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Shadow and light converge on Mob Museum
George Ormsby pretends to fire a tommy gun during the opening day Tuesday of the National Museum of Organized Crime and Law Enforcement, also known as the Mob Museum . Ex-mobsters, former FBI agents and the general public toured the new attraction at
Updated: 02/15/2012 05:04A
Tories ready to join battle over minimum sentences
"I think Canadians believe the courts have not been tough enough in dealing with gun crime and this government is determined to make sure we have laws that can deal with serious gun crime," Harper added. With a whole new group of mandatory minimum drug
Updated: 02/15/2012 04:21A
Accenture to develop crime management system for Norwegian police
The crime management system will enable the Norwegian police force to better manage, link and analyze case information and intelligence for greater reliability and consistency across law enforcement, police investigations, border management,
Updated: 02/15/2012 04:13A
TURKEY: "Denigrating religious values" - A way to silence critics of religion?
Article 216 (3) of the Criminal Code ("Denigrating the religious values of a group") is the legal basis of the prosecutions. The manner in which Article 216 (3) is applied is of great importance in enabling Turkey to implement its international human
Updated: 02/15/2012 04:11A
Brooklyn DA to Congress: renew Violence Against Women Act
VAWA funding helps law enforcement agencies throughout the US provide important services to vulnerable victims of crimes like sexual assault and domestic violence. It helps law enforcement agencies across the country enhance the criminal justice system
Updated: 02/15/2012 04:07A
Conservatives bungling justice, security issues
There was the Tackling Violent Crime Act - its centrepiece, mandatory minimums for people convicted of "serious gun crimes." Tuesday, Ontario Superior Court Judge Anne Molloy has gutted that law, finding that a minimum three-year-sentence for a young
Updated: 02/15/2012 03:42A
New bills encroach on our privacy
In its own determined haste to rewrite the current Criminal Code, the Conservative government would rather push us in the direction of 1984. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, that is. The Stephen Harper government has already introduced its omnibus
Updated: 02/15/2012 03:34A
New bills encroach on our privacy
In its own determined haste to rewrite the current Criminal Code, the Conservative government would rather push us in the direction of 1984. George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, that is. The Stephen Harper government has already introduced its omnibus
Updated: 02/15/2012 03:34A
NEPAL: Families of the disappeared in a legal and emotional limbo
Delays in establishing the commission on enforced disappearances and in criminalizing enforced disappearances have resulted in equal delays for victims in knowing the truth and obtaining justice, as the regular criminal justice system has proven
Updated: 02/15/2012 03:32A
Tories hew to common sense save crime fixation
There was the Tackling Violent Crime Act - its centrepiece, mandatory minimums for people convicted of "serious gun crimes." Tuesday, the National Post reported that Ontario Superior Court Judge Anne Molloy has gutted that law, finding that a minimum
Updated: 02/15/2012 02:28A
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