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“An international criminal justice major encompasses anthropology, sociology, psychology, statistics, political science and economics. It's everything put into one major. If you want to have a positive influence on society, I'd argue that criminal justice is probably one of the most important majors to pursue,” he ...

Elder Jeffery Hobbs runs “Been There Done That” Ministries, assisting clients with crisis intervention, recovery sessions and program referrals. Facebook · Twitter · Email; Print; Save. Warren County native and former addict Elder Jeffery Hobbs works to help people who are in the same situation in which he ...

BENTON, KY — Schools may not get as much money as they'd like for additional safety measures, but for a little more than $2,000, Central Elementary was able to add another layer of safety. It's a way for them to know more about who exactly is walking through their halls. When your child is behind the ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) -- Nearly one year ago a shooting took four lives too soon and changed the Wausau Metro Area forever. Each of those who died acted bravely as they stood up to protect others. Moving forward, 7 Investigates looked at some of the factors that contributed to the incident and how ...

WASHINGTON - Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley weighed in on President Trump's congratulatory call to Russia's Vladamir Putin Wednesday, who he called a criminal and said it was a call he wouldn't have made. "I don't see how there could be a good motivation for it. Maybe the President had a good ...

DeWine campaign says Mary Taylor 'criminal,' so 'lock her up' .... When you abuse your power and fly around on a state plane for personal use, it's not conservative — it's criminal. #OHGov #LockHerUp #RINO.” Hey @MaryTaylorOH! When you abuse your power and fly around on a state plane for personal ...

From charges of assault to attempted murder, possession of guns and drugs - at a time when youth violence in Metro is at an all-time high - teens are getting a second chance. MOREAdditional LinksPoll. Special. Davidson County news. Click to read more headlines from Davidson County.More >>. Click to ...

Why don't we have better criminal justice data? Because justice in this country is primarily local. The United States has over 3,000 counties, and each county has multiple agencies that record data, each in its own way. There is no common language, and there are no standard definitions. Worse, the data is ...

A crucial reason is that, as advocates and researchers have shown, criminal history data — a major input to pretrial risk assessment tools — is itself often racially skewed, the result of long-standing racist practices in policing and in the criminal justice system. For example, police arrest black people at twice ...

Across the country, talking the talk of criminal justice reform has gotten many people elected as DA. Once in office, their reforms have often been painfully slow and disappointing. Krasner was the first candidate elected who publicly committed not just to intermittent changes, but a radical overhaul. So far ...

Whether it's slashing sentences or reducing the population behind bars, criminal justice reform is now supported by a broad swath of political leaders — left, center and right. But for the most part, the reformers and their rhetoric focus on people accused or convicted of non-violent offenses. It makes sense to ...

Greitens is expected to ask a judge to move up his criminal trial to April 3, more than a month earlier than scheduled. Attorneys for the Republican governor at a hearing Monday, March, 19, 2018 also asked for a bench trial. The circuit attorney's office opposes both notions. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File).

“Clearly race, party and place of residence are driving forces in shaping the voters' views on bias in the criminal justice system,” said John Jackson, a visiting professor at the institute and one of the directors of the poll. “It is obvious that many Illinois voters live in two different worlds when it comes to matters ...

The report's recommendations include coming up with ways to effectively track cases as they go through the criminal justice system and changing laws to rule out time in jail for certain crimes. This evaluation of the indigent defender system in Mississippi was conducted by the Sixth Amendment Center of ...

The leader of the Europol team tracking illicit cryptocurrency transactions said the agency has found more and more people are using alternatives to bitcoin on the dark web. “We have seen in 2017 and 2018 a move of some criminals and criminal groups over from bitcoin to currencies that guarantee higher ...

PARK CITY, Utah – Authorities from multiple states are seeking information on an “extremely intelligent” serial robbery suspect who has ties to Utah. According to the Tustin, California police department, Daniel David Courson, 45, robbed banks in California, befriended and robbed a sick wealthy individual, ...

During his encounter with young people, Pope Francis heard some of their stories and spoke very clearly with them. Like when this Nigerian girl told him she was a human trafficking victim and was later forced into prostitution. The pope said treating people that way is criminal and reveals a serious ...

An expansive facial recognition network in the southwestern Chinese city of Guiyang have reportedly enabled police to detect and apprehend criminals in as little as two minutes. The surveillance cameras are set up in more than 10,000 public places across the city, which is larger than the state of Delaware ...

"We are increasingly alarmed by the injustice in our criminal justice system," Jay-Z said in a statement. "Money, time and lives are wasted with the current policies. It's time for an innovative and progressive technology that offers sustainable solutions to tough problems. Promise's team, led by Phaedra, ...

