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Law & Economics Prof Blog
Racial Disparities in Imprisonment across States: Why Are They So Much Greater in Liberal States?
Steve Sailer’s blog reprinted an interesting table on racial disparities in imprisonment rates. Liberal states imprison many more blacks relative to whites. The deep South has the most equal imprisonment…
The Right Coast
Córdoba Man Attacks Robbers with Katana | The Bubble
Three men, one armed with a 9mm pistol, burst in through a window in the very early hours of the morning while the 49-year-old metalworker and his wife were sleeping.…
Cruise Law News
Palma Police Arrest 2 Crew Members After Crime Spree Ashore
By Jim Walker
A reader of Cruise Law News sent me this story about two young Italian crew member, ages 19 and 21, who seem to have gone on a crime spree while…
The Right Coast
2 cousins stabbed at party in Oak Park military housing complex – 10News.com KGTV ABC10 San Diego
San Diego police report that the stabbing took place sometime after 2 a.m. at a home near State Route 94 and College Grove Way. Tenants threw a party but later…
Sentencing Law and Policy
New Brennan Center report asks “What Caused the Crime Decline?”
Main February 12, 2015New Brennan Center report asks "What Caused the Crime Decline?"This press release highlights the publication of this important new report by the Brennan Center for Justice titled…
Sentencing Law and Policy
More good crime news for first part of 2014 according to FBI data
Main January 27, 2015More good crime news for first part of 2014 according to FBI dataAs reported in this official press release, the "the FBI’s Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report…
Sentencing Law and Policy
More great news about declining homicide rates as we close book on 2014
Main January 3, 2015More great news about declining homicide rates as we close book on 2014As reported in this Washington Post piece, headlined "In major cities, murder rates drop precipitously,"…
Cruise Law News
Yahoo Travel’s Worst Caribbean Cruise Ports of Call
By Jim Walker
Yahoo Travel published an article today that's certain to upset the tourism representatives in the Caribbean islands which are dependent on cruise tourism. Entitled The Worst Caribbean Cruise Ports of Call,…
Sentencing Law and Policy
“Actually, Blacks Do Care About Black Crime”
Main December 2, 2014"Actually, Blacks Do Care About Black Crime"The title of this post is the headline of this notable new Slate commentary by Jamelle Bouie. Here are excerpts: In…
The Right Coast
Pack of teens beats man to death near Ferguson, but protests sparse | Fox News
The horrific attack occurred in southwest St. Louis, just 20 miles from Ferguson, where a police shooting of a black man and a grand jury's subsequent decision not to indict…