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.
READ MOREWhen 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.
READ MORENew 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.
READ MOREJuvenile 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.
READ MORENew 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. […]
READ MORESmile! 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.
READ MOREA Fifty-Year Fight For Exoneration In New York City
Fifty-years is a long time to wage a legal battle. It’s way too long when you’re the one fighting and you’ve been innocent the entire time.
READ MOREF-Bombs Litter The Courtroom And Elsewhere
A word which used to be limited to locker rooms and schoolyard spats is now getting national coverage thanks to a trio of offenders — including a New York City judge who was instructed to begin his retirement a month early.
READ MOREStrange And Unusual New York Criminal Laws & Statutes
New York may have more laws per capita than any other American nation. Not all of them make sense. Written decades ago with a valid purpose, the intent has gotten lost in the mists of time. Yet the laws remain on the books. Here are a few:
READ MOREAmerican Citizen Convicted in Suicide Attack
A failed suicide bombing in Afghanistan raises old arguments: should an American be tried in an American court of law for crimes committed while serving with the enemy, or should that person be killed in a drone strike. Execution without due process is the avenue American jurists are weighing.
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