The New York Legislature has just passed the Raise the Age initiative. For decades, the issue was contentious and divisive. This act now provides significant protection to juvenile defendants. The key feature of this initiative is how the state will deal with 16 and 17-year-old defendants. Rather than send them to adult prisons they will […]
READ MORENew York Mayor Changes Course on Riker’s Island’s Future
Imagine living in a county jail so big it’s the largest penal colony on earth. Remember, it holds between twenty and thirty thousand people on any given day. Imagine you are in an environment where the guards — correctional officers — bring drugs in by the duffle bag full and weapons are available from the […]
READ MOREOnline Privacy: “Ain’t What She Used to Be”
Jane Park of New York City won big in the EuroMillions, Britain’s national lottery. Hours later, she was the quarry of blackmailers. When she shared the new but refused to share the money, someone hacked her Snapchat account and posted a personal, and revealing, image of Park, 21. The posters demanded cash to return control […]
READ MOREFormer Riker’s Island Guard Pleads Guilty to Murder in Inmate’s Death
Byron Taylor, 32 has pleaded guilty to helping in a cover-up regarding the fatal beating of an inmate, Ronald Spear. Prosecutors accused Taylor of helping in holding down Spears while another corrections officer repeatedly booted Spears in the head. Spears died a little while later. Taylor, formerly listed to be tried in October, told the […]
READ MOREReporting of Crime to the Police
The requirement is enshrined in the Prevention and Combating of Corrupt Activities Act, 2004 Chapter 7, Section 34 of which states, inter alia, that any person who holds a position of authority and who knows or ought to have reasonably known or suspected that another person has committed the offence against Chapter 2 of the […]
READ MORECrime Rates Drop in New York City: Who is Really Responsible
In Trump’s speech on August 16, he spoke to America’s inner cities and black neighborhoods. He credited former mayor Rudolph Giuliani with the drop in crime and homicides. Trump exaggerated the numbers by cherry-picking the period covered. Nor did Trump’s campaign team present any evidence whereby Giuliani’s particular policies influenced the rates. Maybe it is […]
READ MOREMuslims Murdered in Apparent Hate Crime in New York
Monday afternoon, New York police arrested Oscar Morel, 35, for murder in connection with the daytime shooting deaths of an imam and his companion as they strolled from a New York City mosque. Morel was charged with two counts of murder and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon. Law enforcement wasn’t sure if […]
READ MORECriminals Aren’t the Smartest to Begin With; These Examples Prove It
Criminals seem to forever find new and strange ways to break the law. Some are laughable and others cringe-worthy. Some of the weirdest things were chronicled in the New York Daily News Swiss Cheese Guy Christopher Pagano dubbed the “Swiss Cheese Pervert” approached several females asking for some “holey” sexual healing before the cops stopped […]
READ MORERuben Pizzaro, Number One Enemy, Captured in New York
Bronx’s “Number One Enemy” has been captured. Ruben (Chullo) Pizzano, 23, was caught after a tipster led law enforcement to Pizzaro was wanted in the shooting death of David Rivera, 24, in November. The murder was caught on camera. INSERT VIDEO HERE: https://youtu.be/wRfzCIXVtKE Pizzaro and Rivera fought outside a Crotona Avenue day care center. The […]
READ MOREA Freakish Shot and Two Families Torn Apart
The shot could not be duplicated even by the best marksman in the state. Fired from the parking lot of a small, cramped neighborhood grocery, the bullet traveled over 300 feet — longer than a football field, split a narrow gap between two apartment buildings and ricocheted off a metal door frame before striking a […]
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