John Kennedy and Attorney General Jeff Landry's recent column in The Advocate, I thought it was appropriate to correct the many inaccuracies regarding the historic and bipartisan criminal justice reform package that was passed during the 2017 legislative session. First, the senator and attorney general ...

It's hard to know what goes through children's minds when they make threats against their peers or a school. But regardless of whether the threat is real or a joke, the consequences can be serious. There have been dozens of threats, many of them online through social media, made against Western ...

Every well-conceived criminal activity needs a lookout or a mole, someone with inside information who can help the criminals know what the police are up to. People in the country illegally who live in and around Oakland, California have a highly-placed lookout in Libby Schaaf. She's in a good position to ...

Sure, the costs of procrastinating on criminal justice reform pales in comparison to the tens of billions of dollars the commonwealth needs to pay pension benefits over the next few decades, but addressing the problem before we reach another fiscal cliff should be a cause both sides of the political aisle can ...

After four hours of deliberations, a six-person jury on Wednesday acquitted Saifullah Khan, a former Yale student who stood trial for allegedly raping another undergraduate in her Trumbull College dorm room in 2015. But according to three law professors interviewed by the News, the state had strong ...

OLYMPIA — Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed charges against the owner of Tacos Guaymas restaurants for allegedly using “sales suppression software” for cash transactions, pocketing more than $5.6 million in sales tax. This is the largest “sales suppression software” in Washington state history ...

Criminals who use commercial internet sites to facilitate sex trafficking should be arrested. And any website operator who knowingly participates in that sordid enterprise also should be prosecuted. But two bills in Congress, aimed primarily at an the internet site Backpage, which has been accused of ...

In fact, now the governor is throwing up his hands and accusing district attorneys and judges of forcing him to free criminals. That's a sharp turnaround from just a few months ago when he used words like “historic,” “data-driven” and “works better for everyone” to describe the Louisiana Justice Reinvestment ...

Even for those who have finished paying their debt to society, as criminal justice reform advocate and New Jersey Senator Cory Booker likes to say, there are more than 40,000 collateral consequences, including decreased access to social services (food stamps, public housing) and educational and job ...

Last month, senators in New York's Democratic Conference unveiled a series of proposed criminal justice reforms that included many of the issues touched on in the poll. It comes as there has been an increased focus on the fact people who cannot afford even low-level bail amounts often languish in jail for ...

With so much attention devoted to President Donald Trump's fumbling of the #MeToo movement, the Russia investigation and the ballooning deficit, it's easy to lose sight of the relentless effort by Trump and U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions to reverse so many of the Obama-era criminal justice reforms.

"The River City Rifle & Pistol Club denounces all criminal use of firearms and joins in mourning for the loss of life at the hands of murderers," the statement read. "The River City Rifle & Pistol Club has been a part of our community since 1968. We have always been and will continue to be good corporate ...

BATON ROUGE - With crime around the capital area on the rise, deputies at the East Baton Rouge Sheriff's Office are turning to social media for help. The office is posting stolen items and surveillance video of thieves on their Facebook page weekly. It's proving to be successful. In the past two months, the ...

ICE attacks Oakland mayor for warning residents about immigration sweeps, says 800 criminals eluded capture ... "The Oakland mayor's decision to publicize her suspicions about ICE operations further increased that risk for my officers and alerted criminal aliens — making clear that this reckless decision ...

The Criminal Justice Reform Committee of Conference is working at the State House to reconcile the Massachusetts House and Senate criminal justice reform bills. Legislators, as well as Gov. Charlie Baker, have said they hope work will be completed soon. A letter sent to the six committee members Feb.

A home caregiver in Anoka County has been charged with criminal neglect after an 83-year-old man under his care was found naked and moaning in pain, with badly infected bedsores that were allegedly left untreated for weeks. Mark L. Durocher, 56, of Coon Rapids, failed to provide basic care for the ...

Justin L. Mack, justin.mack@Indystar.com Published 12:25 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2018 | Updated 3:17 p.m. ET Feb. 28, 2018. play. CLOSE. Hundreds of people walk outside the chain link fence of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. They came to pay their respects after the Feb. 14, 2018, school shooting.

Some are blaming the problem on criminal justice reform legislation that Idaho adopted in 2014, nationally known as the Justice Reinvestment Initiative. Its mission is to help curb the state's corrections costs, make sure the right people are in prison and re-invest saved money in improved public safety efforts ...

They say you cannot judge a book by its cover - but if you know a Daniel or a Sarah, chances are they might have had a brush with the law. Two of Wales' police forces have revealed the most common names for criminals from 2016, responding to a Freedom of Information request. John and Nicola were ...