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 […]
READ MORERussian Hacker Gets a Ticket to Prison for Hacking StubHub
The leader in a global ticket-scam group was sent to prison Wednesday for four to twelve years. Prosecutors said he could have used his “high aptitude” for something other than misconduct. Vadim Polyakov managed a group which was able to enter over 1,000 StubHub accounts. Next, along with cohorts, they would use the seized information […]
READ MORENew York City Subway Sexual Assaults Down — Or Are They?
Complaints of sexual offense on the New York City subway system have risen over 50 percent compared to the same time last year. The report, released June 20, 2016, includes violations such as unwanted touching, public lewdness, and unlawful surveillance: taking inappropriate video or images. “Few males know this crime happens,” said Joseph Fox, transit […]
READ MORECrooked Cop goes to prison
Atlanta cop sentenced to 4½ years in prison Associated Press ATLANTA (AP) — A city police officer was sentenced Thursday to 4½ years in prison for lying to investigators about a botched drug raid that ended in the shooting death of a 92-year-old woman. Arthur Tesler, 42, was the only officer to face trial in […]
READ MOREEgelko on Kelly and the SB420 Debate: The Legal Haiku of Thresholds and Ceilings
This morning Bob Egelko has a pretty good writeup in the SF Chronicle about the grant of review in People v. Kelly, the medical marijuana quantity limits case, and also about the way the medical marijuana community has been split over whether the quantity limits established by SB420/the Medical Marijuana Program are a good or […]
READ MOREProhibition Should Have Taught America That Morality Can’t Be Legislated
The ink was barely dry before American history took a change. Before the day was over, to people would be killed, lives upturned and persons would go to prison for something that was legal 24-hours before. Prohibition in America was a nationwide attempt to legislate morality through banning anything to do with alcoholic beverages. Production, […]
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