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Ronald Phillips, 43, was put to death Wednesday morning in the first execution in Ohio in more than three years. He was 19 when he raped and beat to death the 3-year-old daughter of his girlfriend in Akron.
In a growing menace, scammers try to extort money after phoning parents or other kin and falsely convincing them that a loved one is being held hostage. They sometimes research potential victims on social media.
The Trump administration’s refusal to publicly accuse Russia and others in a wave of politically motivated hacking attacks is creating a policy vacuum that security experts fear will encourage more cyber warfare. The White House “just wants ‘cyber’ to go away,” said one expert.
Beginning Saturday, cops will be required to activate their body cameras at the moment they are dispatched on a call. The policy change follows the controversial July 15 fatal shooting of a woman by an officer who did not turn on his camera.
Inmates at a San Bernardino County jail claimed they were subjected to Taser gun torture and brutal pat-down searches that their attorneys characterized as sodomy. Nearly three dozen inmates will be compensated for the abuse, which is under investigation by the FBI.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked Washington, D.C., from enforcing strict limits on carrying concealed firearms in public, restrictions that police officials have said are necessary to promote public safety in the nation’s capital, reports the Washington Post. In a 2-to-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit said the District’s system, which requires a “good reason . . . Want to read more? Please subscribe to The Crime Report!
A police investigation uncovered a secretive network of male customers, many of whom worked in computer technology fields and were comfortable using those skills to arrange–and rate–sexual rendezvous. “The internet has greased the wheels on illegal sexual exploitation,” said one prosecutor.
Operation Streamline, a fast-track prosecution program that began in Texas in 2005, charges and sentences as many as 70 border-crossers in a single day in Tucson federal court. Each cookie-cutter case occupies a judge for about a minute.
Vancouver police say they are the first in Canada to use computer models to predict crime, a technology trend that has been growing in the U.K. and U.S. for the past five years.
President Trump and his team continue to poke needles at the former Alabama senator, who at times during the presidential campaign was the rare politician of national standing willing to stand beside Trump. That history has not saved him from the petulant president’s ire.