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Neighbors want to follow group's blueprint to solve crime
WISH
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - Residents in Fletcher- Lippencott neighborhood are turning to outside community groups to curb crime in their area. Burglars are accused of increasing the crime rate in the eastside neighborhood. Residents recently formed a ...

Alabama state auditors may be washed away in tide of corruption
al.com (blog)
He may be too small for the job, but still he holds back a wave of corruption. By poking, and poking and poking. At practices, and procedures, and of course politicians. And there, of course, is the rub. A bill now under consideration in Montgomery ...

By Andrea Strong, TakePart Anyone familiar with the U.S. criminal justice system has likely heard the expression, “When a person gets sentenced to prison, the... Eleanor Goldberg http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eleanor-goldberg/

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More riot than revelry? Galveston Mardi Gras turns chaotic as police break out ...
CultureMap Houston
While area police downplay the affair, cell phone footage from the evening portrays a mob scene that Galveston crime blog The Police News calls a full-blown riot. Videos, like the one above, show scores of partiers stacking metal barricades and ...
Riot erupts at Mardi Gras GalvestonCW39 NewsFix

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Renegade ex-cop facing murder, attempted murder charges
KEYT
As the manhunt for the renegade ex-cop accused of killing three people in a revenge plot targeting the Los Angeles Police Department enters its second week, the big question facing authorities is: Where is Christopher Jordan Dorner?
Dorner charged with capital murder by Riverside County prosecutors; $1 million ...Valley News
LAPD announces $1 million dollar reward for murder suspectThe Daily Titan
Search for ex-cop murder suspect Christopher Dorner in Big Bear scaled down ...Santa Cruz Sentinel
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My thoughts when I heard Ratzinger was resigning? First, yet another hypocrisy from the church in flouting supposedly divine law for convenience, and second, the more than 10,000 children known to have been violated by Catholic priests. Jeff Schweitzer http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-schweitzer/

Speaking publicly for the first time since the death of her husband, Sue Paterno sat down with Katie Couric for an interview that aired on... Chris Greenberg http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-greenberg/

A 12-year-old Twin Peaks Middle School student in Poway, Calif. was taken into custody Saturday after a school administrator received an email threatening a mass... Sara Gates http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sara-gates/

Dorner manhunt: Riverside DA files murder charges against ex-cop
Los Angeles Times
The Riverside County district attorney's office filed murder and attempted murder charges Monday against fugitive ex-police officer Christopher Dorner, who is accused of shooting three police officers, one fatally, in Riverside County. Dist. Atty. Paul ...

Today Lower Merion Township Police Officer Sean Quinn is believed to have taken his own life in Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, South Philadelphia Pennsylvania. It is being reported that he left the family home last night after an argument with a family member, had contacted family this morning, didn't report to work, and earlier today was found in his vehicle with what is believed to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

"The Lower Merion Police Department wishes to express its heartfelt condolences to Officer Quinn's family and friends and asks that they be kept in your thoughts and prayers as we all try to come to terms with this tragic event."
~ Lower Merion Police Superintendant Michael McGrath.
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — The lawyer brought in by Penn State to help settle Jerry Sandusky-related claims said Monday that he recently gave university officials monetary... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-mcguinness/

SAN DIEGO — U.S. border inspectors are warning of unusually heavy traffic at California border crossings into Mexico amid the search for a fugitive ex-police... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-hoffer/

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Sheriff Joe Arpaio to release report on bungled investigations on sex-crime cases
ABC15.com (KNXV-TV)
PHOENIX - The sheriff for metropolitan Phoenix is scheduled to release a report Monday on an internal probe into why hundreds of sex-crime cases were either inadequately investigated or not looked into at all during a three-year period ending in 2007.

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Is Lead Poisoning Behind Some Juvenile Crime?
Science Daily (press release)
Is Lead Poisoning Behind Some Juvenile Crime? Feb. 11, 2013 — Lead is a common element but is found in old paints (including those once used on children's toys), soil, old piping, water, and the atmosphere from lead-containing vehicular fuels, even ...

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CORSICANA, Texas — A 58-year-old Texas man walked free Monday after serving years for a crime he didn't commit – the repeated stabbing of a... AP http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hilary-hanson/

Our under-funded mental health system is broken and many who require care are unable to receive it in a timely or affordable manner. As we confront the reality of these deficits, however, we ought not to do so under the illusion that we are responding to the problem of gun violence. Gordon Livingston, M.D. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-gordon-livingston/

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Riot erupts at Mardi Gras Galveston
CW39 NewsFix
GALVESTON, TX – Call it Mardi Gross! Galveston looked more like a war-zone than a party late Saturday. After the festivities ended, people refused to leave. They crowded the street along the Strand, and started throwing barrels and barricades.
More riot than revelry? Galveston Mardi Gras turns chaotic as police break out ...CultureMap Houston

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Stats show city's crime rate continues to drop
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer
Police Chief Ricky Boren credits the increase in police working the streets with the drop in seven so-called “Part One crimes” that are recorded in the FBI's Uniform Crime Report. They are homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny ...

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Dorner charged with murder, attempted murder of cops
USA TODAY
California authorities filed formal charges Monday against former Los Angeles police officer Charles Dorner for the murder of a police officer and the attempted murder of three other officers. Dorner was charged with first-degree murder in the ambush ...
Riverside County DA charges fugitive ex-cop with murder charges that could ...Washington Post

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Dale Cregan trial: Gun murder spree 'sparked when one of victims spurned ...
Mirror.co.uk
The first spark in a pub row that led to four gun murders was a spurned advance by a drunken woman to one of the victims, a court was told today. The bust-up led to the shootings of Mark Short, 23, his father David, 46, then the killings of policewomen ...
Manchester Police murder trial: Mother tells how gunman shot dead her son and ...Scottish Daily Record

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