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Hackers attack law enforcement websites
Hackers gained access to the Salt Lake City Police Department website that gathers citizen complaints about drug and other crimes, including phone numbers, addresses and other personal data of informants, police said. The website remained down Friday
Updated: 02/03/2012 09:58P
New law undercuts TriMet's effort to boost revenue through fare-cheat fines
HB 2712 was regarded as a crime-and-courts bill – a much-needed simplification of how revenue from criminal fines, assessments and other financial penalties is distributed. But somehow – and no one in Salem or at Portland can remember exactly how–the
Updated: 02/03/2012 09:34P
Tackling crime early
City of Wilmington Police Department Sgt. Curt Stansbury sits in front of posters showing local gang members being tracked by law enforcement in the department's Criminal Conspiracy Unit office in Wilmington. Photo illustration by Matt Born By Brian
Updated: 02/03/2012 09:21P
Anonymous hackers attack law enforcement sites
The Utah hackers gained access Tuesday to sensitive data, including citizen complaints about drug crimes, including phone numbers, addresses and other personal information, police said. "We're still knee deep in trying to get a feel for the extent of
Updated: 02/03/2012 09:02P
Army interrogates crime lab workers after critical news reports
"We seek to strike the proper balance between First Amendment freedoms and the law enforcement and national security interest in investigating unauthorized disclosures of classified information," department spokesman Dean Boyd said. In the crime lab
Updated: 02/03/2012 08:46P
Rwandan war crimes suspect Mugesera gets lawyer
The lawyer who defended Rwandan businessman Desiree Munyaneza, the first war criminal to be prosecuted under Canada's crimes against humanity and war crimes law, said it's hard to say whether Mugesera will get a fair trial, but Rwanda will certainly
Updated: 02/03/2012 08:21P
Nazis, nutters and rogue doctors in 'Law & Order - UK'
Although the plot to this episode of Law & Order - UK is somewhat imaginative, there is one thing about it that rings true, that is that it is the innocent who have the most to fear from the criminal justice system. The episode can currrently be found
Updated: 02/03/2012 07:49P
Anderson University, county discuss establishing criminal justice center
By Nikie Mayo ANDERSON — Anderson University is in discussions with the city and county to establish a downtown criminal justice center that would include college classes, an emergency operations center and possibly a police laboratory.
Updated: 02/03/2012 07:41P
Anderson University, county discuss establishing criminal justice center
By Nikie Mayo ANDERSON — Anderson University is in discussions with the city and county to establish a downtown criminal justice center that would include college classes, an emergency operations center and possibly a police laboratory.
Updated: 02/03/2012 07:41P
Sex Smears and the Rule of Law at Yale
Despite the high stakes, the OCR insisted that universities may not use a "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard, characteristic of the criminal law, or even the intermediate standard of "clear and convincing evidence." They must instead adopt the lowest
Updated: 02/03/2012 07:10P
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