Criminal Justice
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There Was Another Mass Shooting This Weekend But No One Cares
“Black” is a magical word. Black is an adjective. Black is a noun. It is a verb, an adverb, pronoun, preposition … It is all the parts of speech in one. Yes, “black “ is a magical thing. In America, that simple word can render a thing invisible. It can make a whole human disappear…
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Why Does Violence in Chicago Attract So Much Attention, Even Though It's Not the Murder Capital of The U.S.?
It is no longer news that the violence that plagued Chicago during the Aug. 3 weekend was one of the deadliest weekends in the past two years in the city, ending in a spree of gun violence that left 74 people shot, including 12 dead. In almost predictable fashion, news media picked up the story…
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Michigan Director of Health and Human Services to Stand Trial for Involuntary Manslaughter Over Flint Deaths
Flint, Mich., still doesn’t have clean water and as the fallout and repercussions of the scandal continue, on Monday, a judge ordered Nick Lyon, the director of Michigan’s Health and Human Services Department, to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter relating to the 2015 deaths of two men from Legionnaires Disease. According to the Associated Press,…
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Somebody Jacked Almost $100,000 Worth of Ramen Noodles From a Gas Station in Georgia and It Made My Heart Flutter
I don’t typically smile at crime. In fact, I typically frown at crime. Crime, bad. Who’s bad? Crime. That’s how I feel, for real. But every now and then, some crime happens that doesn’t make me frown, it turns my frown upside down. The news about a ramen noodle heist in Georgia did just that.…