The Crime Report

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Porter highlighted B24-0416 , Washington D.C’s Revised Criminal Code Act of 2022 (RCCA) which positioned D.C Massachusetts and Washington state officials this year worked on guaranteeing ballot access for incarcerated voters. The report was written by Nicole D. Porter, Senior Director of Advocacy at the Sentencing Project.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Summarized by the Washington Post , the researchers found that white males — who constitute the majority of firearm deaths — lost the most years of potential life because of suicide by gun, “a total of 4.95 White Males Leading Victims of Suicide. million potential years during the decade-long study period.”

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The Crime Report

JULY 25, 2022

In Washington, the police force cleared 49 percent of its murder cases through July, compared to 65 percent during the same period last year. Last year, the Metropolitan Police Department ended with a final 69 percent clearance rate, reports the Washington Times. The climb wasn’t unique to Washington.

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The Crime Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Young people are more likely to be caught, criminal justice experts say, and thus show up disproportionately in arrest numbers, such as in Washington D.C. where juvenile carjacking cases have tripled despite a 60 percent decrease in the number of juvenile cases in virtually every other category of violent crime.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Washington D.C. has reached a grim milestone of 200 homicides this year, marking the first time that the “symbolic threshold of deadly violence” has been crossed in the nation’s capital since 2003, according to The Washington Post. This news comes as the spike in violent crime, which surged 30 percent in 2020, has begun to level off.

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The Crime Report

APRIL 4, 2022

Facing rising rates of homicides, gun violence and carjackings, coupled with slower responses to critical emergency calls, as well as mounting overtime pay for officers amid the loss of about 280 officers over 18 months that has left the department with its lowest staffing levels in two decades, Washington D.C. mayor Muriel E.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Illustration courtesy George Washington University Law School. The number and nature of monitor­ing rules, combined with the capacity of surveillance technology, facilitates easier detection of technical rule violations, which in turn drives reincarceration,” said the study.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 12, 2021

The law enforcement community and youth justice advocates in Washington State are at odds over a new law requiring juveniles to have access to an attorney before police can question them. Advocates claim House Bill 1140, signed by Gov. But police say it will hinder their ability to investigate crime, reports the Yakima Herald.

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The Crime Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

The nation’s first legal overdose prevention centers, operating in the New York City neighborhoods of Washington Heights and East Harlem, have reversed 76 overdoses since opening last Nov.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Hannah Sussman is originally from Boston, MA and graduated from George Washington University in 2020 with a double major in Political Science and Peace Studies. He is also a patient care technician at Emerson Hospital and a medic in the Massachusetts Army National Guard. He is from Leominster, MA.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

ABC News and the Washington Post additionally could find no causal relationship between police spending and crime rates in analyses of 1985 to 2020 and 1960 to 2018, respectively. Los Angeles County’s 2023 budget is slated to increase that budget by another $250 million.

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OCTOBER 21, 2022

Three states have already passed similar legislation, including Nebraska, Utah and Colorado. A similar measure failed earlier this year in California due to concerns about whether eliminating the exception would force the state to pay prisoners minimum wage.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

2, reports the Washington Post. A third bomb threat in just over a month at Howard University marks a wave of threats that have targeted historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) this year, with at least eight HBCUs being threatened on Jan. 4, followed by four more on Feb.

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The Justice Department on Wednesday formally banned the use of subpoenas, warrants or court orders to seize reporters’ communications records or demand their notes or testimony in an effort to uncover confidential sources in leak investigations, reports Charlie Savage for the Washington Post.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 26, 2021

Nearly three dozen formerly incarcerated people presented business pitches in a competition through the city’s Aspire program, which offers help to entrepreneurial ex-offenders, the Washington Post reported. Other participants in last weekend’s Washington, D.C.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

The ruling has profound implications for the safety and conduct of up to 83 million people who live in New York and seven other states plus Washington DC, which have similar “proper cause” laws. The law had required anyone wanting to carry a handgun in public to prove that they had a “proper cause” to do so.

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The Crime Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In addition to dispatching Election Day monitors, FBI special agents serving as election crime coordinators will be on duty in the bureau’s 56 field offices, in conjunction with attorneys at the agency’s National Security Division and U.S. attorneys’ offices, to counter any potential threats. to receive voting-related complaints from the public.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 17, 2021

Ken Baldwin, the District Attorney in Washington County, said separating witnesses and victims from the tension of courtroom proceedings was not only important as a way of minimizing stress, but was essential for the needs of justice as well. “You

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MARCH 7, 2022

More than 60 percent of shootings in King County, the largest county in Washington State, last year occurred outside the city. King County is dispatching what it calls peacekeepers to work with young people they have identified as prone to committing shootings, becoming shooting victims or both.

