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Crime rates fall in sheriff's patrol areas, report finds
When battling street gangs across Los Angeles County, sheriff's deputies rely too heavily on suppression and not enough on gang intervention, according to a study released Monday. By not doing more to connect with the communities they police, the report...Tags: FBI, Crime, Law and Justice, Lee Baca
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ESV targeted in sweep
Daily Press, Victorville, Calif.As new East Side Victoria gang members emerge and those incarcerated in 2009 are released, gang enforcement officers from across San Bernardino County came to Victorville to serve injunction paperwork against them this weekend. A permanent injunction in...Tags: Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Laws, Law Enforcement
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As contraband phones flood Baltimore jail, blocking technology comes online
Maryland corrections officials are taking advantage of new technology designed to block the use of contraband cellphones by inmates — a problem at the heart of recent indictments at the Baltimore City Detention Center. In a program being used at...
Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Dwayne Johnson, Justice System
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LGBT inmates report sexual victimization at much higher percentages
Amid the unfolding jail scandal in Baltimore right now, there are two things relevant to the gay community that I want to bring up. I'm not sure if there are any connections between the two, or if one affects the other. But viewed together, they do...
Tags: FBI, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Black Guerrilla Family, Gays and Lesbians
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Quincy man enters Alford plea
Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash.Another man connected to the September 2011 shooting of Ramiro Munoz, Jr. is facing prison time. Erwin Vazquez, 21, of Quincy, entered an Alford plea in Grant County Superior Court to rendering criminal assistance. An Alford plea means that Vazquez...Tags: Punishment, Shootings, Murder
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Man's murder conviction is reduced to voluntary manslaughter
After fatally shooting his unwanted houseguest in the head, Robert Charles Redd stuffed the man's body into a recycling bin and wheeled it into a room of his Pico Rivera home. When the stench of death grew too overpowering a couple of days later, Redd...
Tags: Lawyers, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Defendants, Shootings
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Officials discuss graffiti crackdown
Columbia Basin Herald, Moses Lake, Wash.A Moses Lake man is growing tired of the graffiti problem. County commissioners Richard Stevens, Cindy Carter and Carolann Swartz, along with Grant County Prosecutor Angus Lee, recently discussed a resident's proposal allowing those in the court...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Local Government, Prosecution, Juvenile Delinquency, Justice System
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Man stabbed to death in apparent gang-related attack in Echo Park
A man was stabbed to death early Sunday on an Echo Park street in an attack that appeared to be gang-related, police said. About 2:40 a.m., two men got into an argument at Clinton and Waterloo streets when one of them pulled a knife, stabbed the other...
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Years of work reunites teens accused of '88 gang shooting
The News TribuneThe key was patience, with a dash of cunning. John Ringer, a longtime Tacoma police detective and gang expert, knew what went down the day 17-year-old Bernard Houston was killed. He knew six rival gang members in two cars boxed Houston in at a Hilltop...Tags: Police Arrests, Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Heroin, Lawyers
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Former Modesto gang member devotes his life to reaching at-risk youths
The Modesto Bee---- MODESTO -- Ignacio Pizano's forearm used to bear a tattoo of a devil smoking a marijuana joint. Other body art left no doubt about his allegiance to a street gang and drug-fueled violence that left him facing a life sentence at 15. Now 48, the...Tags: Prisons, Punishment, Health and Safety at School, Religion and Belief
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Law toughens penalties for social media-linked attacks
Gov. Pat Quinn signed into law Saturday a measure that allows stiffer penalties for people convicted of using social media to organize mob attacks. Social media has made it easier for groups of people to orchestrate violence, including those related to...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons, Magnificent Mile, Social Media, Government
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Fighting gangs with jobs: 150 positions available for teens who live in Districts 7, 8, 9
Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn.At least 150 teens from the city's poorest communities will be offered jobs through a host of employers assembled by the Alton Park Development Corp. "When we look at the disparities in the city, African-Americans are at the bottom of the list in...Tags: Business, Career and Workplace, Employment, Employment Opportunities, Unemployment
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