The Crime Report (https://thecrimereport.org/author/stephenh/)
The number of adults on probation and parole in the U.S. dropped 14 percent between 2008 and 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics reports. The total went down two percent between 2017 and 2018, driving the number on community supervision around the U.S. to its lowest level since 1998.
In Minneapolis, many Blacks are unenthusiastic about the defund movement. They say they despise the police but need someone to call when things go awry.
While lawmakers in at least nine states have introduced bills that would ban or limit the use of tear gas by police, many of the measures have been rejected or softened.
An analysis by city officials seems to dispute the idea pushed by Mayor Bill de Blasio and police Commissioner Dermot Shea that the release of suspects by courts is behind the recent shooting and murder increase.
Guards and inmates suggest short staffing in part due to coronavirus left the prison vulnerable. What happened could be a cautionary tale for other Georgia prisons facing the same pandemic and tensions.
Attorney General William Barr and Ivanka Trump are announcing details of the grants at a White House event on Tuesday.
As members of Congress dispute President Donald Trump’s idea of overhauling the FBI headquarters across from his hotel, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) is funding a big FBI project in his home state.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance pursues his subpoena for the president’s financial records, as President Donald Trump blasts “the worst witch hunt in American history.”
Activists who pressed for change on gun laws after the 2018 Parkland, Fl., school shooting are shifting some efforts to the campaign for racial justice.
Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), a leading candidate for the vice presidential nomination, openly defied U.S. Supreme Court orders to reduce overcrowding in California prisons while serving as the state’s attorney general.