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MAY 16, 2022

In a a recent paper published in the Washington University Law Review , Brandon Hasbrouck , an Assistant Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law, writes that the role of prosecutors, as the most powerful actors in the U.S. The traditional adversarial approach undermines the U.S.

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JUNE 6, 2022

A new analysis by the Federal Trade Commission has found that Americans lost more than $1 billion to cryptocurrency scams since the start of last year, accounting for a fourth of all dollars lost to fraud using any payment method and taking in more than 46,000 people from the beginning of 2021 through March, reports the Washington Post.

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JUNE 24, 2021

New York City’s police department, the largest in the United States, will train all 35,000 of its officers in de-escalation techniques, using the Police Executive Research Forum’s Integrating Communications, Assessment and Tactics (ICAT) approach to reduce violent encounters and injuries to both officers and citizens, reports the Washington Post.

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MARCH 1, 2022

National Guard has been called upon for assistance, along with hundreds of police officers from New York City and Philadelphia, to support federal and local authorities, and the Secret Service, reports the Washington Post. Police Chief Robert J.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 23, 2022

And while cannabis is legal for recreational use in 19 states and Washington, D.C., While the average concentration of THC in cannabis samples seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration was about 4 percent in 1997, and 17 percent in 2017, today’s THC products can in some cases exceed 95 percent. and for medical use in 37 states and D.C.,

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The Crime Report

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Only a handful of states received grades as high as B for their state prison reporting: California, Minnesota, Vermont, Washington and Wisconsin. A report from the COVID, Corrections and Oversight Project at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas shows that few states provide much data publicly.

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MAY 19, 2022

Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) used to gauge someone’s homelessness “vulnerability” — but has since been disowned by its co-creator after studies showed it disadvantaged minorities — is still being used in at least 39 states as well as the District of Columbia , reports the Washington Post.

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AUGUST 23, 2021

This news comes as Portland protesters supporting either the Proud Boys or Antifa clashed on Sunday night, motivated by the one-year anniversary of major clashes in the city, leading to new violence as gunshots rang out throughout the night, reports The Washington Post and the New York Post. .

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

percent in Massachusetts to more than 8 percent in Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee, while Vermont, Maine, and Washington, D.C. ” Disenfranchisement rates range from 0.15 remain the sole jurisdictions that actually allow people in prison to vote. Florida has the highest number of disenfranchised citizens, with more than 1.1

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

New York, New Jersey, California, Michigan, Maryland, Virginia, Minnesota, and Washington state have increased security and police on campus and, in some cases, closed for the day.

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Over the past six years, officers have fatally shot more than 6,400 people, an average of nearly a thousand a year, or almost three each day, according to the Washington Post, who began tracking these fatal shootings in 2015. In Washington, D.C., The yearly toll reached a new high of 1,021 fatal shootings in 2020.

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The Crime Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

As of August, Washington and 20 states allowed online sports betting, and the association said six states that legalized the practice have yet to launch legal wagering. . and other jurisdictions have stepped up online gambling enforcement, but the U.S hasn’t added more watchful eyes to the industry yet. . .

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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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MARCH 1, 2022

The House has overwhelmingly approved the Emmett Till Antilynching Act , which would make lynching a federal hate crime punishable by up to 30 years in prison, reports the Washington Post. In a change from the 2020 measure, which ultimately went nowhere after it was held up by Sen.

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MARCH 21, 2022

A report by the American Academy of Pediatrics found that, by age 16, more than two in three children had said they had experienced a traumatic event.

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JUNE 28, 2023

On Tuesday, activists marched in Washington, D.C. State Senator Vernon Sykes, (D-Akron), echoed his daughter’s call for an investigation on Tuesday in a statement standing with those marching in Washington, D.C. on the one-year anniversary of the death of Jayland Walker.

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The Crime Report

JUNE 27, 2022

For the sake of civilian safety, police must intervene if they see misconduct by colleagues,, according to a forthcoming paper in the George Washington Law Review. Kaufman, who is also a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Washington University in St.

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The Crime Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

An Associated Press review of internal investigative records and newly obtained videos identified at least a dozen cases over the past decade in which Louisiana State Police Troopers or their bosses ignored or concealed evidence of beatings, deflected blame and impeded efforts to root out misconduct, reports the Washington Post.

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