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.
READ MOREInternational Phishing Con Catches New York Trainer
What makes an upscale, personal training living the good life in New York fall for a phishing scheme which lands her in jail? G.R.E.E.D. “You can only cheat a greedy person,” said Mark Twain. Shannon Pettinger appears to be living proof. Pettinger’s greed led her to be linked with an international phishing scam that netted her “bosses” $100 million dollars and left Pettinger facing years in prison.
READ MORENew York Police Release Body Camera Footage of Bronx Shooting
The New York Police Department has released body camera footage related to the standoff between the police and Miguel Richards, a 31 year old exchange student from Jamaica. The police repeatedly asked Richards what he had in his hand and even warned him that they would shoot him. He did not respond to any of the verbal commands made by the officers. The officers, believing that he had a gun, fired a hail of 16 bullets.
READ MOREWill The Most Hated Man In America Be “Loved” In Prison
Fun and games for Martin Shkreli are over. It’s impossible to say what may happen to Shkreli but everyone knows it won’t be fun. The smug 34-year-old who jacked-up AIDS medicine, stole from investors and called Washington DC lawmakers “imbeciles” will be spending his days sharing his new residence with vermin, limited computer access, and […]
READ MORENew York Residents Get Warrants Dismissed
Arrested decades ago in New York and failed to show up in court? Breathe easier. Your warrant may be just one of hundreds of thousands being dismissed as Manhattan’s District Attorney reviews old cases and gives (some) people the chance at a do-over.
READ MORENew York Implements Man Up! To Drive Down Violence
New York City has always had a reputation for crime. Occasionally the reputation was better than reality, but too often the reputation failed to live up to real life. Regardless, a new program, modeled after one in Chicago, is demonstrably reducing violent crime as it intervenes in young adults.
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