May 21st, 2012
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May 21st, 2012
Houston CPS force 3-year-old to take overprescribed psychotropic drugs Texas is one of 5 states where children in foster care are often targeted by psychotropic drugs. Randy Wallace My Fox May 18, 2012 HOUSTON (FOX 26) — Here’s 4-year-old Rachel Harrison before Child Protective Services took her away from her parents. … "And as a parent it’s very hard to deal with because your baby’s in trouble and you can’t do anything to help," said Rachel’s mother Christina Harrison. Watch as the bubbly little girl starts looking more like some neglected waif while under CPS’s care. "She was never abused or neglected in any way except by CPS," said Debbie Flores, Rachel’s grandmother. www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv twitter.com www.facebook.com
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May 21st, 2012
By Andrew Barksdale
Staff writer
Crime and blight have begun to creep back into the B Street area on the outskirts of downtown since Fayetteville police stopped an intensive campaign to clean up the neighborhood, a community watch leader says.
Gena Johnson, who coordinates the neighborhood’s community watch, said the ramped-up police patrols and arrests that began in the fall of 2008 were a godsend.
“It was like going into a house and seeing the roaches run,” the 60-year-old said, rocking on her front porch where she hangs ferns and feeds feral cats.
But when police left about a year later to target another neighborhood, the prostitutes and drug dealers – once all too common – started to return, Johnson said.
“There’s some big drug dealers that come through here,” she said.
The community of short streets, around Pauline Jones Elementary School off Grove Street, was the focus of the Police Department’s novel initiative that aimed to reclaim the neighborhood. The collaborative effort involved several city departments and community meetings with residents, church leaders and nearby business owners. Abandoned houses were knocked down, and discarded furniture and other trash left outside were picked up.
The city moved the intensive effort to Bonnie Doone off Bragg Boulevard in 2010, and last month officials announced they would target two smaller areas next: Bunce Road, which is off Cliffdale Road; and Jasper Street, which intersects Murchison Road next to a small market.
Police have touted the B Street model as a successful way to rehabilitate a neighborhood that has grappled with crime and eyesores for decades. Police Chief Tom Bergamine made the initiative a cornerstone in his 2009 community wellness plan in response to a spike in citywide crime the year before. His plan seeks to lower crime through several police programs and policy initiatives.
But Johnson’s concerns raise questions about the long-term effectiveness of the B Street initiative and how police can help prevent a neighborhood relapse.
Gavin MacRoberts, a Fayetteville police spokesman, said police acknowledge crime remains a problem in the B Street area, but the levels are nowhere near where they stood before 2008. Police continue to patrol the area.
“We are also looking into complaints of increased crime in the neighborhood,” he said.
According to MacRoberts, the B Street area had almost 900 crimes in fiscal 2008, compared with 363 in fiscal 2010 – the most recent year provided by police.
The Fayetteville Observer used the Police Department’s online crime-mapping software to examine trends for the B Street area over the past 12 months. The newspaper’s review, which encompassed a smaller area than what was originally targeted by police, found a total of 83 larcenies reported during that span. It was the most frequent crime. Drug offenses were second with 47 cases. The area also saw 13 burglaries, 10 robberies and three prostitution offenses, among other crimes.
Johnson, who has lived in the B Street area all of her life, joined the community watch group four years ago when police began the initiative. She takes drives through the neighborhood in her 1991 Ford pickup, ready to call police if she sees suspicious activity.
“Neighbors are scared to death to call police,” she said, referring to fears of retaliation.
But she’s not. She said she keeps an aluminum bat at home and has two Chihuahuas that bark whenever somebody approaches her chain-link fence.
Councilwoman Kady-Ann Davy, who attends Johnson’s monthly community watch meetings, said residents’ concerns are valid. But she doesn’t believe the neighborhood has badly deteriorated since the police initiative ended.
“I think there have been some strides and improvements,” she said.
