The Crime Report

AUGUST 17, 2021

Ken Baldwin, the District Attorney in Washington County, said separating witnesses and victims from the tension of courtroom proceedings was not only important as a way of minimizing stress, but was essential for the needs of justice as well. “You

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The Crime Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Young people are more likely to be caught, criminal justice experts say, and thus show up disproportionately in arrest numbers, such as in Washington D.C. where juvenile carjacking cases have tripled despite a 60 percent decrease in the number of juvenile cases in virtually every other category of violent crime.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 7, 2022

have gone below the government recommendation in 49 out of 74 sentencings held for Capitol riot defendants one year after the attack, or about two-thirds of the cases, reports the Washington Post. Federal judges in D.C.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

ABC News and the Washington Post additionally could find no causal relationship between police spending and crime rates in analyses of 1985 to 2020 and 1960 to 2018, respectively. Los Angeles County’s 2023 budget is slated to increase that budget by another $250 million.

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AUGUST 26, 2021

Nearly three dozen formerly incarcerated people presented business pitches in a competition through the city’s Aspire program, which offers help to entrepreneurial ex-offenders, the Washington Post reported. Other participants in last weekend’s Washington, D.C.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Porter highlighted B24-0416 , Washington D.C’s Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022 (RCCA) which positioned D.C Massachusetts and Washington state officials this year worked on guaranteeing ballot access for incarcerated voters. The report was written by Nicole D. Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy at the Sentencing Project.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2022

Facing rising rates of homicides, gun violence and carjackings, coupled with slower responses to critical emergency calls, as well as mounting overtime pay for officers amid the loss of about 280 officers over 18 months that has left the department with its lowest staffing levels in two decades, Washington D.C. mayor Muriel E.

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The Crime Report

JULY 25, 2022

In Washington, the police force cleared 49 percent of its murder cases through July, compared to 65 percent during the same period last year. Last year, the Metropolitan Police Department ended with a final 69 percent clearance rate, reports the Washington Times. The climb wasn’t unique to Washington.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Three states have already passed similar legislation, including Nebraska, Utah and Colorado. A similar measure failed earlier this year in California due to concerns about whether eliminating the exception would force the state to pay prisoners minimum wage.

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The Crime Report

JULY 16, 2021

Working with pro bono lawyers and filing a class action lawsuit against the government, Brown and Rolin recovered the money six months later, reports The Washington Post.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

As part of the Washington Post’s Tech Friend newsletter, reporter Shira Ovide has created a guide to how Google’s information on our activity is used by police. 16, Colorado’s Supreme Court upheld the legality of “keyword warrants” used as part of an investigation into a home arson that killed multiple people.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2022

More than 60 percent of shootings in King County, the largest county in Washington State, last year occurred outside the city. King County is dispatching what it calls peacekeepers to work with young people they have identified as prone to committing shootings, becoming shooting victims or both.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

2, reports the Washington Post. A third bomb threat in just over a month at Howard University marks a wave of threats that have targeted historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) this year, with at least eight HBCUs being threatened on Jan. 4, followed by four more on Feb.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 11, 2022

justice system and reduce mass incarceration, argues a Washington and Lee University law professor. Morefield Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law. But, he asserted, it would result in a criminal adjudication system that is more just, more democratic, and more faithful to the ideals of those who drafted the.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Sting operations, “choreographed by FBI and Justice Department officials in Washington,” have included plots against skyscrapers in Dallas, Texas, Washington subways, a Chicago nightclub and New York’s John F. law enforcement overstepped its role by effectively participating in developing terrorism plots.” .

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

A recent rejection from South Central Correctional Facility (SCCF) in Clifton, Tenn.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

The ruling has profound implications for the safety and conduct of up to 83 million people who live in New York and seven other states plus Washington DC, which have similar “proper cause” laws. The law had required anyone wanting to carry a handgun in public to prove that they had a “proper cause” to do so.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 6, 2022

A new analysis by the Federal Trade Commission has found that Americans lost more than $1 billion to cryptocurrency scams since the start of last year, accounting for a fourth of all dollars lost to fraud using any payment method and taking in more than 46,000 people from the beginning of 2021 through March, reports the Washington Post.

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APRIL 6, 2022

The FBI is doubling down on tracking social media posts, spending as much as $27 million to use Babel X, a software made by Babel Street that lets users search social media sites within a geographic area and use other parameters that privacy and civil liberties advocates say raise serious concerns, reports the Washington Post.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 21, 2022

A report by the American Academy of Pediatrics found that, by age 16, more than two in three children had said they had experienced a traumatic event.

