Minority Report: Precrime policing isn't just a sci-fi movie anymore - The Strident Conservative ™ The sci-fi movie Minority Report tells the story of a dystopian future where a special “Precrime” policing unit has been created in Washington D.C. to prevent crimes before they happen.
Tapping into the psychic talents of “Precognitives” (Precogs) capable of predicting murders before they occurred, law enforcement would use those predictions to arrest murderers before they committed their crimes. Unfortunately for gun owners and lovers of liberty, precrime policing isn’t just a sci-fi movie anymore. In yesterday’s article, I shared with you how Republican leadership was preparing to cave to the Far-left gun control agenda.
I based my conclusions on the past four-to-five years of anti-Second Amendment activity under the “leadership” of Donald Trump and the Republican Party. San Francisco, Hostage to the Homeless. Everyone’s on drugs here . . . and stealing,” an ex-felon named Shaku explains as he rips open a blue Popsicle wrapper with his teeth.
Shaku is standing in an encampment of tents, trash, and bicycles, across from San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church. Analyzing the Newly Released 2018 FBI Homicide Data - The Meme Policeman. Notes The crime statistics were released for 2018 last week by the FBI.
They measure a broad range of different crimes, but here we’ll primarily focus on the homicide data. There are many narratives that could be crafted with these numbers. Often completely different narratives can be created with the exact same data, as I’ll show in each section below. As always, it’s important to understand the full context and have the ability to look at the data yourself, to keep from being mislead by media reports or memes. All statistics come from the various tables within the FBI’s 2018 report, and when relevant the change from the prior year includes data from the 2017 report. Total Homicide Victims. Bank robber-turned-law professor argues importance of 'second chances' for Louisiana prisoners. Shon Hopwood landed in federal prison as a young man after participating in several bank robberies across rural Nebraska.
Now he's a practicing attorney and professor at Georgetown Law School. Hopwood related the tale of his transformation Friday to hundreds of people at Baton Rouge's L'Auberge Casino during a seminar focused on boosting opportunities for former Louisiana prisoners transitioning back into society. Hopwood's legal career launched unexpectedly when he started working in the prison law library, not because of any special interest in the law. He eventually started reading legal texts and filing briefs on behalf of his fellow prisoners.
The creator of this social media app wants prisoners to stay connected to their families. As a teenager, Marcus Bullock had a lot going for him.
He was raised in church by a doting mother. He was tall and sturdy, and a standout on the basketball courts in his hometown of Washington, D.C. Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform. A worrisome practice known as civil asset forfeiture allows police officers to seize a person’s property even if she didn’t commit a crime.
What is civil asset forfeiture? Civil asset forfeiture is a practice that allows law enforcement to seize property and take possession of it based merely on the belief that the property may have been involved in a crime. Under civil asset forfeiture, law enforcement is authorized to take the property without beginning criminal proceedings against a defendant. Why is this considered legal? Who Needs Facts When Female Feelings Will Do? - Minding The Campus. Three Years on Rikers Without Trial. Is Marijuana as Safe as We Think? A few years ago, the National Academy of Medicine convened a panel of sixteen leading medical experts to analyze the scientific literature on cannabis.
The report they prepared, which came out in January of 2017, runs to four hundred and sixty-eight pages. It contains no bombshells or surprises, which perhaps explains why it went largely unnoticed. It simply stated, over and over again, that a drug North Americans have become enthusiastic about remains a mystery. Rollingstone. How Video Cameras Tamed the Infamous Attica Prison. Unlocked Futures Helps Social Entrepreneurs Put Prison Pasts Behind Them. These social entrepreneurs aren’t just working to reform the criminal justice system ― they’re a product of it too.
America’s criminal justice system currently houses more than 2 million people — that’s more per capita than any other nation on earth. Even worse: Many are repeat offenders who haven’t been offered the support or resources to get their lives back on track once released. This, along with the stigma attached to a criminal record, has a devastating effect on their job prospects, with an estimated 60 percent still out of work one year after release. A new initiative, backed in part by the singer John Legend, is hoping to reverse those dire statistics. VOLUME 1 – REFORMING CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
Overcriminalization Douglas Husak, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University Overfederalization Stephen F.
Smith, Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame Misdemeanors Alexandra Natapoff, Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine Drug Prohibition and Violence Jeffrey A. Marijuana Legalization Alex Kreit, Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Criminal Law and Policy, Thomas Jefferson School of Law Sexual Offenses Robert Weisberg, Edwin E. Firearms and Violence. Rikers Island teen scholar Pedro Hernandez set for bail release. A Bronx honors student locked up for more than a year on Rikers Island for a crime he says he didn’t commit will be released on bail Thursday thanks to a big-hearted nonprofit group.
Pedro Hernandez, 17, has languished at Rikers in a case that has drawn comparisons to Kalief Browder’s, whose jail stay led him to commit suicide. Alarmed by Hernandez’s plight, the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights group has agreed to post his $100,000 bail. The human rights advocacy organization stepped up just in time.