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Violent crime has declined in the past few decades, say government data, but many in the public believes it is worse. “Definitely more crime, more shooting,” one citizen tells the Christian Science Monitor.
The Trump administration, after threatening to withhold funds for Seattle in retaliation for the city’s immigration policies, has agreed to hand over the money. The city and nearby jurisdictions will get $657,975 in Justice Assistance Grant funds.
The Guardian analyzed more than 3,500 criminal cases filed by border district federal prosecutors during a single week of the Trump administration’s tolerance policy and found thousands of hastily accepted guilty pleas.
A study of 15 states’ prison records found women are disciplined up to three times more often than men, and that discipline is often harsher and for smaller infractions of prison rules.
Jennifer Addison died of a bacterial infection that was not treated. Inmate lawyers say the Virginia prison system isn’t meeting medical needs. The state says many inmates get their first regular health care in prison.
Lawyers for California corrections officials are balking at the release of a secret report prepared by the prison system’s top psychiatrist that accuses the state of providing misleading and inaccurate information to a federal judge and attorneys for more than 30,000 inmates.
A St. Louis man says police officers “treated me like a criminal” after a white neighbor tried to block him from entering his downtown loft. A video got five million Facebook views.
Only 28 police officers were convicted nationally in 12 years, but juries found two officers guilty in high profile cases recently. Experts disagree on whether that signals a trend.
James Wolfe, the former security director of the Senate Intelligence Committee, pleaded guilty Monday to making a false statement to the FBI. Records from a New York Times reporter were seized during the investigation.
The government shutdown of Backpage.com this year sought to curtail the type of sex-for-sale classified ads that made the company infamous. Months later, the closure has prompted an increase in sex trafficking on San Francisco streets.