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NYC Gay Man's Death a Hate Crime
Daily Beast
A gay man was killed early Saturday in New York City's Greenwich Village—the heart of gay community and just blocks away from the historic Stonewall Inn—in what police are calling a hate crime. Brooklyn resident Mark Carson, 32, was walking on West ...

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Hampton Circuit Court gets new system for accepting marriage applications
Daily Press
When Hampton's clerk of circuit court, Linda Batchelor Smith, was at a clerk's conference last summer, she learned about a new system for accepting marriage license applications. A clerk from another jurisdiction "was just praising the system" to the ...

Crime Punishment Discrepancy Depends on County Line
NBC Bay Area
That could depend on where you committed the crime. For a man we'll identify as “Mark,” it was the difference of just hundreds of feet. He was caught by security personnel at the Macy's store at the Stanford Shopping Center when he was 19 years old, ...

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How crimes are categorized can have a major impact on a city's crime rate
NOLA.com
A group of state and academic researchers who studied crime reporting in 12 West Virginia jurisdictions in 2001 found an estimated 26 percent under-counting of aggravated assaults and a 7 percent inflating of simple assaults - the latter partly ...

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New Orleans and Orlando crime rates: a Department of Justice comparison
NOLA.com
The report concludes the major crime problem in New Orleans is murder, with the city suffering from a homicide rate 10 times the national average. Other crime in the city is "serious," the authors write, but "it is not crime in general, property crime ...

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Crime experts question NOPD stats that paint New Orleans as a safe city with a ...
NOLA.com
It's a point the mayor makes in interviews with national media outlets -- "You have to understand the difference between the crime rate and the murder rate," he recently told the Atlantic -- and it also allows New Orleans to avoid landing on ...

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Police: Fatal NYC shooting an anti-gay hate crime - USA Today
USA TODAY
New York's police commissioner called the killing a hate crime. Before opening fire early Saturday, the gunman confronted the victim and his companion in Greenwich Village and asked if they "want to die here," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said.
In Shadow of the Stonewall Inn, a Gay Man Is KilledNew York Times
Deadly Greenwich Village shooting possible 'hate crime,' police sayNBCNews.com
Police Call Fatal NYC Shooting a Hate CrimeABC News
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Safe in Memphis: Crime and context in the news
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Do you feel safe walking alone at night in the city or area where you live? That's a question Gallup pollsters ask at least 1,000 randomly called, statistically weighted adult Americans every day. It's one of many questions the nation's pulse-takers ...

Police Call Fatal NYC Shooting A Hate Crime
NPR
NEW YORK (AP) — A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate crime. Before opening ...

Crime reporting to go digital in Glendale
Glendale News Press
Reporting a crime in Glendale could soon be just as easy as the press of a button. Possibly as soon as this summer, residents who want to report vandalism, lost property and identity, petty and grand theft and bicycle thefts to Glendale police can do ...

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New Yorker (blog)
Weekend Reading: Internet Crime Sleuths, Celebrity Psychics, Eurovision's Hope
New Yorker (blog)
Another loose-cannon crime solver appears in Jon Ronson's 2007 piece in the Guardian on celebrity psychic Sylvia Browne, which resurfaced after the escape of the Cleveland kidnapping victims. When the piece first appeared, Browne had recently come ...

Despite crime rate, Santa Cruz County sends few to prison
Santa Cruz Sentinel
But what happens to those crimes in court is a surprising, and at times inscrutable, tale. Sources contacted for this story commonly cited two factors for why the county has low incarcerations rates: a criminal justice culture that often prefers ...

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Think gun crime is worse now? Not so.
U-T San Diego
SAN DIEGO — It is the subject of nightly television news reports, daily newspaper stories and prime time dramas. Gun violence is seemingly everywhere you turn. Ask Americans how bad they think gun crime is, and 82 percent will say it is either worse ...

Business Insider
A Killing in the Village Is Called a Hate Crime
New York Times
“There was a time in New York City when hate crimes were a common occurrence,” said Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker. “There was a time in New York City when two people of the same gender could not walk down the street arm-in-arm without ...
Police Call Fatal NYC Shooting a Hate...ABC News
New York Man Fatally Shot In Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime - Huffington PostHuffington Post
NYPD Say Fatal West Village Shooting A 'Hate Crime'Business Insider
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Business Insider
NYPD Say Fatal West Village Shooting A 'Hate Crime'
Business Insider
The New York Police Department say that the fatal shooting of a man in Manhattan's West Village early Saturday morning is being classified as a hate crime, NY1 reports. The shooting took place shortly after midnight at West 8th Street and 6th Avenue ...

Business Insider
New York Man Fatally Shot In Alleged Anti-Gay Hate Crime - Huffington Post
Huffington Post
As NBC is reporting, local law enforcement officials are investigating the case as a hate crime after learning the suspect, who was arrested just blocks from the scene, allegedly hurled a series of anti-gay insults at the 32-year-old victim before ...
Police Call Fatal NYC Shooting a Hate...ABC News
NYPD Say Fatal West Village Shooting A 'Hate Crime'Business Insider
Gay Man Fatally Shot in Greenwich Village in Apparent Hate CrimeNew York Magazine
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Gay Man Fatally Shot in Greenwich Village in Apparent Hate Crime
New York Magazine
New York City has capped off a month of hate crimes — which included the vandalizing of Jewish families' homes on Holocaust Remembrance Day, a Columbia University football player grabbing an Asian student and using ethnic slurs against him, and the ...

NBC New York
Police Call Fatal NYC Shooting a Hate...
ABC News
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Saturday that the shooting, which occurred just after midnight, appears to have been a hate crime. Kelly says the gunman was seen urinating on the street outside a bar. He says the man went into the bar, made ...
Man Fatally Shot in Head in Greenwich Village Possible Hate Crime: SourcesNBC New York
Man Killed In Greenwich Village Hate CrimeTowleroad
Police call fatal New York City shooting an anti-gay hate crimeLGBTQ Nation
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Neighbors frustrated with rising crime in Portland's Industrial District
kgw.com
PORTLAND – There are major concerns about crime in Southeast Portland's industrial district. The police bureau said its hands are tied and that's not sitting well with business owners. Jim Clark owns a company in the area, and he's tired of the crime ...

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President Maduro Sends Venezuela's Military To Fight Crime In Violence Torn ...
Fox News Latino
He's clean, and a hand gesture from the commanding officer sends him off into the maze of ramshackle homes that is Petare, one of the most dangerous parts of Venezuela's notoriously crime-infested capital. This scene is playing out day and night at ...