Sentences with phrase «by the crimes of»

«Today, we remember those whose loved ones were murdered on September 11th and everyone who was touched by the crimes of bin Laden.

The murders depicted in this film were inspirered by the crimes of Andrei Chikatilo.

Not exact matches

With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

In the U.K., for example counterfeit fraud, which is the most common type of credit card crime, has fallen by nearly 60 percent since it implemented EMV in 2005.

Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

By claiming the electronics they ordered had shown up damaged, the couple scored GoPro cameras, Xbox game consoles, Samsung smartwatches, and Microsoft Surface tablets by creating hundreds of fake online identities to conceal their crimeBy claiming the electronics they ordered had shown up damaged, the couple scored GoPro cameras, Xbox game consoles, Samsung smartwatches, and Microsoft Surface tablets by creating hundreds of fake online identities to conceal their crimeby creating hundreds of fake online identities to conceal their crimes.

Named after the 13th constitutional amendment, which abolished slavery except as «punishment for crime,» the doc uses archival footage and expert commentary to make the case that slavery hasn't disappeared from the U.S. — it's evolved into our modern system of mass incarceration, one in which many prisons are run by for - profit companies and prisoners can be paid a pittance to work for corporations.

Federal law says it is an offense to «willfully print or publish in any manner not provided by law any such return or return information,» and both New York and New Jersey law make it a crime to «divulge or make known in any manner the amount of income or any particulars set forth or disclosed in any report or return.»

The vast majority of that industry — an estimated 85 % — is currently controlled by organized crime.

NEW DELHI, April 21 - Indian authorities will be empowered to seize properties of super-rich fugitives whose economic offences or crimes involve sums over 1 billion rupees, according to a government document seen by Reuters on Saturday.

Caputo has only been interviewed by the House committee as a witness, meaning he is not suspected of committing any crimes.

That's already a major barrier to people seeking treatment in the first place (as is a dearth of affordable treatment options); but it can be magnified by a conviction and incarceration, which exacerbate a vicious cycle of lackluster employment opportunities, social exclusion, and continued crime and addiction.

The current dog - approved collection includes Born a Crime by Trevor Noah, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Soldier Dogs by Maria Goodavage, A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron, and The Art of Racing in the Road by Garth Stein.

Flynn was the first member of the Trump administration to plead guilty to a crime uncovered by the special counsel Robert Mueller's ongoing, wide - ranging investigation into Russian attempts to influence the 2016 US presidential election and whether any Trump campaign aides colluded with Moscow.

In September, London's transport authority declined to renew Uber's private - hire operator license over concerns about its vetting of drivers, its under - reporting of crimes by drivers, and the tactics it has used to undermine regulators in the past.

«I have been forced to make a difficult decision: to become complicit in crimes against the American people or walk away from nearly ten years of hard work by shutting down Lavabit,» Ladar Levinson, the company's founder, said in a letter to users.

Accused of genocide in the country's Darfur region, al - Bashir is officially listed as a sponsor of terror by the United States and wanted by the International Criminal Court for alleged crimes against humanity.

The region's violence is in large part driven by drug trafficking and organized crime — in Mexico, fragmentation of criminal groups has stoked more bloodshed in recent months.

In Baltimore, officers were evaluated by number of arrests — so they made many arrests, but for infractions like not having a bike light or failing to carry I.D. Meanwhile Baltimore's crime rate remained persistently high.

Or, maybe worse, they fall prey to acting as a conduit for some type of organized crime ring looking to make big money by selling or manipulating stolen personal data.

According to a 2005 study of criminal patterns by Statistics Canada, for example, inflation rates influence the levels of financially motivated crimes such as break - ins and car thefts, while increases in unemployment correlate with higher homicide rates.

When asked by a local news station about his tab, Boren said he only took home $ 400,000 — less than he'd normally charge — and the rest of the money went to mental health experts, crime - scene reconstructors, mitigation investigators (who rarely get hired outside of death penalty cases), and DNA labs.

I've seen in in the home raids and the deportations of innocent family friends and I've seen it in hate crimes, and I've seen it in laws passed by Obama that strip a certain type of people, people that look like me, of our rights in the interest of «national security.»