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MAY 16, 2022

In a a recent paper published in the Washington University Law Review , Brandon Hasbrouck , an Assistant Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, writes that the role of prosecutors, as the most powerful actors in the U.S. The traditional adversarial approach undermines the U.S.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 17, 2021

New York, New Jersey, California, Michigan, Maryland, Virginia, Minnesota, and Washington state have increased security and police on campus and, in some cases, closed for the day.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 3, 2021

15 story in the Washington Post , which The Crime Report summarized on Nov. It might be easy for skeptics to question the technology, especially if they have never thoroughly read the research and had a demonstration — which was the case of the experts quoted in the Washington Post article. Photo courtesy EyeDetect/Converus.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 9, 2021

The arrest of hundreds of alleged criminals from around the globe in a massive international crackdown was made possible by an encrypted social messaging platform with custom cell phones covertly created by the FBI, according to ABC Australia and the Washington Post. . Crime-Fighting Evolution: ANØM’s Origins.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In addition to dispatching Election Day monitors, FBI special agents serving as election crime coordinators will be on duty in the bureau’s 56 field offices, in conjunction with attorneys at the agency’s National Security Division and U.S. attorneys’ offices, to counter any potential threats. to receive voting-related complaints from the public.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2022

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) used to gauge someone’s homelessness “vulnerability” — but has since been disowned by its co-creator after studies showed it disadvantaged minorities — is still being used in at least 39 states as well as the District of Columbia , reports the Washington Post.

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MARCH 8, 2022

A new working paper from researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School and the University of Pennsylvania has found that even though the number of crimes fell in 2020, the chance of being victimized if you were out on the street rose significantly, reports Megan McArdle in an op-ed for the Washington Post. “In

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APRIL 5, 2022

It reminds me of what happened in Washington, DC in the late 1980s and 1990s when a rush to use excess allocated funding to hire new recruits resulted in a significant lowering of standards to attract applicants. To some extent, this may be seen as shutting the gate after the horse has bolted.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

To that end, industry officials say more needs to be done to improve the flow of intelligence — just as Nakasone warns that attacks such as the recent SolarWinds hack are likely to continue by ransomware groups and others.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

As of August, Washington and 20 states allowed online sports betting, and the association said six states that legalized the practice have yet to launch legal wagering. . and other jurisdictions have stepped up online gambling enforcement, but the U.S hasn’t added more watchful eyes to the industry yet. . .

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 14, 2022

Washington , which asserted that the right to confront an accuser in person was near-to-absolute. The dissenters said the Constitution provided no wiggle room and that the point was “to place the witness under the sometimes hostile glare of the defendant,” and were in the majority 14 years later in Crawford v.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

And while cannabis is legal for recreational use in 19 states and Washington, D.C., While the average concentration of THC in cannabis samples seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration was about 4 percent in 1997, and 17 percent in 2017, today’s THC products can in some cases exceed 95 percent. and for medical use in 37 states and D.C.,

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The Crime Report

MARCH 18, 2022

A revamped police reform program, dubbed the Collaborative Reform Initiative, will invite local law enforcement agencies to voluntarily accept federal help in reducing officer-involved shootings and excessive-force incidents by implementing new policies and better training with a budget of $5 million, reports the Washington Post.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 24, 2021

New York City’s police department, the largest in the United States, will train all 35,000 of its officers in de-escalation techniques, using the Police Executive Research Forum’s Integrating Communications, Assessment and Tactics (ICAT) approach to reduce violent encounters and injuries to both officers and citizens, reports the Washington Post.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

Before I return home from Washington, I am determined to pass the Martha Wright Prison Phone Justice Act , which will end predatory prison and jail call rates. And before I arrived in Washington, I was a proud member of the Black Panther Party. photo by muckrock via Flickr.

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The Crime Report

JULY 12, 2021

Washington, D.C.’s In fact, body cams have not had statistically significant effects on most measures of officer and citizen behavior — or on citizens’ views of police, according to a 2019 study by George Mason University’s Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. In practice, also, body cams have generated concerns.

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The Crime Report

MAY 31, 2022

At least 15 mass shootings have taken place across the United States since May 24, from California to Arizona to Tennessee, with at least 12 taking place over the Memorial Day weekend alone, reports the Washington Post. At least eight people have been killed and 55 injured in the mass shootings over the holiday weekend.

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