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New Yorker (blog)
Weekend Reading: Internet Crime Sleuths, Celebrity Psychics, Eurovision's Hope
New Yorker (blog)
Another loose-cannon crime solver appears in Jon Ronson's 2007 piece in the Guardian on celebrity psychic Sylvia Browne, which resurfaced after the escape of the Cleveland kidnapping victims. When the piece first appeared, Browne had recently come ...

Despite crime rate, Santa Cruz County sends few to prison
Santa Cruz Sentinel
But what happens to those crimes in court is a surprising, and at times inscrutable, tale. Sources contacted for this story commonly cited two factors for why the county has low incarcerations rates: a criminal justice culture that often prefers ...

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Think gun crime is worse now? Not so.
U-T San Diego
SAN DIEGO — It is the subject of nightly television news reports, daily newspaper stories and prime time dramas. Gun violence is seemingly everywhere you turn. Ask Americans how bad they think gun crime is, and 82 percent will say it is either worse ...

Business Insider
A Killing in the Village Is Called a Hate Crime
New York Times
“There was a time in New York City when hate crimes were a common occurrence,” said Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker. “There was a time in New York City when two people of the same gender could not walk down the street arm-in-arm without ...
Police Call Fatal NYC Shooting a Hate...ABC News
New York Man Fatally Shot In Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime - Huffington PostHuffington Post
NYPD Say Fatal West Village Shooting A 'Hate Crime'Business Insider
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Business Insider
NYPD Say Fatal West Village Shooting A 'Hate Crime'
Business Insider
The New York Police Department say that the fatal shooting of a man in Manhattan's West Village early Saturday morning is being classified as a hate crime, NY1 reports. The shooting took place shortly after midnight at West 8th Street and 6th Avenue ...

Business Insider
New York Man Fatally Shot In Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
As NBC is reporting, local law enforcement officials are investigating the case as a hate crime after learning the suspect, who was arrested just blocks from the scene, allegedly hurled a series of anti-gay insults at the 32-year-old victim before ...
Police Call Fatal NYC Shooting a Hate...ABC News
NYPD Say Fatal West Village Shooting A 'Hate Crime'Business Insider
Gay Man Fatally Shot in Greenwich Village in Apparent Hate CrimeNew York Magazine
NBC New York -New York Times
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Gay Man Fatally Shot in Greenwich Village in Apparent Hate Crime
New York Magazine
New York City has capped off a month of hate crimes — which included the vandalizing of Jewish families' homes on Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Columbia University football player grabbing an Asian student and using ethnic slurs against him, and the ...

NBC New York
Police Call Fatal NYC Shooting a Hate...
ABC News
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Saturday that the shooting, which occurred just after midnight, appears to have been a hate crime. Kelly says the gunman was seen urinating on the street outside a bar. He says the man went into the bar, made ...
Man Fatally Shot in Head in Greenwich Village Possible Hate Crime: SourcesNBC New York
Man Killed In Greenwich Village Hate CrimeTowleroad
Police call fatal New York City shooting an anti-gay hate crimeLGBTQ Nation
NY1 -Instinct Magazine (blog)
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Neighbors frustrated with rising crime in Portland's Industrial District
kgw.com
PORTLAND – There are major concerns about crime in Southeast Portland's industrial district. The police bureau said its hands are tied and that's not sitting well with business owners. Jim Clark owns a company in the area, and he's tired of the crime ...

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President Maduro Sends Venezuela's Military To Fight Crime In Violence Torn ...
Fox News Latino
He's clean, and a hand gesture from the commanding officer sends him off into the maze of ramshackle homes that is Petare, one of the most dangerous parts of Venezuela's notoriously crime-infested capital. This scene is playing out day and night at ...

NBC New York
Fatal Greenwich Village Shooting Being Probed as Hate Crime: Official
NBC New York
The fatal overnight shooting of a 32-year-old man in Greenwich Village is being investigated as a possible hate crime, and a suspect is in custody in connection with the attack, law enforcement sources tell NBC 4 New York. Law enforcement sources say ...
Police Investigate Fatal West Village Shooting As Hate CrimeNY1

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Police say realignment may be one cause of crime spike
abc7news.com
In the Bay Area, there's one property crime is committed every four minutes. Cellphone robberies are becoming an epidemic. Even on Muni. Auto thefts have skyrocketed. This security camera video may be old, but police say the MO is still the same and ...

Seattle Police to roll out crime forecasting program
Q13 FOX
predictive police SEATTLE — Seattle Police plan to roll out its newest crime-fighting tool, a computer program that predicts where crimes take place. The so-called Predictive Policing program kicked off two months ago in the East and Southeast ...
Seattle police to expand crime forecasting projectThe Seattle Times (blog)

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Navajos weigh tougher crime sentences - AZCentral.com
azcentral.com
That would change under a proposal by tribal officials to stiffen penalties for numerous crimes. Public hearings were held across the reservation this week. The proposal comes more than a decade after the tribe eliminated or reduced penalties for ...

DE man charged in Hatteras sex crime
WAVY-TV
Chief Deputy Steve Hoggard with the Dare County Sheriff's Office said deputies recieved a note from police Thursday in Deleware about a sex crime involving a child. Deleware police said the crime occurred on Hatteras Island. After an investigation ...

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KOMO News
Amid crime wave, North Bend mulls public surveillance cameras
KOMO News
North Bend's mayor, city administrator and police chief introduced the idea of surveillance cameras to many residents at an emergency crime meeting Thursday night. City councilors are also kicking around the idea of installing them in public places ...

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Bleacher Report
Nate Diaz Fine and Suspension: Did the Punishment Fit the Crime?
Bleacher Report
The question now is, did the punishment fit the crime? Let's get the suspension out of the way first because that's an easy one to tackle. A 90-day suspension for a fighter that last stepped into the Octagon on April 20 and received a 60-day medical ...
Pat Healy's punishment doesn't fit crimeMMA Fighting

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Seattle police to expand crime forecasting project
The Seattle Times (blog)
Under the program, computer models similar to those that predict earthquake aftershocks analyze Seattle crime data dating to 2008 to forecast times and locations where crime is likely to occur in an area as small as 500-by-500 feet. In February, McGinn ...

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Detectives Use “Art” To Solve Crime In Philadelphia
CBS Local
These police detectives and crime scene investigators from all over the city are training their eyes, using art. “Their communication skills have to be better than great. They have to be precise,” said Amy Herman, President of The Art of Perception ...

Queens Man Sentenced To Decades Behind Bars For 1-Hour Crime Spree
CBS Local
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Carrying out a one-hour crime spree has turned into 40 years to life in prison for a Queens man, prosecutors announced Friday. As WCBS 880′s Irene Cornell reported, Darius Lowery, 25, started his crime spree one early ...