Tagged: Crime and Justice

According to email news alerts just sent by MSNBC and CNN, police have surrounded a white van and payphone at a gas station in Richmond and have taken a man into custody.

Michelle Malkin says we should keep an open mind about the possible identity of the sniper. In spite of law enforcement reliance on them, profiles are really just educated guesses based on PAST events....

There's just been a reporting of another shooting. This time at a gas station in Fredericksburg. Police have stopped traffic on a part of I-95 and are searching for a white Chevy Astro van....

David A. Fahrenthold reports on illegal police strip searches in today's Washington Post: The chaos of the D.C. police raid, with officers banging on the door of his Northwest Washington apartment building and chasing...

An excerpt from today's Washington Times: The police chief might go to prison for perjury. The captain who led the raid might eventually be fired. Twelve other officers have been relieved of duty. And...

Rocky Mountain News – Feds eye 'spy files' 22 cases may involve U.S. criminal probes.

(stepping on soapbox) I know what you're thinking. That Landrith has put on his civil libertarian hat again and is griping about the cops. Well, I come from a family with law enforcement representation...

From ABC News – Suspect tries to carjack vehicle filled with judo wrestlers. This cracked me up this morning. According to a Today interview with some of the passengers in the van, the suspect...

If someone has the time and expertise to help Radley Balko out with a few answers concerning libel law, he can be reached at: click here for email.

In the Washington Times Profiling scorned as 'false comfort': "It is very tempting to take false comfort in the belief that we can spot the bad guy based on appearance alone," Mr. Mineta told...