She was referring to the formation of the community watch group and the demolition of troublesome rental properties that attracted crime.
Both efforts are part of a long-term strategy for the program, MacRoberts said.
He said the city’s new rental housing program, which is scheduled to get under way this summer, could “help keep things from getting back to the way things were before.”
Under the program, landlords can be fined $1,000 if their properties or tenants attract too much crime and blight.
Davy said police should develop a better transition plan for when they move from one neighborhood to the next. Maybe set up a mobile command post to respond to occasional spikes in crime, she said.
MacRoberts said the department’s mobile command post “is a tactic that we have used in the past, but it is only a temporary solution. In our experience, crime returns as soon as the mobile command post has left the area.”
More effective ways to deal with spikes in crimes, he said, are high-visibility patrols and working closely with community watch groups.
Police and city officials have begun to scope out the next two target areas, which were chosen because of their high levels of crime and gang activity and large numbers of dilapidated houses, MacRoberts said. Kickoff community meetings in both areas will be announced soon.
Councilwoman Val Applewhite, whose district takes in Bunce Road, has long complained that the area needs more police presence and city resources. The area has numerous code violations, such as overgrown lots and illegally parked tractor-trailers, and it’s not unusual for neighbors to hear gunshots late at night, she said.
“I hope this focus will encourage the citizens to organize a community watch and sustain it,” she said.
Sandra Mitchell, founder of the newly formed Murchison Citizens Action Group, holds monthly meetings of all of the community watches along Murchison Road. She is glad the police will target Jasper Street, where loitering and break-ins are a problem.
“It’s something we need and something we appreciate, and we’ll work right along with them and do whatever needs to be done,” she said.
Staff writer Andrew Barksdale can be reached at barksdalea@fayobserver.com or 486-3565.
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May 21st, 2012
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 12 L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times’ Crime L.A. database.
Five neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Venice (A) was the most unusual, recording five reports compared with a weekly average of 3.0 over the last three months.
Arlington Heights (F) topped the list of seven neighborhoods with property crime alerts. It recorded 12 property crimes compared with its weekly average of 5.9 over the last three months.
Alerts are based on an analysis of crime reports for May 9 to May 15, the most recent seven days for which data are available.
— Ben Welsh, Thomas Suh Lauder
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May 18th, 2012
18 May 2012
Last updated at 19:16 ET
By Paul Henley
BBC News, Bastoey, Norway
There has been a lot of introspection in Norway in the year following the attacks carried out by Anders Behring Breivik.
The country’s justice system has been subject to intensive scrutiny, and foreigners might be forgiven for assuming that public opinion on crime and punishment had hardened.
But according to the junior minister for justice, Kristin Bergersen, it has not.
“I think the debate we are seeing in Norway right now establishes that we have the right values and the right system for punishment here,” she says.
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It is highly unlikely that Breivik will ever set foot on the prison island of Bastoey. Norway does have solitary confinement cells and high-security wings.
But although it is only one, liberal, end of a penal spectrum, the open prison where inmates wander woods, fields and beaches unhindered is still an important symbol of the Norwegian system. Indeed, to many, it is the jewel in its crown.
“Fundamentally, we believe you have to start with prisoner rehabilitation on day one,” Ms Bergersen. “Everybody knows that when you are released in Norway you can be somebody’s neighbour.
“It is in the public interest, when it comes to security, that you receive rehabilitation when you are inside the prison system so that you can go out and lead the life that everybody else takes for granted.”
Bastoey might be seen as the softest option by some. Its inmates are among the most hardened criminals.
Typically, they are serving long sentences – by Norwegian standards – for the most serious crimes.
Murderers and sex offenders of many different races and nationalities are expected to live peacefully together in small chalets that dot the island.
‘In training’
Of course, prisoners who go to Bastoey are carefully selected. Often they are approaching the end of their sentence and release.
In all cases, they are individuals who have decided they could benefit from the lifestyle.
