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Sex Crimes Rise On ‘Net; Is Detection Working?


The number of offenders sexually exploiting children, particularly through pornography, has skyrocketed with the Internet, reports the Baltimore Sun. That has led to a more than 20-fold increase in cases investigated since the late 1980s and an even bigger jump in those prosecuted at the federal level. Law enforcers are focused on the problem like never before. But are the strategies working?

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Top 5 Of Black Homicide: PA, MI, IN, NV, KS
Kansas has the fourth-highest per capita rate of black homicide victims in the country, according to an analysis of FBI data by a national gun-control advocacy group. It’s the first time in the three years the Washington, D.C.-based Violence Policy Center has released the study that Kansas has been in the top five, reports the Wichita Eagle. Pennsylvania has the highest rate, with Michigan, Indiana and Nevada rounding out the top five.

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Is Life For 13-Year-old ‘Cruel And Unusual?’
The New York Times profiles Joe Sullivan, convicted in Florida of raping a 72-year-old woman in 1989, when he was 13. A judge sentenced Sullivan to life without the possibility of parole, saying, “I’m going to send him away for as long as I can.” Sullivan is 33 now, and his lawyers have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether the Eighth Amendment’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment extends to sentencing someone so young to die in prison for rape.




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by Frank Straub, Police Commissoner, City of White Plains, Ph.D.



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