Posts tagged as Crime
A Q&A with a 'Daily News' Crime Reporter
For almost a decade straight, Kerry Burke has been reporting on crime for the New York Daily News, primarily homicides—or "murder and mayhem," as he tends to call it. Burke was one of the reporters featured in Bravo's short-lived 2006 reality series "Tabloid Wars," which documented how writers and editors at the Daily News manage to put a great deal of the day's activities into a newspaper that's ready for sale the next morning. It got him a good bit of attention back then; now it's 2012, and he's still at it, contributing stories from all over the city, from waiting for Beyoncé to Occupy Wall Street to, of course, straight-up crime. READ MORE
"Geezer Bandit" Sprightly
"The FBI now thinks the robber, who in one holdup had an oxygen tank with a tube to his nose, may be a younger man wearing a mask and gloves. After the latest of his 16 heists, he sprinted away." READ MORE
A Truly Terrible Story
"The letter on my desk was from a family, a husband and wife. They had written to me after reading a short news article I’d done about a 26-year-old convicted child molester who had been arrested that week and charged with raping a 14-year-old girl. The girl was their daughter. She had been raped by the man two months earlier but had been locked away in juvenile detention for more than a month—longer than her attacker had been in custody." READ MORE
"It is just not a natural or everyday thing to do, to pass judgment on people, to send them to prison or not.”
This is a fascinating profile of the work of Judge Denny Chin, regarding sentencing in criminal cases in Manhattan.
Murder, Suicide And Mayhem In Brooklyn Heights (Yes, Brooklyn Heights!)
Very little happens in Brooklyn Heights. During Truman Capote’s years here, his friends would enquire, “But what do you do over there?” It was a fair question—and an eternal one. Mine wonder the same thing. One pleasure of America’s first suburb is that it is, to an extent unusual in an ever-churning city, impervious to change—economically, structurally, but also in a more fundamental sense: The question, Did anything happen in the Heights today? can almost always be answered with Not much. The news is blessedly mundane: Either a pet is missing or the street’s been sullied by a fallen tree or pothole. READ MORE
Hot Now In Crime: Rhino Horn Theft
"It is a new crime phenomenon targeting people who may not have ordinarily been victims of crime and who are vulnerable victims. And we are not dealing with petty criminals." READ MORE
Pacified America So Much Less Murderous
“The last three years have been a contrarian’s delight—just when you expect the bananas to hit the fan." READ MORE
Epidemic of Looting Terrorizes... the Media
In the wake of the devastation of last week's weather—178 tornadoes in two days! Hundreds dead, many missing—states from Tennessee to Alabama to Texas are beset with looters, we hear. Seven in Ohio! Three in St. Louis! Two in North Carolina! Maybe 20 all told in Alabama! Literally, perhaps three dozens of people have been arrested for looting in the past week. READ MORE
Bill Wasik, So Much To Answer For
You know, in my day "flash mobs" were just a way for like-minded pretentious people to congregate ever so briefly in celebration of how much more special and precious they were than the dead-eyed commuters and consumers all around them. It's sad to see something that started out with such lofty ideals degrade into criminal activity. You thugs are totally destroying the spirit of '03!
Walking While Brown in New York City
In 2009, "490,000 blacks and Latinos were stopped by the police on the streets, compared with 53,000 whites." 6% of those stops resulted in arrests. In Brownsville, "Men between 15 and 34 in the area were stopped an average of five times"—that means that "the police made over 52,000 stops between 2006 and 2010 in one eight-block neighborhood with a total population of only 14,000." READ MORE
