Charges were dropped Tuesday for three of the 11 suspects in the ongoing Bronx hate crime case. The prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence to charge Steven Carabello, Bryan Almonte and Brian Cepeda in the Oct. abduction and torture of two gay teenagers and a gay 30-year old man. -Thumbnail image [...]
From a report on an Associated Press investigation: “Nearly $1 billion has been paid over the past decade to resolve claims against the nation’s largest police department [the NYPD], according to an investigation by The Associated Press. The total spending outstrips that of other U.S. cities, though some smaller cities [...]
“The interests of justice…are not well served when a witness’s reward is contingent on the conviction of a defendant rather than the provision of truthful information or testimony.” Not a terribly shocking assertion, right? More shocking: it was lifted from Commonwealth v. Miranda, a recent Massachusetts Supreme Court decision on [...]
New research done by leading criminologists indicates that the growing inequality in this country continues to be highly exacerbated by the widespread and increasing use of prisons and jails. The United States imprisons more people than any other country in the world, even including regimes typically labeled as repressive, such [...]
On Tuesday, a witness in the PA hate crime case testified that one of the two teens accused of assaulting a Mexican immigrant threatened to start a “civil war” if Hispanics retaliated. Last Friday, police officers involved with the case were accused of attempting a cover-up. Stay tuned to Amicus [...]
Yet another chapter was written in the charged saga surrounding the NYPD’s controversial Stop and Frisk practices at a September 28th New York City Council hearing on Stop and Frisk operations in New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) developments. Why a hearing devoted solely to stops and frisks in public [...]
The controversy over the Arizona deputy sheriff accused of lying about being shot by an illegal immigrant seems to have been put to rest on Friday. A test for gunpowder on Pinal County Deputy Sheriff Louie Puroll’s shirt came back negative, ruling out the possibility of a close-range shot. The [...]
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