Police are arresting large numbers of Chinese nationals in raids on illegal marijuana operations in California, Colorado and other states, raising questions about who is financing these grow houses and recruiting the immigrants to tend them, McClatchy Newspapers reports. One recent indictment charges that money...
More than a month after Hurricane Maria wrecked the island, Puerto Rico’s overwhelmed police force of 13,000 officers is struggling to contain crime, just as before, but now with longer shifts, against emboldened criminals and on streets cloaked in darkness, the Miami Herald reports. “It’s...
A donation of $250 to the campaign of Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance raises questions about how his office vets contributions for potential conflicts of interest, CBS News reports. The donation came from a defense attorney on the day a key motion was filed in...
States that have some of the tightest laws regulating who can carry a concealed handgun have significantly lower rates of handgun homicides than states with more lax handgun permitting laws, says a new study from Boston University published in the American Journal of Public Health,...
President Trump erroneously linked a rise in recorded crime in the United Kingdom to the “spread of radical Islamic terror” in his latest outburst on Twitter, The Guardian reports. The president tweeted, “Just out report: ‘United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical...
A study by the Prison Policy Initiative and the ACLU’s Campaign for Smart Justice provides a detailed analysis of women’s incarceration in the United States, highlighting in particular the role of wage disparity in high pretrial detention rates for women. Since 2014, the Prison Policy Initiative...