“It’s difficult to say that I like being here,” says Morten, a 29-year-old Danish man serving a sentence of nearly three years. “But I think if this wasn’t a prison, the Norwegian government could rent it out for holidays.
“You are not free, of course. If you tried to escape you would be put back in a normal prison immediately. But if you have to be in prison, this is a good place to be.
“You can do almost whatever you want to. You can walk around the island, play football or hockey or go fishing. In the summer, we have our own beach and you can go there and enjoy the sun.”
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Morten is in the middle of a training session, learning how to cut planks of wood from the tree trunks he and others have felled in the forest.
Next to him, Lamin, a 30-year-old originally from The Gambia, is wielding a large metal hook and a hammer, jamming the logs into position against a circular saw.
“I used to be a boxer,” he says. “I was angry every day, stressed. But since I’ve come here, I am calm and relaxed.
“I feel like I’m in training – practical job training, but also training to be a better person. It’s like a test they are giving me and when I go outside and try to live a normal life I will see if I have passed.”
The atmosphere on the island does seem relaxed, almost to the point of sleepiness. An occasional prisoner in jeans and sweatshirt cycles past fields of grazing sheep. There is not a raised voice.
Domestic pride
For the prison’s governor, Arne Kvernvik-Nilsen, Bastoey is a personal project, the embodiment of an ethos in which he has the belief of the evangelical.
“If this were a holiday camp for criminals, what’s the problem if I can show you the result?” he asks.
The result he refers to is a 16% re-offending rate among former Bastoey inmates. It is by far the lowest in Europe, quite possibly the lowest in the world.
“This island is supposed to be as much as possible like an ordinary small, local Norwegian community. This prison is in many ways the opposite of an ordinary prison. Here, as an inmate, you have to be in charge of your own life, take responsibility.
“I do not believe in this old way of thinking that you should respect me. In order for you to do this, you first have to learn to know what respect is, starting with respect for yourself. Then I can start to talk to you about why you should respect me and my neighbour and your neighbour too.”
It would be hard to attack the prison on grounds of expense. Bastoey is significantly cheaper to run than conventional penal institutions. Its proportion of guards to inmates is much lower.
At night, it is normal for four or five unarmed guards to be in charge of 114 inmates. And costs are kept down by the fact that prisoners are expected to manage so many aspects of their own lives, from rubbish collection to cooking and cleaning.
One tattooed inmate asks for a moment to comb his hair and change into a smarter shirt before he is filmed giving a tour of his living quarters with a touching sense of domestic pride.
Asked if he can cook, he replies: “Of course. All Norwegian men can cook.” The humanising effects of Bastoey have an unnerving tendency to speak for themselves.
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May 18th, 2012
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May 16th, 2012
Thousands of soldiers have been sent to Brazil’s remote Amazonian borders in a government crackdown on illegal mining, drug traffickers and smugglers. Given Brazil’s geography, it is a huge job – Brazil shares borders with 10 countries. Al Jazeera’s Gabriel Elizondo accompanied the military on a mission near the border with French Guyana.
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May 16th, 2012
He’s still around.
Same as it ever was. A few days ago, I noticed that the former mayor had written an epitaph-cum-agitprop for James Wilson’s broken windows theory. I thought about saying something, but (no offense to the Manhattan Institute) didn’t think his piece would make a splash. Now that, via Capital New York, I see the Post has refurbished the same op-ed, just as the stop-and-frisk issue heats up in the imminent mayoral race, I will.
