picking," when thieves grab smart phones out of the hands of unsuspecting owners.

Bill would suppress Sandy Hook crime scene photos
Ct Post
"No one has been a stronger advocate of Connecticut's Freedom of Information Act than I have, but on behalf of the Sandy Hook families, and because this was an unprecedented tragedy, I support a one-time exception, so that graphic evidence and the ...

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Prominent Gay Journalist Explains Why Hate Crime Laws Aren't Helping
Business Insider
New York's hate crime statute says Morales has to get at least a 20-year sentence if convicted. In light of the brutality of the crime, Kim points out, a judge probably would have handed down a sentence of at least 20 years without the hate crime law.

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