Violent Crime

Violent crime is a term used to describe any crime that involves the use of physical force or the threat of physical force. Examples of violent crimes include murder, assault, robbery, and sexual assault. These crimes can have serious and lasting effects on victims, their families, and their communities. In general, the rate of violent crime varies across different countries and regions, and can be influenced by a number of factors, including poverty, lack of education, and the availability of weapons.

 

 

What’s at stake in the 2022 midterm election? Here’s everything to watch before Election Day.
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What’s at stake in the 2022 midterm election? Here’s everything to watch before Election Day.

Midterm elections: How they work and why they’re important This year’s midterms are the first chance for Americans to grade Joe Biden and congressional Democrats on how they’ve been running the country for the past two years. Typically midterms don’t go well for the party in power, and Democrats are defending razor-thin majorities in Congress, as one-third of…

‘A vestige of slavery’: Why advocates are fighting to make prison labor voluntary
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‘A vestige of slavery’: Why advocates are fighting to make prison labor voluntary

Prisoners making license plates is a popular stereotype, but most of the nation’s 800,000 incarcerated workers hold jobs more similar to those on the outside: They cook and serve food, mop floors, mow lawns, and cut hair. Unlike other workers, though, the incarcerated have little say, if any, in what jobs they do. They face…

For decades, Mass. attorneys general have tried to expand the state’s wiretap law.
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For decades, Mass. attorneys general have tried to expand the state’s wiretap law.

Massachusetts attorneys general have for decades pushed the state to modernize its 1968 wiretap law, which limits electronic surveillance to cases tied to organized crime. Attorney General Maura Healey and several of her recent predecessors have unsuccessfully called on the Legislature to broaden the law’s reach beyond suspected organized crime figures, to make it easier…

U.S. Attorney on Human Trafficking in Alabama – Birmingham Times
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U.S. Attorney on Human Trafficking in Alabama – Birmingham Times

By Ryan Michaels The Birmingham Times The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Investigations says 34 arrests were made for commercial sex and six arrests for human trafficking during The World Games, which ended Sunday in Birmingham. The task force also made eight arrests of adults seeking online enticement of a minor and/or traveling to meet a…

FBI: El Paso is major human smuggling, kidnapping destination | Texas – The Center Square
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FBI: El Paso is major human smuggling, kidnapping destination | Texas – The Center Square

(The Center Square) – El Paso, Texas, is a central destination for human smuggling and extortion, the FBI El Paso Field Office warns. The FBI has been issuing warnings and alerts nearly every month this year about kidnapping and extortion crimes occurring in the border town. [Editor’s note: Human smuggling is not human trafficking! They…

Hampton Roads is especially vulnerable to human trafficking. Lawmakers and advocates are working to fight it and help survivors. – The Virginian-Pilot
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Hampton Roads is especially vulnerable to human trafficking. Lawmakers and advocates are working to fight it and help survivors. – The Virginian-Pilot

As a child, Sarah-Beth Evans said she was trafficked in plain sight. She went to school, took part in extracurricular activities and lived in a small rural town where many people knew her name. But she said no one realized she was a victim of sex trafficking by a family member. Evans, who now resides…

Four Members and Associates of Reading Boarding House Sex Trafficking
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Four Members and Associates of Reading Boarding House Sex Trafficking

PHILADELPHIA – United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that four individuals from Reading, PA, were convicted at trial of offenses including conspiracy to participate in a racketeering enterprise; conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force, fraud, and coercion of a minor; various violent crimes in aid of racketeering offenses including kidnapping and assaults with…

FBI tips to help protect children from human trafficking | newswest9.com
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FBI tips to help protect children from human trafficking | newswest9.com

The FBI said that parents need to have open and honest communication with their kids about the dangers that going online can pose. MIDLAND, Texas — Finding children who have either run away or been trafficked is becoming a bigger concern for law enforcement. It was just a few days ago that 70 children were…

Labor-Trafficking Lawsuit Against Iowa College
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Labor-Trafficking Lawsuit Against Iowa College

Click a link below to jump to a particular article or scroll down to read the whole blog post. Labor-Trafficking Lawsuit Against Iowa College Safe Harbor/Expungement HF 2464 Stalls in Iowa Senate 200 Attend Iowa Human Trafficking Summit Minnesota Makes Sex Trafficking a Violent Crime Recreation Vehicle (RV) Owners to Organize Against Trafficking Recent News…