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To Serve and Protect Whom?
Police officers shoot and kill an unarmed black man. We’ve all read and heard this script ad nauseam, to the extent that when it resurfaces we are no longer surprised; we’re immune to a certain...
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What Types of Crimes Put You at Risk of Losing Your Immigration Status?
No nation on Earth is associated with immigration more profoundly than the United States. That born Americans will proudly rattle off laundry lists of ethnic backgrounds is a testament to the “melting...
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The Impact of Stop & Frisk on Undocumented Residents
The phrase “illegal alien” is a favorite of newscasters and journalists, but in hard legalese, no such phrase exists. What “illegal alien” refers to, legally speaking, is something called an...
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The Impact of Financial Crime: Effects on Policies & Industry
The nature of financial crimes may not have changed much in the last century, but the specifics could not be more radically different. Some modern financial crimes are rising in frequency at a rate...
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Six of the Most Prosecuted Cyber Crimes
We all spend a surprising amount of time on the internet these days. Our virtual world has quickly replaced the natural world in some ways. So it’s not surprising to realize crimes happen right...
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Online Con Artists: Six of the Scariest Scams of 2015
As technology evolves, so do the criminals and scammers who use it. In the past year, several online scams made headlines, from the use of online dating services, to gift cash, to conning Facebook...
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The Stats Are In: The Criminal Justice System Needs More Data
You can never truly tell how well a system works if you don’t have the statistics to back it up. Unfortunately, one of the most important systems in the United States is severely lacking in usable...
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4 Things Big Cities Can Do to Clean up Their “Bad Side” of Town
One of the most prevalent theories in creating safer neighborhoods is the “broken windows theory” which suggests that cleaner and nicer looking neighborhoods deter crime. It’s a notion that’s been...
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