Or rather, I will turn it over to Stephen Metcalf, from this 2006 Slate piece:
Under Giuliani, Broken Windows started out as a good faith effort to reduce serious crime by going after petty crime. But over time it evolved into a branding mechanism, a means for relentlessly associating New York City’s renaissance with Mayor Giuliani’s face. Today, Broken Windows is among the most universally discredited theories in the social sciences. Study after study has concluded there is no causal link between the reduction in nuisance crimes, like turnstile jumping or aggressive panhandling, and the reduction in serious crimes, like robbery and murder. And this was easily inferable at the time. The reduction in New York City’s crime rate was echoed nationally, in many cities that did not employ Quality of Life policing. In retrospect, the principal causes behind New York City’s crime drop had nothing to do with Giuliani. They included: a receding of the ’80s crack epidemic, a growth in the prison population thanks to the so-called Rockefeller drug laws, an increase in the numbers of police initiated by Giuliani’s predecessor, and possibly, as the Freakonomics authors famously argued, the legalization of abortion a generation earlier. But, as the journalist Wayne Barrett says in Giuliani Time, “this mythology that Rudy Giuliani single-handedly supercopped, and conquered, crime in New York City” is now in the “bloodstream” of Americans.
If you prefer hard numbers, dig through this thorough research, from the same year, that dissected the impact of the crime policy under Giuliani himself. It found no evidence that broken windows policing deterred crime or used city resources wisely. Here’s what John Roman, a crime analyst with the Urban Institute, told me when I reported on policing in the fall:
“I can find very little support for the idea that our policies have really affected the crime rates.”
Despite the heady evidence, the Giuliani mythology lives on. Detroit announced it would take Wilson’s theory to its streets in February.
New York’s stop-and-frisk strategy has run rampant with one part of broken windows: targeting the minutiae of urban life to prevent crime. Yesterday, Mayor Emanuel unveiled his crime-fighting plan for Chicago that, at the onset, has two prongs. One is the other half of broken windows—the Quality of Life stuff (clearing vacant lots, cutting weeds and the like). And the other portion commits to building a “social network” for police of “community, faith-based and government resources.”
At this point, it’s uncertain how many resources Chicago will put into each strategy. But the latter one at least has more evidence behind it. And, if executed well, it moves in the exact opposite direction of stop-and-frisk and the Giuliani legacy.
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May 16th, 2012
Crime prevention week is back once again. As summer slowly creeps into Alberta, police have some new priorities when it comes to protecting and serving their communities.
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May 14th, 2012
It was a different sort of week for the cops in the 88th Precinct, with a rare crime inside the Steiner Studios film center and lots of good collars. Of course, there was more crime in the Atlantic Terminal and Atlantic Center malls, and some car thefts and burglaries. It’s all there on our interactive crime map (right), so click on that for the visual summary of the week in crime. Or read all the narratives below the jump.
Celebrity Stiffed
A thief was working the backstage area at a film industry soiree at the Steiner Studios inside the Brooklyn Navy Yard on May 10, cops said.
One of the guests at the “Women and Film” event told police that she had left her wallet in the green room after an organizer told her, “We have security, so it’s perfectly fine.”
When the ingénue returned to the green room after the show, she discovered that her Michael Kors wallet, plus cash and various cards, had been taken.
Teen Terrors
Two youngsters were arrested after beating a 12-year-old girl on North Portland Avenue on May 4.
Cops said that the victim was near Myrtle Avenue at around 5 p.m. when she was attacked by two girls, one 14 and the other 15, who wanted the younger girl’s headphones.
The dastardly duo got away, but was apprehended two days later, cops said.
Cops Arrest 1
Police have arrested a 36-year-old man in the shooting of the father of a crime victim on May 10.
Cops said that the 62-year-old man was shot and seriously wounded after trying to protect his daughter from a chain snatcher near Cuyler Gore Park.
Police said that the man, who is from out of town, was walking with his daughter near the corner of Cumberland Street and Greene Avenue at around 10:38 p.m. when a 20- to 30-year-old man approached from behind and grabbed the daughter’s jewelry.
The father quickly grabbed the thief, who pulled a gun and shot the man once in the stomach.
It is unclear what led to the arrest of Tyron Lovick, 36, but cops collared their suspect the next day.
