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Thoughts on Orlando Massacre ... (Richard Hancock, USA, 06/15/16 4:30 am) All of the world's papers have been filled with reactions to the Orlando shootings. The 14 June Wall Street Journal has several articles about the tragedy.  I found three of these a ...
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Orlando Nightclub Shooter Omar Mateen; "Bacha Bazi" ... (Massoud Malek, USA, 06/14/16 3:29 am) In a video, Seddique Mateen, the father of Omar Mateen, who committed the worst mass shooting in the US history, said: "He was a good and educated son; the sight of two men in Miami kissing anger ...
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More Thoughts on Taharrush; from Gary Moore ... (John Eipper, USA, 01/20/16 4:17 am) Gary Moore writes: John Eipper's thoughtful question on my "Beast in the Dark" post (16 January), about modern gang anomie, gives me a chance to follow ...
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The Beast in the Dark: Taharrush; from Gary Moore ... (John Eipper, USA, 01/16/16 5:02 am) Gary Moore writes: I want to address here a meta-phenomenon glimpsed in many WAIS posts. A recent puzzle piece, the Cologne New Year's mob in Germany, has taken a ...
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Two Chicago-Area Crimes ... (David Duggan, USA, 11/06/15 6:40 pm) The media in these parts (Chicago) are abuzz about two off-the-charts crime stories. The first is that the "too good to be true" police Lt. "GI Joe" Gliniewicz's widely public ...
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Violent Crime in US, Detroit ... (Randy Black, USA, 07/18/15 8:46 am) Recently, John Eipper posed the possibility that the nation's murder rate might be coming down. (See John's comments to my post of July 10th.) Notwithstanding a July report that Detroit's ...
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Crime: Interpol ... (Ronald Hilton, USA, 02/01/05 12:56 am) I wondered why the US id not consider Interpol in its proposal to establish and international agency to fight terrorism. I asked: Is it that the US distrusts Interpol because it is based ...
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Crime: Allan Pinkerton ... (Ronald Hilton, USA, 02/01/05 12:55 am) Bill Ratliff discussed crime statistics, and I added a note on Interpol and terrorists. Following the same theme, John Gehl sends this bio of  the private detective Allan Pinkerton ( ...
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