Category: Crime
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A Black Man in a KKK Hood: Race & Crime in Philly
In 2013, no one expects to see a man dressed in a Ku Klux Clan robe mid-morning in Center City, Philadelphia. … The man, who stood on the corner of 13th and Filbert on Tuesday, is not out to lynch or kill black people. In fact, he is black.Thirty-five-year-old Sixx King says he’s using the…
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Red-Light Camera Co.’s Chicago Corruption
The chairman of the Australian company behind Chicago’s red-light program resigned this week and trading in the company’s stock was suspended amid an intensifying investigation into allegations of corruption in its Chicago contract. Redflex Holdings Ltd. announced the extraordinary actions just days after board members were briefed by an outside legal team hired to examine…
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No Warrant Required: The G Knows Everything About You
… by law, utilities must hand over customer records — which include any billing and payment information, phone numbers and power consumption data — to the DEA without court warrants if drug agents believe the data is “relevant” to an investigation. So the utility eventually complied, after losing a legal fight earlier this month. Meet…
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15 y/o Arrested 19th Time After Armed Robbery
A 15-year-old boy with nearly 20 arrests on his record has been charged with armed robbery after he held up a man near his home, police said.It was Jesus Castaneda’s 19th arrest, according to police, and his second gun-related charge. He was last arrested in August 2012 for unlawful use of a weapon, police said.…
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Cook County Keeps Crazy Judge
A Democratic Party-backed judge who won re-election in November while facing battery charges was found not guilty Monday — by reason of insanity. … Bar associations have recommended since 2000 that Brim be tossed from her $182,000-a-year job, but voters have kept returning her to the bench. Experts have said Brim’s case highlights the difficulty…
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UNO Charter Schools Engaging in Graft & Corruption
Kudos for the Sun-Times for shedding light on this. Business as usual. The friends of the friends get rich on the backs of the taxpayer.
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Feds investigating finances of former Ald. Sandi Jackson: sources – Chicago Sun-Times
A federal financial probe of the once-politically powerful Jesse and Sandi Jackson has evolved into two separate investigations, with federal authorities taking an independent look at former Ald. Sandi Jackson, sources close to the probe told the Chicago Sun-Times.Included in the scrutiny of Sandi Jackson, who resigned from her 7th Ward aldermanic position last month,…
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Obama Admin Claims it can Kill Americans
Think about this for just a second. A confidential Justice Department memo concludes that the U.S. government can order the killing of American citizens if they are believed to be “senior operational leaders” of al-Qaida or “an associated force” — even if there is no intelligence indicating they are engaged in an active plot to…
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Immigrant Knows More About US than Most Citizens
Kudos to this guy!! [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY2JR92Scmk]
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Gun Laws and Common Sense
Karl Marx summed up Communism as “from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.” This is a good, pithy saying, which, in practice, has succeeded in bringing, upon those under its sway, misery, poverty, rape, torture, slavery, and death. For the saying implies but does not name the effective agency of…