To round up wandering kids in an effort to combat mobs of roving teens. From the Sun: Baltimore’s curfew center began four years ago — a collaborative effort among police, the school system and social services — to get kids off the street and away from potential harm. Their work has taken on a new…
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I just like the headline. And no, sex is not a crime… even on duty (though it should be an admin issue). Update:He got fired.
The mayor says there were 45 arrests in New York City last night compared to 345 arrests on a normal August Saturday night. Mayor Bloomberg said, “If that doesn’t tell you about New Yorkers, I don’t know what does.” That’s sweet. Now don’t get me wrong, it’s good there wasn’t massive looting, and New York…
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Ronald Weitzer tries to dispel the myths of human trafficking.
From the New York Times: “The Feast of San Jeronimo: How it is observed by the Indians of Taos (from the Denver Tribune) After the racing was over a gang of reckless fellows strolled around the plaza with apparently perfect license to do as they pleased. They walked along paying, seemingly, no attention to the…
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In Germantown, Montgomery County, Maryland. Anybody got any ideas how to prevent this? Is it possible to lock everybody insidethe store? Certainly if catch one of the kids, it would be pretty easy to get them to snitch. But then what? It would take a lot of police work simply to bring shoplifing charges against…
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In an attempt to get health care. What a country! I am curious to see how this will play out. He probably won’t be sentenced to the three years he wants. Will he then commit more crime? And he might disappointed about the quality of health care in prison. But it is better than nothing.
How about that? Maybe that guy in 1996 at the Abbey Lounge in Somerville wasn’t him after all. The Timesarticle leaves out the details regarding his relationship with his younger brother, who was a long time state representative and then President of of the University of Massachusetts. If my older brother was on the lam,…
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Americans riot when their team wins. Canadians riot when they lose. There’s video of two police cars being torched in Vancouver. There was some pretty hard-core looting and dozens of injuries. But even their riots seem relatively polite. Apparently, nobody was shot. From the Vancouver Province: Just after 11 p.m., in the aftermath of violence,…
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This must have been one of the easiest suspect-IDs in world history: Bangladeshi woman cuts off rapist’s penis and gives it to police.