Just What Is An Ar15?
Another mass shooting, this one in Florida, and pundits are throwing around words like ‘assault rifle’ not even knowing what they’re talking about. It will be impossible for a person, or a group, to produce meaningful gun legislation if they can’t even get the terms right.
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New York City Law Refuses To Honor 1500 Ice Requests
In a bid to reduce undocumented aliens Immigration and Customs Enforcement stepped up enforcement of capture and detain and deport. One city, New York, is not having anything to do with it.
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Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree Often Used To Trigger Local Arrests
Local arrests are not always locally affected. Often the so-called evidence has been provided to state and local authorities through the illicit complicity between the National Security Agency (NSA) and various branches of the federal government.
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Racial Profiling In New York City
Despite repeated attempts to rein in the bigoted practice, racial profiling still exists within the NYPD.
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When The Sexual Predator Is A Cop
The issue of law enforcement officers sexually assaulting inmates and detainees isn’t new. What’s also not new is the tendency of cities, municipalities, and governments to look the other way. Some studies show the problem is widespread.
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New York Crime Lessens Above Ground But The Subway Makes Up For It
While New York City’s streets are safer today, crime is spiking along the underground.
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Juvenile Justice Can Be Confusing
Two recent events in New York metro’s legal arena highlight the confusing world of juvenile justice. In one incident a 40-something year old man is tried as a youth while in the other juveniles will no longer be sent to adult prisons in The Big Apple.
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New York State Tightens Hate Crime Laws Following Charlottesville
“What are these illegal immigrants doing here? I hate immigrant people,” yelled David Caputo according to prosecutors. The diminutive man had a machete when he threatened to kill and man on a Sunset Park street in June. On December 6, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Danny Chun refused prosecutors’ request to boost Caputo’s bail to $10,000. […]
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Smile! You’re Being Surveilled By New York’s Finest
New Yorkers see them strapped to the back of patrol cars, mounted on toll booths and hanging on metal posts along the highway. “They” are automatic license plate readers and have become the spark of an ongoing debate in the balance between crime fighting and privacy invasion.
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Building Super Blinds Tenant In Hate Crime And Keeps Job
Hate crimes are on the rise and some New York City officials blame the increase on Trump.
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