Doesn’t it seem like every day some crazy story involving a police officer is in the headlines? As of late it seems to have been the authorities themselves giving somebody grief; but now, the “shoe is on the other foot” so to speak, as an Oklahoma City police officer found himself under arrest Thursday and […]
Seth Jackson, 29, of Wichita, Kansas has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 10-month-old foster child, a girl the family called Anna.…
The FBI has arrested six Philadelphia Police narcotics officers as part of a corruption probe into the department. The group is accused of stealing over $500,000…
Some people simply adore their Apple products. The iconic retailer has taken over the tech marketplace with iPhones, Mac computers, and anything else a tech-savvy person could possibly want. But there’s one Apple fan the company is sorry they ever laid eyes on. He’s 24-year-old Sharron Laverne Parrish Jr. The man loves Apple products so much […]
A Brooklyn woman murdered a tenant from her rental property before scattering the body parts all over Long Island. Leah Cuevas is in custody after…
On Friday, Circuit Judge James H. Daniel denied Marissa Alexander’s request for a new Stand Your Ground hearing to seek immunity from prosecution under the law for…
A new study conducted by the Vera Institute of Justice titled, “Race and Prosecution in Manhattan,” revealed that Black and Latino defendants in Manhattan are more likely to…
Every time a black man is shot on the streets of Chicago, I think of my friend, Michele Dowdy, who lost her son to gun violence in 2012 and how justice continues to elude her. Malcom Dowdy, 33, was not in a gang; he was not involved in a fight at the time of the […]
Unfortunately, this news will probably come as no surprise to most. We can only shake our collective heads and be thankful it wasn’t worse. We have reports on two incidents stemming from BET Awards “pre-parties.” The first bit of negative news associated with the BET Experience/Awards weekend in Los Angeles involved a shooting in which one person […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A monthlong national effort to capture sex predators led to 275 arrests in Southern California that included a teaching assistant for special needs kids, a retired sheriff’s deputy and a U.S. Army soldier, authorities said Thursday. The effort dubbed “Operation Broken Heart” involved dozens of local, state and federal authorities throughout […]
Surely the Stockton police department had no idea that posting the photos of several men caught up in a weapons raid would go viral. When Jeremy Meeks, 30 and Terry Bailey, 22 had their mugshots posted on Facebook in a self-congratulatory post by the Stockton Police, their captors were unprepared for the social media response. […]
NEW YORK (AP) — A man believed to have stabbed a 6-year-old boy to death and critically injured a 7-year-old girl in a knife attack in a public housing building elevator that didn’t have security cameras was arrested Wednesday just minutes after the mayor and the police commissioner publicly identified him and appealed for help […]
