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Maywood man charged with murder in South Shore stabbing
Chicago Tribune
Police say a Maywood man stabbed a 32-year-old man to death Saturday night in the South Shore neighborhood. Reginald Duckworth is charged with first degree murder. Duckworth, of the 1700 block of West Madison in Maywood, is accused of stabbing ...

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Violent crime in Springfield rose in 2012
KY3
Aggravated assault was just one area in which crimes against people saw an increase in 2012 compared to 2011. Homicides jumped by more than 200-percent, the instances of rape went up by 28-percent, and there was a 23-percent increase in robberies.

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Bloomberg
Oakland Crime Shows City Losing in California Rebound
Bloomberg
The city of about 396,000 has hired former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to boost crime-fighting in a community where census data show 1-in-5 residents live in poverty, while 8 percent of owner-occupied homes are valued at $1 million ...
A look at Bill Bratton's crime rate track recordKGO-TV
Is William Bratton Getting Too Much Credit for the Crime Reductions He Oversaw?SF Weekly (blog)

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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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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.