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Police Release Crime Statistics
Police are attributing these decreases to “significant reductions in gang activity and the congregating of known gang members, particularly in priority neighbourhoods where police concentrate their efforts to use search powers under the Criminal Code
Updated: 11/03/2011 05:01P
Level 3 Sex Offender Moves to Bedford
Ohnmact was convicted of rape and sodomy against teenaged girls, among other offenses, in 2002, according to the New York State Department of Criminal Justice. He served eight years in jail and was released from prison this week.
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:57P
Ray Kelly Struggles With NYPD's Lack of Institutional Memory Amid Scandals
By Murray Weiss Murray Weiss is an award-winning investigative journalist, author, columnist and editor, and is considered an expert on government, law enforcement, criminal justice, organized crime and terrorism. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:51P
Justice Won't Probe Ex-SEC Official Becker, Lawyer Says
Kotz has come under fire inside and outside the SEC for his propensity for sending his investigations to criminal authorities and then having them refuse to bring cases. In reports to Congress, Kotz has said his office referred 28 cases to the Justice
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:48P
Working with Our Partners to Reduce Domestic Violence
Furthermore, this month, DHS is scheduled to release a resource guide for local law enforcement on U visas, which provide immigration protection to eligible victims of crime who are willing to assist with criminal investigations and prosecutions.
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:38P
Convictions vacated against 3 in 1991 Ill. slaying
University School of Law's Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth. "It's one of the most tragic injustices in this state's history. It's five kids who were wrongfully convicted ... while a true perpetrator went on and lived a criminal lifestyle.
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:36P
Convictions vacated against 3 men in 1991 murder of Ill. girl, 14; 'tragic
Chicago — Cook County prosecutors on Thursday vacated the convictions of three of five men serving prison time for the 1991 rape and murder of a 14-year-old suburban Chicago girl after DNA evidence linked another man to the crime.
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:32P
Crime Comedy 'Heist' Lacks Conviction
The movie's Madoff manqu is a shifty financier named Arthur Shaw (a perfectly unctuous Alan Alda), who occupies the penthouse of "The Tower"—a building that, in keeping with the film's fidelity to understatement, is actually the Trump International
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:31P
Lawyer: Charges will be tough against judge in beating video
His office will look at how the law has changed in the past couple of years, as there could have been different laws in effect at the time. However, a criminal defense lawyer said it was not likely that Adams could be prosecuted.
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:25P
NATO, Rebels Investigated by ICC for War Crimes in Libya
In August, international law expert Franklin Lamb accused NATO of committing a “massacre” of civilians after visiting a town decimated by air strikes. Citing international lawyers, US congressional staffers and human rights activists visiting the
Updated: 11/03/2011 04:24P
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