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Police 'whitewashing' crime stats, study says
Withholding the information makes police less accountable and makes it more difficult for researchers to study how race may influence policing, said Paul Millar, a Nippissing University criminal justice professor, who conducted the study with Akwasi
Updated: 02/01/2012 12:17A
Police 'whitewashing' crime stats, study says
Withholding the information makes police less accountable and makes it more difficult for researchers to study how race may influence policing, said Paul Millar, a Nippissing University criminal justice professor, who conducted the study with Akwasi
Updated: 02/01/2012 12:17A
Archive for January, 2012
Some of the weapons surfaced at crime scenes including at the murder scene in Arizona of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry. Many Republicans have called for Atty. Gen. Eric Holder and Lanny Breuer, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division,
Updated: 02/01/2012 12:05A
Duquesne to employ new science vs. crime
Schantz, a former DNA analyst with the Army Crime Lab, is a forensic specialist who works with the Department of Justice's International Criminal Investigative Assistance program in Washington. "With Duquesne looking into these newer technologies,
Updated: 02/01/2012 12:00A
Illinois QC law enforcement team up in special investigative unit
of the Rock Island County Integrity Task Force, the four largest police departments in Henry County have teamed up with the Illinois State Police to create an independent unit to investigate matters of public integrity and major felony crimes.
Updated: 01/31/2012 11:29P
Group Seeks Repeal of Kansas Sodomy Law
Gay sex is a crime in the state of Kansas even though the United States Supreme Court says the state law forbidding it is unconstitutional. The law is the Criminal Sodomy Law which prohibits same sex couples from having sex. But the Supreme Court has
Updated: 01/31/2012 11:25P
N38bn: Court Clears Bankole, Nafada
Justice Suleiman Belgore, who had earlier refused an application to quash the charges, yesterday agreed that Bankole and Nafada did not contravene any known law in obtaining the loan. Shortly after they left office, the Economic and Financial Crimes
Updated: 01/31/2012 09:53P
Defense lawyer fights racism in death row cases
But that changes when the conversation turns to the role of race in the criminal justice system. Then the Howard University grad becomes all authority and passion. She cites case law, death-penalty statistics and the history of Southern lynchings.
Updated: 01/31/2012 09:49P
3 Strikes Law Change Passes Assembly
(CapitolAlert.com) One day after turning thumbs down, the Assembly today passed legislation that would ask voters to alter California's "three strikes" criminal sentencing law. Assembly Bill 327, approved by a vote of 41-33, now goes to the Senate.
Updated: 01/31/2012 09:30P
A test of Aitzaz's legal skills in NRO case
However, such courts may proceed independently for an action, which falls within the definition of their municipal laws, governing criminal actions. In 1997-98, the then attorney general (Chaudhry Mohammad Farooq) of the Nawaz Sharif government had
Updated: 01/31/2012 08:33P
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