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Layoffs deter law enforcement
Violence has increased across the city this year, although criminal justice experts caution against pinning the jump on the layoffs. On Friday afternoon, gunfire erupted in the city's Fairview section, injuring one man and drawing concerned residents
Updated: 11/27/2011 03:13A
Peirce: Senate Republicans' filibuster of a justice study
There's no sane way to say that America's criminal justice system is "OK." It costs over $100 billion a year; it imprisons hundreds of thousands for minor drug possession or sale; overall it's incarcerating 2.3 million men and woman
Updated: 11/27/2011 03:10A
Fatal flaws in hate speech law
In addition to human rights hate speech laws it's also a criminal offence to publicly communicate hate speech. I support criminal law making it illegal to incite violence, but I question why communicating hateful speech in itself should be a criminal
Updated: 11/27/2011 02:50A
Kansas Equality Coalition seeks repeal of homosexual sex law
Advocates are now seeking to repeal a Kansas law which classifies homosexual sex is a criminal offense. By Scott Rothschild Topeka — When Gov. Sam Brownback last year issued his first executive order, which created the Office of the Repealer,
Updated: 11/27/2011 01:07A
Apply law equally
IRRESPECTIVE of whether the MPs (thugs) stage a sit-in at the Erada Square or in front of the building of the Criminal Investigation Department or the Palace of Justice, they cannot change the fact that the law has to be applied on everyone without
Updated: 11/27/2011 01:05A
Honour Rome Statute on ICC, lawyer advises
The country signed the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Law Court (ICC) and the Agreement on Privileges and Immunity of the Court (APIC). A facilitator and law expert of the ICC, Mr Robert Busumabu, said recently that Tanzania should have
Updated: 11/27/2011 01:03A
U. S. Attorney's Office Collects Over $13.5 Million in Civil & Criminal
It is a priority of the Department of Justice that victims be repaid their losses from all sources available, including forfeited assets. Collection of restitution on behalf of victims remains a top priority for the Western District .
Updated: 11/27/2011 12:30A
Bluffton gets four police officer recruits
With the recruits, “We have four very qualified candidates that have strong education backgrounds. We also have a good mixture of experience,” said Norberg. “It's the different talents that they bring to the group as an organization that we like.
Updated: 11/27/2011 12:28A
Nervous DAs block vital study
A better explanation is that state and local prosecutors, their scope and powers expanded dramatically in the "war on drugs"/"law-and-order" political setting of recent decades, just don't want the light of objective inquiry thrown on their powers and
Updated: 11/27/2011 12:25A
Questions remain about criminal history disclosure law
While it isn't common, people with criminal records sometimes can be hired by schools, depending on the crime, the job they're looking for and when the crime occurred, officials said. Attorney Richard Hark of the criminal defense law firm Hark and Hark
Updated: 11/27/2011 12:13A
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