The Crime Report

JULY 12, 2021

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports just 22 percent of Pennsylvania Department of Corrections guards were vaccinated as of mid-June, according to voluntary department reports. But over 75 percent of the people incarcerated in Pennsylvania’s 24 state prisons have received their shots.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The campaign, which is part of a multiyear, multi-million-dollar effort by the group to boost voter turnout among crime victims, will primarily concentrate on battleground states, including Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Texas, where competitive elections take place and a fresh influx of voters can have a significant impact.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Keeping elderly offenders in prison until their deaths is expensive, too: the report found that Pennsylvania pays at least $122 million per year in care for people over 50 serving life without parole in the state’s prisons. At 9,802, the state imprisons more than twice the people serving LWP than the second-highest population in Pennsylvania.

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Broadcast Law Blog

JANUARY 11, 2023

Read other newsletters and trade publications and consult your own attorney to stay on top of the regulatory obligations that apply to your stations. That’s because there are two sets of deadlines that are not as significant this year.

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The Crime Report

MAY 3, 2022

Crediting people for time served — giving criminal defendants “credit” against their sentence for the time they spend detained pretrial — is a deceptively harmful practice that punishes innocent people, argues University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Prof. Kimberly Kessler Ferzan. Download the full paper here.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

New York and Pennsylvania are still considering versions of California’s legislation. The law, which received bipartisan support ,requires tech companies to safeguard children and teens’ “well-being” while using the Internet. Several states have adopted the approach.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

as a result of Supreme Court rulings, but it has helped to contribute to a broken system, speakers told a panel organized by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. The use of deception during an interrogation is not illegal in the U.S.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Photo courtesy Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. To read about John Wetzel, the former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections (PADOC), one might think he is the August Vollmer of prison management. Pennsylvania shows the road forward. John Wetzel.

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The Crime Report

JULY 26, 2022

She recommends removing barriers to getting occupational licenses, enacting more automatic record sealing laws like Colorado and Pennsylvania have, and working to limit the use of unregulated and often inaccurate online criminal background check services as solutions.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 31, 2022

A recent study by scientists at the National Policing Institute, George Mason University, Arizona State University, and the University of Pennsylvania has produced evidence that training officers to operate according to the principles of procedural justice changed officer behavior, reduced arrests, improved community perceptions of the police, and (..)

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

In contrast, a Pennsylvania program offering treatment instead of charges for drug offenses is gaining traction. Participation in California’s drug courts decreased statewide by 67 percent between 2014 and 2018.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 3, 2022

A recent peer-reviewed study by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and collaborators at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pennsylvania suggests that existing risk assessment instruments commonly used to guide the life-altering decisions made by judges, prosecutors, and parole boards about the liberty of the people before them could be retooled (..)

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The Crime Report

MARCH 8, 2022

A new working paper from researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School and the University of Pennsylvania has found that even though the number of crimes fell in 2020, the chance of being victimized if you were out on the street rose significantly, reports Megan McArdle in an op-ed for the Washington Post. “In

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

times more often than men, that threats of death and gun violence are more than twice as common as any other form of threat, and that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona possess the highest share of incidents against poll workers and election officials. Meanwhile, U.S.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 18, 2021

Moreover, of the 20 states analyzed, only Alabama, Pennsylvania and Indiana had reliable data available on “indigent” defendants, otherwise known as individuals who need aid because they don’t have the means to hire a private attorney.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Drexel Autism Institute at Drexel University on the experiences of autistic individuals and their caregivers across their interactions with the criminal justice system in Pennsylvania has found, among other conclusions, an increased risk for interaction with the justice system, including being male and having a co-occurring psychiatric diagnosis, reports (..)

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Other authors of the study, entitled , I ncorporating Procedural Justice into Hot Spots Policing: Lessons from a Multicity Randomized Trial , included: Anthony Braga , Jerry Lee Professor of Criminology and Director of the Crime and Justice Policy Lab in the Department of Criminology at the University of Pennsylvania; Cody Telep, an associate professor (..)

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Parasec

APRIL 4, 2023

The Pennsylvania Department of State’s Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations recently sent out postcard reminders to notify those impacted by the obligation. We do know that FinCEN will accept reports electronically via its website beginning January 1, 2024. Our team will continue to monitor any developments on the matter.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In fact, Upper Darby is home to the 69th Street Station, a hub for the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA)—a regional public transport operation that provides regular service for four million people in southeast Pennsylvania.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

The programs include: Grants to Office of the Chief Judge and the Justice Advisory Council in Cook County, to work with the Chicago Regional Organizing for Antiracism ; Grants to Office of Criminal Justice Coordination for partnership with Total Community Action in New Orleans; Grants to the Center for Carceral Communities —an initiative of the (..)

