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Posted on Feb 8, 2017 By Admin
The New York times recently recounted a 2013 case, in which a Kansas man pled guilty to possessing and sending child pornography. The plea came after failed attempts to suppress the ...
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Posted on Jan 18, 2017 By Admin
The Cop in Your Pocket It’s 2017, and more devices than ever are connected to the internet. And beyond that, many these devices also have the capacity to collect personal information, spoken ...
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Posted on Jan 10, 2017 By Admin
It’s usually the climax of the Law and Order episode—the suspect is being taken into custody while the protagonist detective reads them their rights. Most of us can recite it by heart: ...
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Posted on Jan 5, 2017 By Admin
The peaceful transition of power is a point of pride in American political history. Rather than a series of militarist leaders vying for control, one ousting another from power with the force of a ...
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Posted on Dec 5, 2016 By Admin
The beginning of December in Chicago tolls a more somber bell than simply the start of the holiday season. As the month began, there had been more than 700 murders in the city since the beginning of ...
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Posted on Nov 21, 2016 By Admin
As of October 2016, police have recovered 7,224 guns in the city of Chicago. That's up 21% from the same period last year and highlights the quantity of guns in circulation on Chicago streets. ...
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Posted on Nov 9, 2016 By Admin
Victims of sexual assault who dare to bring their experiences public almost always face a long, frustrating legal battle. After the grief, anger, hurt, and shame of being sexually assaulted, women and ...
Continue reading "Cosby Rape Allegations Spur Change for Victims' Rights" »
Posted on Oct 29, 2016 By Admin
Virtual Face Recognition Impacts More Citizens than Criminals Face recognition software is used every single day across the country to help law enforcement identify and catch criminals. The FBI has ...
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Posted on Oct 26, 2016 By Admin
Chicago is a beautiful, proud city, but in recent years, it’s seen more than its fair share of heartache. A narrowly-avoided teacher strike. High crime rates. Record murders. 125,000 homeless ...
Continue reading "Chicago Budget Can't Keep Pace with Police Lawsuits" »
Posted on Oct 26, 2016 By Admin
Rhetoric and politics have held America's attention firmly to the south. Our shared border with Mexico, while closely guarded, is an all-too-common avenue for illicit activity. The trafficking of ...
Continue reading "All Eyes on Mexico While Smugglers Flock to the Northern Border" »
Posted on Oct 20, 2016 By Admin
“ Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, ...
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Posted on Oct 18, 2016 By Admin
Gun ownership in America has a history spanning hundreds of years, but the pictures painted by both the NRA and its pro-regulation political opposition may not tell the whole story. The proliferation ...
Continue reading "The Changing Face of American Gun Ownership" »
Posted on Oct 6, 2016 By Admin
Black Americans are much more likely to be incarcerated than white Americans. They're more likely to be pulled over, too. And arrested. And when they do get arrested, their sentences tend to be ...
Continue reading "Is the American Criminal Justice System Racist?" »
Posted on Sep 30, 2016 By Admin
Police Databases See Frequent Shady Searches Law enforcement databases compile extremely personal information about US citizens. Things like photos, motor vehicle records, birth dates, and criminal ...
Continue reading "Investigation Shows Police Regularly Abuse Records Databases" »
Posted on Sep 20, 2016 By Admin
A former daycare worker, convicted of murder in the 2009 death of a toddler under her care, may have the verdict reversed on her guilt. Melissa Calusinski, who was only 22 at the time of the alleged ...
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Posted on Sep 13, 2016 By Admin
It has been nearly two years since Laquan McDonald was fatally shot by a police officer on the streets of Southwest Chicago. On October 20 th, 2014, Officer Jason Van Dyke shot the seventeen-year-old ...
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Posted on Sep 10, 2016 By Admin
The criminal justice system aims to be representative of the ultimate in fairness. A determinant of truth, beacon of righteousness. Defending the innocent from painful subjugation. Sentencing the ...
Continue reading "White House Concludes Bite Mark Analysis is Unscientific" »
Posted on Sep 7, 2016 By Admin
Chicago saw 90 homicides in August —that's a shocking rate of three every single day. This dramatic month of violence close out the worst summer Chicagoans have faced in more than a decade. ...
Continue reading "Chicago Violence Spurs Emanuel to Hire Hundreds of Cops" »
Posted on Sep 1, 2016 By Admin
An Illinois man is facing nine months in prison on charges of felony computer hacking. Exactly two years ago, 4chan became host to nearly 500 images of celebrities—largely of women, many of them ...
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Posted on Aug 31, 2016 By Admin
The past month has been Chicago’s deadliest in nearly twenty years. August 2016 saw at least 78 homicides—rivaling the 79 recorded in October of 1997. In the past weekend alone, 67 ...
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Posted on Aug 31, 2016 By Admin
The FBI stands accused of intentionally distributing child pornography. Between February 20th and March 4th, 2015, the Federal Bureau of Investigation ran a “dark web” child porn site ...
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Posted on Aug 29, 2016 By Admin
New Law Introduces Time Limits to Cases of Financial Exploitation of the Elderly In Illinois, Governor Bruce Rauner last week signed a bill that extends the time period in which a charge can be ...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2016 By Admin
Tyjuan Lewis was killed nearly one year ago, and his family is still searching for answers. Tyjaun's sister Cynthia reaches out to detectives every two weeks, hoping for new information about the ...
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Posted on Mar 31, 2015 By Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
Four teens from Joliet are in custody and facing child pornography charges after they taped themselves having sex, and one of the teens decided to post the 10-minute video to Twitter, according to ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2015 By Law Offices of Michael P. Schmiege
On Thursday, a biology student attending the University of Illinois of Chicago was cleared of a rape charge by a Cook County judge in a case that has been compared to the film "50 Shades of ...
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