Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June 2012 The Criminal Justice Information Services Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation has released its crime statistics for the first half of 2012. Entitled, “Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June 2012”, the statistics contained in four tables and a series of spreadsheets indicate...
Yesterday, the FBI released its annual hate crimes accounting report titled, “Hate Crime Statistics 2011.” “The data contained in this report, which is a subset of the information that law enforcement submits to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program, includes the following categories: offense type, location, bias motivation, victim type,...
During a routine traffic stop in 2010, Jerry Kane and his 16-year-old son Joe opened fire on two officers. Kane and his son fled the scene, leaving one man in a ditch and the other on the road, both officers dead from gunshot wounds from an AK-47. In 1995, Timothy...
A new report has been released by the California Department of Justice entitled, “The State of Human Trafficking in California, 2012.” The trafficking of drugs and guns has been a problem in many areas throughout the world, but in the last 5 years human trafficking has become more prevalent among...
The Congressional Research Service recently released a report in time for the Presidential Election which explains in detail the Electoral College. Entitled,“The Electoral College: How It Works in Contemporary Presidential Elections”, this paper includes the following sections: “Constitutional Origins”; “The Electoral College Today”; “2012 Presidential Election: An Electoral College Timeline”;...
The United States Supreme Court ruled today in an 8-0 decision that one part of the Arizona’s immigration law known as Senate Bill 1070 (SB1070) is constitutional. Three other portions of the law were found unconstitutional in a 5-3 opinion. The section of the law ruled constitutional by the Court...
The Justice Policy Institute has recently released a report titled “Rethinking the Blues: How We Police in the U.S. and at What Cost.” This report examines the role of police in the United States, and how police forces have transformed over the years. Police forces have evolved from being “a...
The recently released report to University of California President Mark G. Yudof titled, “Response to Protests on UC Campuses,” attempts to identify “best practices to inform the University’s response to future demonstrations” after the conflict which emerged during the protests at University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Davis...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the International Association of Chiefs of Police have partnered “to develop community-based strategies and tools to improve the public’s awareness and reporting of suspicious activity.” The guide Resource Guide to Improve Your Community’s Awareness and Reporting of Suspicious Activity for Law Enforcement and Community...
On March 18, 1937, an undetected natural gas leak caused an explosion that killed almost 300 students and teachers at the New London Consolidated School in New London, Texas. Following the disaster, a law was passed that required an additive be mixed with natural gas to give it a pungent...