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The Crime Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Excessive wait times have been reported in police departments from California to Pennsylvania, PBS NewsHour reports. Every second matters during an emergency, and 911 operator shortages can make wait times longer and lead to a backlog that’s hard for small agencies to recover from.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 11, 2022

The harm reduction organization Eleyvst , the Pennsylvania Recovery Organizations Alliance (PRO-A) , and the data firm RIWI sought to do just that with their new, ambitious public opinion survey. And yet, stigmatizing those who use drugs persists, even as our governments declare the opioid epidemic a public health emergency.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 19, 2022

Pennsylvania police officers Devon Smith, Sean Dolan and Brian Devaney of the Police Department in Sharon Hill, a Philadelphia suburb, have been charged with manslaughter in the fatal shooting of 8-year-old Fanta Bility outside a high school football game in August, 2021, when they opened fire after two teenagers began shooting outside the stadium, (..)

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Parasec

JANUARY 4, 2023

Pennsylvania: Annual Report Requirement Coming. Currently, the Pennsylvania Department of State requires decennial (every ten years) filing for entities registered to do business in the state. To read more about the bill, go here.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 17, 2021

After Philadelphia rapper RunUp Rico and a friend were shot to death in Chester, Pa., in February, police there took a new, aggressive approach to finding those responsible. They walked around neighborhoods they believed the group behind the shootings frequented.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Sorenson , a professor with the University of Pennsylvania who researches firearms and violence against women. But, USA Today details that the question of whether guns make women feel safer is unique, and seemingly divergent, from the reality of whether women actually are safer with guns. Sorenson continued, “There’s no evidence of that.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 19, 2022

When Carter Walker, a newspaper reporter from LNP Media Group in Pennsylvania, requested civil forfeiture records in Lancaster County, he got stonewalled in 2019. As a result, the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General announced charges against the former Lancaster County Drug Task Force supervisor on March 15.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 27, 2021

During the 15-year period, all but ten states saw at least one hate crime conviction, with forty percent of the 284 hate crime convictions between 2005 and 2019 occurring in federal judicial districts in six states: New York (30), California (26), Texas (19), Arkansas (15), Tennessee (13), and Pennsylvania (12).

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 4, 2021

Efforts to tackle systemic racism in the administration of justice need to include a focus on the rights of the disabled community, according to a University of Pennsylvania law professor.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 13, 2022

Did you hear the one about the 80-year old Pennsylvania woman who paid $25,000 in taxes on lottery winnings for a lottery that never existed? Or the senior who lost $250,000 to psychic scams? How about the concerned grandpa who posted bail money for his grandson who was never arrested?

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Pillus, a 23-year-old from Lincoln Park, and charged him with five firearm offenses for bringing ghost gun kits across the Delaware River after he bought them at a Pennsylvania gun show in September, according to a statement from acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew Bruck noted by North Jersey.com. Authorities arrested William R.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 22, 2022

Tashon, who asked that his full name be withheld to avoid repurcussions, is a Black man with PTSD, bipolar disorder, and anxiety, who bounced around several prisons in Pennsylvania, including the maximum-security SCI-Greene, as well as SCI-Fayette, SCI-Houtzdale, and SCI-Somerset.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 16, 2022

The coun­try currently has about 18 entit­ies over­see­ing pris­ons, such as the Correc­tional Asso­ci­ation of New York, the John Howard Asso­ci­ation in Illinois, and the Pennsylvania Prison Soci­ety.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 2, 2022

of the University of Pennsylvania, discusses how investments in law enforcement are a scalable and effective strategy to maintain public safety, particularly when their efforts are focused on the places and people at the highest risk of violent crime. Aaron Chalfin , Ph.D.,

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The use of paraprofessionals to provide individualized information about defendants that could guide judges’ decisions about granting bail could reduce racial disparities in pretrial detention, argues Paul Heaton , the director of the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.

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The Crime Report

DECEMBER 28, 2021

According to one report cited by Vera, Pennsylvania authorities in 2019 required mail sent to prisoners, including greeting cards, to be routed through a processing plant in Florida where it was photocopied and then sent back to inmates.

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The Crime Report

MAY 19, 2022

A recent report from the Quattrone Center on the Fair Administration of Jujstice at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School provides comprehensive guidelines for “collaboration agreements” that outline how to handle discovery of misconduct and other delicate issues like media relationships and information sharing.

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