Glass Pain
A man was arrested after battling with a woman over a pair of expensive sunglasses on May 12 on Fulton Street.
Cops said that the victim was between South Elliott and Fort Greene places at around 4:10 a.m., when she got into a dispute with an unidentified woman. At some point in the dispute, a 37-year-old man intervened, pulling the victim by the hair and stealing her $500 shades.
Cops arrested their suspect 15 minutes later.
Teachable Moment
Someone cleaned out a Brooklyn Technical High School classroom over the May 5 weekend, taking computers and other high-tech equipment.
Authorities said that they showed up on May 7 at the Fort Greene Place school to discover a broken window on a classroom door. Closer inspection revealed that four laptops, an iPhone and a stereo system had been taken.
Computer Rage
It was another busy week for thieves who like to steal computers. Here’s a roundup:
- A thief took a MacBook laptop from a Classon Avenue apartment on May 10, entering the building at Putnam Avenue between 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
- Two laptops were swiped from an apartment on Grand Avenue between Putnam and Gates Avenues on May 11. The resident said that she was not around between 8 a.m. and 2 p.m. when she returned home to find the laptops and a cellphone missing. Another tenant in the same building was burglarized at the same time, losing a camera and a MacBook Air.
Copper Topped
Thieves swiped thousands of dollars worth of copper pipes earlier this month from a Vanderbilt Avenue building that’s undergoing a massive renovation.
Workers noticed on May 11 that 10-foot-long pipes were missing from the job site. Cops estimate that the metal is worth $6,000.
With This Ring
A thief was caught gold handed after taking a ring from a church-goer at Emmanuel Baptist on Lafayette Avenue on May 12.
Cops said that the suspect, Junior Parada, was caught inside the church at around 8 a.m. When questioned about his furtive movements, Mr. Parada said, “I took this ring from the church,” police claim.
Catalyzed — Again!
For the third straight week, a thief has stolen a piece of a driver’s muffler system.
The latest catalytic converter swipe occurred overnight on May 6 on Lefferts Place, police said. The victim told cops that he had parked at around 4 p.m. between Saint James Place and Grand Avenue, but when he started up his 2006 Honda the next morning, it was making weird noises.
More Mall Rats
A thief stole a wallet from a shopper inside the crime-riddled Target department store in the Atlantic Terminal Mall on May 8.
The victim told cops that she had been shopping inside the store at around 6:20 p.m. when a pickpocket swiped the wallet — and with it various credit cards.
The thief tried to use the credit cards at a nearby Applebee’s and in a Metrocard machine, but failed. But the villain was more successful at the Macy’s on Fulton Street, where he or she rang up more than $1,000 in purchases, cops said.
Bathroom Break
A thief waited until an Atlantic Center Mall customer was in the bathroom before he or she stole an iPhone and wallet from the shopper’s baby stroller on May 10.
The victim told cops that she was stopping at the crime-addled mall on Atlantic Avenue at around 4:30 p.m. when she needed some restroom relief. After conducting her business, she returned to the hallway to discover that someone had taken her phone and wallet.
Dead Presidents
Someone stole $2,000 from an unattended office inside a Myrtle Avenue building overnight on May 9.
The victim said that he left the cash in a drawer inside the building at Clermont Avenue at around 7:30 p.m. and returned 24 hours later to find the cash gone.
Motor Madness
At least three motorized vehicles were swiped last week:
- A thief stole a Yamaha motorcycle that had been chained up outside a building on North Portland Avenue near Park Avenue in the Whitman Houses on May 6.
- A 2006 Infinity was taken from Fulton Street near Atlantic Commons sometime between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. on May 9.
- A rented U-Haul van was stolen from Downing Street near Quincy Street overnight on May 11.
Gersh Kuntzman joined The Local in January, 2012 after stints as a reporter at The New York Post and editor of The Brooklyn Paper. Follow him on Twitter @gershkuntzman.
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