Tag: Police and Law Enforcement

A shock claim that "one in five women on college campuses have been sexually assaulted" has been parroted by politicians - including President Obama - hoping to score points and appear to be concerned about the supposed war on women. (iStock Image)

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No, 1 in 5 women have not been raped on college campuses

Ashe Schow · August 13, 2014 2:31 pm

Obama calls death of Missouri teenager ‘heartbreaking,’ urges public calm

Brian Hughes · August 12, 2014 9:01 pm

FILE - This March 30, 2011, file photo shows former White House press secretary James Brady, left, who was left paralyzed in the Reagan assassination attempt, looking at his wife Sarah Brady, during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington marking the 30th anniversary of the shooting. This week's death of former White House press secretary James Brady, who survived a gunshot wound to the head in a 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan, has been ruled a homicide, District of Columbia police said Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Reagan aide Jim Brady’s death ruled homicide

BRETT ZONGKERKASEY JONES · August 9, 2014 3:26 am

The New Jersey judge who denied Shaneen Allen's motion to dismiss charges filed against her in October for illegal possession of a firearm is the same one who gave Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice a pass on charges that he assaulted his fiancee.(iStock Image)

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Mother of two faces prison for willingly handing over her legally obtained gun

Ashe Schow · August 8, 2014 4:59 pm

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Nine ‘coyotes’ arrested in joint U.S.-Guatemala operation

Richard Pollock · August 7, 2014 11:03 pm

Opioids are at the center of a major public health issue. (iStock)

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A quick reminder that America’s war on drugs is really complicated

Justin Green · August 5, 2014 9:04 pm

Former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington on March 5. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

House panel’s proposed citizen lawsuits against bureaucrats would discourage future Lois Lerners

Mark Fitzgibbons · August 4, 2014 7:27 pm

FILE - This undated file photo provided by the Arizona Department of Corrections shows inmate Joseph Rudolph Wood. No one on the Supreme Court objected publicly when the justices voted to let Arizona proceed with the execution of Joseph Wood, who unsuccessfully sought information about the drugs that would be used to kill him. Nor did any of the justices try to stop the deaths of inmates in Florida and Missouri by lethal injection. Even as the number of executions annually has dropped by more than half over the past 15 years and the court has barred states from killing juveniles and the mentally disabled, no justice has emerged as a principled opponent of the death penalty. (AP Photo/Arizona Department of Corrections, File)

Justices silent over execution drug secrecy

Mark Sherman · August 4, 2014 8:21 am

FILE - This July 14, 2014 file photo shows Attorney General Eric Holder speaking at the Justice Department in Washington. Holder cautioned against the use of data in sentencing criminal defendants, saying judges should base punishment on the facts of a crime rather than on statistical predictions of future behavior that can be unfair to minorities. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Holder cautions against use of data in sentencing

Eric Tucker · August 1, 2014 7:32 pm

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Watch America’s prison population explode over the course of 34 years in this stunning GIF

Justin Green · August 1, 2014 4:09 pm

In Georgia, a SWAT team broke into a house searching for drugs and threw a flash-bang grenade inside a child's crib. The excessive force was disgusting to begin with. Even worse is the fact that the police had the wrong house and there were no drugs. (iStock Photo)

Nanny-state mindset leads to police brutality

Scott Rasmussen · August 1, 2014 3:30 pm

John Hanner, president of Aramark Correctional Services, defends before a prisons oversight committee his company's record in Ohio to the committee, saying food delays and substitutions have happened less than 1 percent of the time, Wednesday, July 30, 2014, in Columbus, Ohio. The state announced a $130,200 fine against Aramark, Wednesday for covered continued staffing shortages, unacceptable food substitutions and shortages and sanitation issues. (AP Photo/Andrew Welsh-Huggins)

Ohio: 2nd fine levied against prison food vendor

Andrew WelshHuggins · July 30, 2014 9:42 pm