racial profiling
Racial profiling in law enforcement is a deep-rooted issue with far-reaching ramifications; voice your take on 'broken-windows' policing and controversies surrounding race and crime.
Why A Woman Married A Serial Killer (The Nightstalker)
In the balmy heat of a California summer’s night in 1985, the man known as the Nightstalker slides himself through an open window of a house. He walks into a bedroom room and fires his 25-calibre handgun five times into the body of a sleeping man. Three bullets hit the man’s head, one glances off his thumb, and the other bursts the waterbed he’s sleeping on. The Nightstalker walks into another room and grabs the man’s girlfriend, binding her hands with the now-dying man’s tie. When she looks into his dark eyes, she swears she sees the devil incarnate.
Jayveer ValaPublished 13 days ago in Criminal
A Thin Blue Line
"To be a police officer means to believe in the law and to enforce it impartially respecting the equality of all men and the dignity and worth of every individual. Every day, your life will be on the line and also your character. You'll need integrity, courage, honesty compassion, courtesy and perseverance and patience. You men are now prepared to join the war against crime and put the theory you have learned into practice in the streets" (Serpico, 03:48-04:27). As mentioned in this quote, the heart of policing the streets of any city or state lies in the ability to judge impartially.
theawkwardestwriterPublished 15 days ago in CriminalIf You’re White, You’re Living in a Bubble
Thoughts on Racism: The human brain is designed to process more information about other people than we can consciously perceive.
Dhanush KaluvalaPublished 21 days ago in CriminalTimeline of Central Park Jogger Case
April 19, 1989: after 9pm, a group of 33 teenagers went into Central Park at 110th Street and 5th Avenue for the purpose of beating and robbing people in the park – an activity known as “wilding.”As the group traveled south through the park, they harassed and assaulted random people they encountered. At least seven men – joggers, walkers, and bikers – were attacked by the group between 9pm and 10pm. Two of the men had such serious head injuries that they were hospitalized. As the group was rioting through the park, different people who saw them or who were harassed by them notified the police. Central Park police officers began searching for the group, traveling to the last destination where the group had reportedly been. And the young men, seeing approaching police lights, retreated into the darkness and behind trees to avoid the police. Finally, at almost 10pm, the group left the park at West 96th Street. The Central Park police officers, unable to find the youths, also left the park and immediately saw a large number of young men walking north on Central Park West. The officers tried to detain the group, but the young men scattered – some running west and others jumping the wall and running back into Central Park. Five of the teens – including KEVIN RICHARDSON and RAYMOND SANTANA were arrested in or adjacent to Central Park, shortly after the last assault and robbery occurred. The rest of the group fled. At the time, the group was intercepted, the police did not yet know that a female jogger had been raped, beaten, and left for dead in the woods north of the 102nd Street transverse. The police were interviewing the young men who had been apprehended and preparing paper work to charge them with the assaults and robberies for the crimes against the male victims.
Gladys W. MuturiPublished 24 days ago in Criminal
Good Cop Bad Cop Psycho Cop
The George Floyd catastrophe was not an arrest so much as it was a crime in progress. From the beginning, the encounter between Floyd and the Minneapolis Police Department disintegrated rapidly, and it culminated in Floyd’s death. A cluster of complicated factors, including officer complicity and the phenomenon known as contempt of cop, played into the debacle, with race looming over the entire encounter like a miasmic cloud. Taken together, these factors solidified themselves into a gordian knot of police mistakes that ended in murder and the launch of the Black Lives Matter movement.
L. Erin GiangiacomoPublished about a month ago in CriminalFreedom and The Economic Democracy Act
George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, and Donald J. Trump (among others, i.e. the 1%) are “independently wealthy.” That is to say, they never DEPEND on an employer or the government for their financial wherewithal. They own so much wealth producing capital that they can live off their dividends without ever having to consider taking a job, going to work, or punching a time-clock. Instead, they are effectively FREE to do what they want to do with their days, weeks, months, years, and their lives. That includes running for President of the United States if and when they simply choose to do so.
If You Think Scottsboro Boys & Central Park Five were wrongfully accused of crime, Think Again.
Unlike the Scottsboro Boys and the Central Park Five, a group of teenaged boys from the 1930s and the 1980s who were wrongfully convicted of crime then years later exonerated after they were founded innocent.
Gladys W. MuturiPublished 2 months ago in Criminal
Conspiracy Theories
Have you noticed how many conspiracy theories have sprung up the past five years? Why do you think so many have given us pause to ponder? Do you think it had something to do with war, politics, crime, economy, love, peace, beauty, sickness, and/or the loyalists of the "keeping it real" trend? I do. I'm mentally-ill - Nice to meet you. Do you agree with the Chesire Cat that "we're all MAD here...." ? I do, but some of us got an official diagnosis, which can be difficult or helpful depending on how one utilizes their title.
Shanon Marie Clare Angermeyer NormanPublished 2 months ago in Criminal
52 Lock Up: BigFoot, Meth & the loss of Jimmy Knighen
Welcome back to 52 Lock Up, I am your Appletini Cadma of Bitten Apple TV. 52 lock up is a series I started to talk about one of my biggest passions of true crime. A new episode on every Cadmaniac Monday for 52 Mondays, 52 crimes. Hope you guys enjoy, be sure to like, leave some feedback and subscribe; Viewer discretion is always advised.
52 Lock Up: Cold Case of Little Miss Nobody has a name
Welcome back to 52 Lock Up, I am your Appletini Cadma of Bitten Apple TV. 52 lock up is a series I started to talk about one of my biggest passions of true crime. A new episode on every Cadmaniac Monday for 52 Mondays, 52 crimes. Hope you guys enjoy, be sure to like, leave some feedback and subscribe; Viewer discretion is always advised. I will be discussing missing children and the death of a child.
52 Lock Up: Shadow Vision vs Little Rock Slasher
Welcome back to 52 Lock Up, I am your Appletini Cadma of Bitten Apple TV. 52 lock up is a series I started to talk about one of my biggest passions of true crime. A new episode on every Cadmaniac Monday for 52 Mondays, 52 crimes. Hope you guys enjoy, be sure to like, leave some feedback and subscribe; Viewer discretion is always advised. I will be discussing the death of children in this episode. Viewer discretion is advised.
52 Lock Up: Loss of Riley White Law
Welcome back to 52 Lock Up, I am your Appletini Cadma of Bitten Apple TV. 52 lock up is a series I started to talk about one of my biggest passions of true crime. A new episode on every Cadmaniac Monday for 52 Mondays, 52 crimes. Hope you guys enjoy, be sure to like, leave some feedback and subscribe; Viewer discretion is always advised. I will be discussing the death of a teenager.
