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DC forms bias crime partnership with prosecutors
WTOP
WASHINGTON - District of Columbia officials are announcing a partnership between prosecutors, the mayor's office and the gay, lesbian and transgender community. The goal of the partnership, announced Saturday by Mayor Vincent Gray, is to seek stronger ...

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In Hampton: When open court goes behind closed doors
Daily Press
The disturbing pattern of Hampton judges and lawyers hashing out significant legal matters in the back room continues. The latest example came last week, when potential jurors might have seen Sir Lord Holmes, a defendant in a murder case, in handcuffs ...

Social media offers new crime fighting tools
The Newark Advocate
NEWARK — More than 6,500 users follow posts on a Facebook group called Licking County Scanner Heads that has a hyper-local focus on crime and EMS activity within the county and posts real-time items based on public safety radio traffic. The group ...

Harry Deitz: Addressing crime the business of all
Reading Eagle
Given where we are now with concerns about crime, the answers aren't as simple as family values and law enforcement. There are at least three other critical areas where groups must come together, form comprehensive plans and take action: business, ...

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1st District candidates weigh in on crime, city finances
Journal Times
RACINE — Racine's 1st Aldermanic District stretches south from the State Street Bridge to the end of the Gateway Technical College campus, and west from the lakefront along Festival Hall and Pershing Park to beyond City Hall. It includes the entirety ...

Seminar promotes community action to prevent crime
Aiken Standard
Safety is of paramount concern within one's own neighborhood, but it's up to those individuals who compose the residents of a community to take ownership and personal responsibility to help reduce the levels of violent crime, Mitchell said. However ...
Community and law enforcement come together to reduce crimeWRDW-TV

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Crime lab backlogs weighing down court system
Austin American-Statesman
A mounting backlog of samples awaiting testing at the Austin Police Department crime lab is causing unprecedented delays in the resolution of criminal cases, preventing some from going forward for at least six months and stressing an already bustling ...

Crime Watch: Woodbury County Jail arrest log
Sioux City Journal (blog)
Michelle Leann White, 26, of Sioux City, was arrested Wednesday by Woodbury County deputies on a felony charge of furnishing a controlled substance to an inmate. Nathan Richard Crosgrove, 18, of Sioux City, was arrested Thursday by Sioux City police on ...

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Senate bill requests funding for Western NC crime lab
Winston-Salem Journal
Western North Carolina is one step closer to receiving a regional crime lab to help alleviate the number of DWI cases being dismissed in court because of a lack of evidence. Understaffing and a severe backlog of alcohol blood test submissions in ...

KOMO News
South Seattle residents suffer as crime, gun violence spread
KOMO News
Each icon represents a crime ranging from purse snatchings to shootings - including the one last night in the parking lot of a Safeway store off Rainier Avenue. And now residents say they are sick and tired of it - and they're ready to take their ...

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DC forms bias crime partnership with prosecutors, LGBT community
WJLA
The goal of the partnership, announced Saturday by Mayor Vincent Gray, is to seek stronger punishments for people convicted in bias- or hate crimes. As part of the arrangement, the mayor's office of GLBT Affairs will solicit so-called impact statements ...
At vigil, transgender homicide victim's family urges hate-crime prosecutionWashington Post

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At vigil, transgender homicide victim's family urges hate-crime prosecution
Washington Post
One year after being killed in Northeast Washington, JaParker Jones is missed so much that the victim's younger sisters often sleep in Jones's bed to feel their sibling's presence. Jones's family said the pain of the loss is increased by the absence of ...
DC forms bias crime partnership with prosecutorsWTOP
DC officials announce hate crime partnership at vigilMyFox Washington DC

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Government ready to review sexual crime ordinance
Hindustan Times
After the Union cabinet approved an ordinance to effect changes in laws against sexual crimes, the government on Saturday said it was open to consultation and changes after women's groups urged the President not to sign it. "Justice (JS) Verma ...
Crime against women: Govt's ordinance is against all democratic norms, says ...Economic Times
Women activists urge president not to sign sexual crime ordinancegulfnews.com
BJP welcomes ordinance on crime against women, Left opposes itDaily Bhaskar
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APD to target Rundberg crime
Austin News
AUSTIN (KXAN) - Austin Police will be patrolling a targeted area in north Austin Saturday focusing on crimes involving narcotics, prostitution and gang-related offenses. Police will be out in what they describe as “100-percent force” for the “Restore ...

Don Miller: Crime hits home
Santa Cruz Sentinel
In my job, I frequently write unsigned -- and windy -- editorials, decrying injustice and the need for more tolerance, rehabilitation and even redemption. I write about the plight of addiction, about the need to end chronic recidivism among released ...

Crime History: NYC officer Serpico
Washington Examiner
On this day, Feb. 3, in 1971, New York City policeman Frank Serpico was shot during a routine heroin bust, which led to the exposure of widespread corruption in the police department. Before the shooting, Serpico had reported rampant corruption within ...

CBS News
Code of silence undermines Chicago's anti-crime efforts
CBS News
(CBS News) CHICAGO - Jesse Jackson is calling on President Obama to come to Chicago to confront the city's gun crisis. On Saturday, Jackson led marchers to the park where a 15-year-old girl was shot to death this week, a mile from the president's ...
Crime isn't down if murder is upChicago Sun-Times

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