[Incarceration in the United States] As incarceration rates skyrocket, the private prison industry expands at exponential rates, holding ever more people in its prisons and jails, and generating massive profits. Private prisons for adults were virtually non-existent until the early 1980s, but the number of prisoners in private prisons increased by approximately 1600% between 1990 [...]
Had a neighbor who stole my mail – unknown frequency, but the bastard stole both incoming and outgoing letters. First month’s rent check never made it to the landlord. One day he left a card – addressed to him, opened – in the mailbox. Apparently he felt guilty about his felonious ways… … me, I [...]
via Hip Hop and Politics What can I say? I like this guy’s message. Do the math and you’ll see – the man is right. Being an uneducated, thugged-out, crack-smoking gangsta does not equate to participation in the lifestyles of the rich and notorious… but just try telling that to the stoned kids practicing their [...]
via Random_Man “Join a gang,” they said, “see the ghetto,” they said – all I got was this lousy subdural hematoma.
The correlation: Not so obvious. In fact, there may very well be no correlation between a slum (i.e. a hotspot for criminal activity) and a tarpit (where worms and malicious robot spiders go to die)… … but wouldn’t it be grand to see crack dealers and car thieves up to their necks in a sticky [...]
The intrigue of the grizzled anti-hero caricatured in film noir seems to have passed from the tough-talking, fedora-wearing, revolver-toting private investigator to the IRC-chatting, unwaveringly-unfashionable, laptop-toting computer geek. There will always be a place for drug-dealing junkies / kingpins and psychotic outbursts, but cybercrime is the insanely feasible get-rich-quick ticket to intrigue which can grant [...]
Despite the rise of DNA fingerprinting and other “CSI”-style crime-fighting wizardry, more and more people in this country are getting away with murder. FBI figures reviewed by The Associated Press show that the homicide clearance rate, as detectives call it, dropped from 91 percent in 1963 – the first year records were kept in the [...]
Rarely does one read about a crime which actually sounds like it was fun to commit – complete with getaway by inner tube on a river… The robbery happened went down in tiny Monroe, Washington. The thief wore a ventilator mask, and sprayed the armored truck guard [with pepper spray], outside a Bank of America [...]
George MeteskyAKA The Mad Bomber When you catch him-and I have no doubt you will-he’ll be wearing a double-breasted suit. – Criminal profiling made easy. This humorous (in a manner that only true crime can be) tale of “dastardly deeds” made my day.
Surrounding asbestos once was woodIntentions perhaps counterpoising those noble and goodA drunk tackles his woman in the streetConclusion: “Fuck this neighborhood” Managed not to write anything for the past week, waiting for the hammer to come down with the thugged-out highschool dropouts who jumped me last weekend. Between the ASP baton I picked up and [...]
