Category: Crime

  • Rippin' The Gub'mint A New One (again)

    Frostpaw here, reaching out a chilly, razor-clawed mitt to rip the shriveled testicles off the current Administration and its attendant Political Machine. But in a way that doesn’t get her pawsies mussed, and one in which you all can participate, that helps the entire planet. If you don’t yet know about BioGems, get yourself over […]

  • Police Intimidation in Miami-Dade and Brown Counties

    Undercover reporters went to go and see what happens when they ask for a complain form at Miami police stations. In the I-team’s undercover investigation, there was one incident in which our tester went in to file a complaint. After several times asking for a form, being told “you’re not leaving without a form,” he […]

  • Virginia Police Allowed to Have Sex With Hooker – Before They Arrest Them

    (via Plastic) Sheriff’s deputies in Spotsylvania County, Virginia can say they’ve been fighting crime, body and soul, especially with their bodies. Particularly when the crime they’re fighting is prostitution. Despite the disapproval of the county Board of Supervisors, and derision of bloggers and radio talk show hosts, Sheriff Howard Smith contended his men will continue […]

  • Steven Colbert on Capital Punishment

    Just on the Colbert Report: As for my own Catholic Church’s stance on the capital punishment, they wouldn’t even have a religion if it weren’t for the death penalty. 

  • UK Airports Used in CIA Kidnappings and Torture

    Times Online: Eleven police forces were today threatened with legal action if they fail to investigate allegations that UK airports are being used as secret stop-overs by CIA jets transferring terror suspects to torture camps.

  • Kansas Supreme Court ruled on Friday that homosexuals cannot be treated differently.

    In what conservative homophobes decry as another instance of judicual activism, the Kansas Supreme Court unanimously struck down a state law that punished underage sex more severely if it involved homosexual acts, saying "moral disapproval" of such conduct is not enough to justify the different treatment.

  • Sex Offenders Banned from Hurricane Shelters in Florida

    This is getting a little on the ridiculous side: They can go to a prison if their evacuation address given to authorities can’t be used or is deemed unacceptable, Cunningham said. He did not know how many sex offenders could be affected. The policy took effect at the beginning of hurricane season, June 1. Six […]

  • Sven Gets Mugged

    What the hell is wrong with people: I remember thinking, "Why are they wearing their shirts over their faces? I would hardly consider that fashion forward. Is there a SARS epidemic going on?" In retrospect, how dumb. First, I heard the footsteps. I turned around only to get hit in the head. It all happened […]

  • ChicagoCrime.org

    I just added a new link under Chicago weather that links to the ChicagoCrime.org profile for my neighborhood so you can see what crimes have gone down in my neck of the woods. This is an amazing site that extracts crime rates, types, locations and dates from publicly available databases. In the future this will […]

  • Li'L Kim Sentenced to 1 Year in Prison

    As if prison time wasn’t bad enough, she also has to pay a $50,000 fine and serve 3-years of probation after she gets out of prison. She must surrender herself by September 19th. It could have been worse, she was eligible for a 20 year prison sentence.