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The Oakland Police Department’s failure to make arrests in the murders of African Americans, as well as to provide support to family members without discrimination is arguably a violation of international human rights law, according to a University of California-Berkeley Law report.
John Kapoor, a former billionaire who founded opioid maker Insys Therapeutics Inc., was sentenced to 5½ years in federal prison for his role in a racketeering conspiracy to illegally boost sales of his firm’s prescription fentanyl drug Subsys.
Milwaukee DA John Chisholm and Wisconsin Public Defender John Reed have crossed turf lines to collaborate in a system of “community-oriented” justice whose end goal is to put fewer people in prison. In a Harvard paper, they argue there’s no reason why other cities can’t follow a similar path.
These are among the numerous evidence-based alternatives now being used by corrections authorities across the U.S. to discipline unruly or dangerous inmates, according to a study by Marc Levin of the Texas Public Policy Foundation.
The massive anticrime law passed by Congress in 1994 is known as a “tough on crime” measure. Its “safety valve” provisions have allowed for the reductions in many federal drug penalties, a new analysis finds.
According to a new poll, support for New York’s recently passed law has dropped from 55 percent to 37 percent since April. That follows a storm of criticism from legislators, victim rights groups and others who say eliminating cash bail endangers public safety.
In a quiet move to restrict “birthright tourism,” the Trump Administration sent notices to all U.S. embassies and consular officers, telling them to deny B visa requests from pregnant women seeking to come to the U.S.
A preliminary FBI count shows declines in all categories of violent and property crime. There were nearly 4 percent fewer murders in the first half of 2019 than in the same period in 2018.
Phil Keith, director of the U.S. Justice Department’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) Office, and Katharine Sullivan, who runs DOJ’s Office of Justice Programs, will lead the Commission. Attorney General William Barr says the panel will fill “a need for a modern study of how law enforcement can best protect and serve American communities.”
At a news conference marking his release from prison, Delbert Africa, a longtime member of MOVE, was unrepentant about his part in the violent 1978 confrontation between the group and Philadelphia police, which ended with the death of an officer.