What we're looking at is the inevitable result of that history expressed through public opinion, and influenced by racialized ideas on crime and criminality.

By the middle of the 19th century, notes Banner, the death penalty had been removed from «crime after crime until none of the northern states used it for any offense other than murder.»

According to a new study by research provider Custom Products, the number of crimes committed by people over 60 is soaring, with 35 % of arrests for shop - lifting involving the retiree demographic, up from 20 % in 2001.

Violent crime is encroaching on this Riviera Maya tourist hot spot, as well as nearby Playa del Carmen and Tulum, jeopardizing a $ 20 billion a year business that attracts millions of visitors lured by the white sand beaches, archaeological ruins and pulsing nightlife.

By the 1980s, organized crime groups controlled nearly all of the ready - mix concrete supplies in the New York area.

According to a study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics that examined data from 30 US states between 2005 and 2010, two thirds of released prisoners were arrested for a new crime within three years, and more than a third were arrested after just six months.

By contrast, in Louisiana — reflecting the incredible tension over slavery and existential fear of revolt — «it was a capital crime to print or distribute material, or to make a speech or display a sign, or even to have a private conversation, that might spread discontent among the free black population or insubordination among slaves.»

Cyber crime ignores borders by its nature, and fighting it requires an unusually high level of cooperation between the companies under attack, the private security firms they hire for protection and investigations, and the law enforcement agencies in multiple countries that try to track hackers down.

InSight Crime: The Zetas organization was founded by a group of deserters from the special forces of the Mexican Army.

In a decision released by the Baltimore Circuit Court, Judge Martin P. Welch wrote that the 35 - year - old was being granted a new trial because his initial council failed to properly cross-examine an expert from the state about the reliability of cell tower data that seemed to place him at the scene of the crime.

Chevron said two of its executives were arrested in Venezuela, a rare move likely to spook foreign energy firms still operating in the OPEC nation stricken by hyperinflation, shortages and crime.

«These are two humans who, by technology and science, have created ways that they can fight crime and get rid of bad people,» said deGrasse Tyson.

Yepez, himself known as «El Marro,» or «The Mallet,» is wanted by federal authorities and suspected of crimes ranging from drug trafficking to fuel theft.

In 1974 a number of administration officials were charged with crimes relating to Watergate and the cover - up, and President Nixon resigned in August 1974, succeeded by Vice-President Gerald Ford.

On top of that, docks were often controlled by organized crime or run through unions, and there were problems of theft to contend with.

Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

The law, known as Senate Bill 4, is slated to take effect Sept. 1, but has been challenged in court by rights organizations and localities that say the law infringes on local governments» constitutional rights, and will sow fear through immigrant communities by dissuading people from reporting crimes or testifying as witnesses out of fear they will be deported.

Vatican City (AFP)- Pope Francis on Monday blasted the «money stained with blood» and «evil power» wielded by Italian organised crime as he met the heads of the country's anti-mafia squad.

«I have been granted access to the police in several states; I've got to know the people affected by crime; and I've also spent time with the perpetrators of crime, with the idea of understanding the causes of it, both on a systemic level and also in a very personal way.»

The funding for the study is a $ 600,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has spent over $ 23 million on tools like predictive crime mapping since 2003.

Data breaches like the one Target suffered are typically conducted by organized crime syndicates or similar groups with a sizeable level of cleverness.

«In spite of many favorable factors, we find all to be outweighed by the premeditated and celebrity seeking nature of the crime,» the New York Board of Parole said in a statement on Monday rejecting Chapman's request.

If you think such a venerable concept of GDP is quite uncontaminated by crime, you'd be wrong.

And African - American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.

As the popularity and availability of live streaming video increases, so does the potential for violent crimes to be broadcast live by bystanders, or even those involved.

Ross Ulbricht, 30, was convicted on all seven counts he faced by a federal jury in Manhattan, following a closely - watched trial that spilled out of U.S. investigations into the use of the digital currency bitcoin for drug trafficking and other crimes.

«I believe that the city condones behavior that's on these listservs by utilizing our staff in posting on this,» Desley Brooks said during a meeting of a council committee earlier this month, in which she suggested the city send Nextdoor a letter asking the company instate a stricter process for users to report crimes and suspicious activity.