Black Residents Share Thoughts on Police-Community Relations. Last week communities across Atlanta came together for the annual observance of National Night Out, an event meant to forge partnerships between neighborhoods and law enforcement, and educate community members about crime prevention tactics.
The event comes on the heels of the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial, which has electrified black communities across the country, and the opening of the film “Fruitvale Station,” which tells the story of Oscar Grant, an unarmed Black man who was killed by a police officer. Both happenings have sparked discussions about the value of Black life in the U.S. and the way in which black communities engage with law enforcement. During National Night Out on Tuesday Night, some community residents shared their opinion of the way in which the Atlanta police interact with their respective communities. Llyasha Treadwell, a local massage therapist, is new to the Booker T. Washington community. Judge who accepted private-prison bribes to send black kids to jail sentenced to 28 years. In 2009, I wrote about Judge Mark A.
Ciavarella, one of two Pennsylvania judges who was paid bribes by a private prison contractor to send black children to prison and keep the for-profit prisons full. Ciavarella, who once sent an African-American child to jail for three months for posting negative comments about her assistant principal on MySpace, has been sentenced to 28 years in prison. He was convicted of racketeering, and has been stripped of his state pension. But after a federal investigation, it was discovered that Ciavarella and his colleague, Judge Michael Conahan, received more than $2.6 million from privately run youth centers owned by PA Child Care. In 2011, Ciavarella was convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 28 years in prison. Judge to serve 28 years after making $2 million for sending black children to jail [Amir Shaw/Rolling Out] (Thanks, John Jack!) Eugene Robinson: Defusing a Sociological Bomb.
Defusing a Sociological Bomb Posted on Jan 7, 2011 By Eugene Robinson Race still matters in America and justice is not completely blind.
Anyone who believes otherwise should examine the case of Cornelius Dupree Jr., who was ruled innocent Tuesday after spending 30 years in prison—almost his entire adult life—for a brutal carjacking and rape that he did not commit. Dupree is just the latest of 21 inmates from the Dallas area, almost all of them black, who have been exonerated since a 2001 Texas law permitted DNA testing of the evidence against them. Angela Davis on Trayvon Martin and Violence in America. Racial Disparity Under Sentencing Guidelines: A Survey of Recent Research and Emerging Perspectives - Johnson - 2013 - Sociology Compass. Twitter user arrested for threatening to rape and murder female activist. By David EdwardsMonday, July 29, 2013 10:28 EDT Scotland Yard said that a 21-year-old man was arrested in London on Sunday for sending rape and murder threats to a female activist on Twitter.
Caroline Criado-Perez had become a target on Wednesday after she organized a successful campaign to have author Jane Austen appear on a newly-designed British bank note. “Everybody jump on the rape train . . . [Criado-Perez] is the conductor,” one Twitter user wrote, according to The Age. “Wouldn’t mind tying this bitch to my stove. A Scotland Yard spokesperson said on Sunday that the arrest of a 21-year-old man was “in connection with an allegation of malicious communications received by officers in Camden on Thursday, July 25.”
FBI: More than 100 teens rescued in sex-trafficking raids. WASHINGTON -- The FBI announced Monday the arrests of 150 people and recovery of 105 children involved in child prostitution rings across the country.
The 76-city sweep, conducted in the past three days, represents the largest such law enforcement action focused on children forced into sexual slavery, federal authorities said. READ | FBI Press Release on the raid According to the FBI, two of the teens were rescued in Metro Atlanta, while eight pimps were arrested in Metro Atlanta. An additional nine people were arrested on prostitution-related charges in Augusta. The FBI also arrested two other people on pimping-related charges in Augusta. RELATED | Brenda Wood rides with a group trying to save our girls Assistant FBI Director Ron Hosko, head of the bureau's criminal division, said the children ranged from 13 to 17 years old.
"We have victims whose new normal is sexual abuse,'' Hosko said. Ryan said the law enforcement action "is saving lives.'' (NBC News) White people believe the justice system is color blind. Black people really don’t. Poli-Sci Perspective is a weekly Wonkblog feature in which Georgetown University’s Dan Hopkins and George Washington University’s Danny Hayes and John Sides offer an empirical perspective on the issues dominating Washington.
In this edition, Sides interviews political scientists Jon Hurwitz and Mark Peffley about their book on how blacks and whites perceive the criminal justice system, and what it implies for Trayvon Martin’s death, George Zimmerman’s acquittal, and the aftermath. The transcript below has been lightly edited. For past posts in the series, head here. Michael S. Williamson-The Washington Post Q: Your recent book is Justice in America: The Separate Realities of Blacks and Whites.