Sentences with phrase «crime has on people»

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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.

Over the past 12 months, over 3,000 people suspected of violent crime, murder, rape and sexual offences have been released on bail without conditions, according to the BBC.

As people continue to store more of their personal information online, identity theft has become a crime on the rise.

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.

«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.»

Representatives from two organizations that track hate crimes, the Southern Povery Law Center and the Council on American - Islamic Relations, told USA Today that they had seen a much larger number of people reporting hate crimes than was typical since the general election.

The original petition — published in June 2013 on the «We The People» website and signed by 167,954 people — asked the White House for a «full, free and absolute pardon for any crimes [Snowden] has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA [National Security Agency] surveillance programs.&People» website and signed by 167,954 people — asked the White House for a «full, free and absolute pardon for any crimes [Snowden] has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA [National Security Agency] surveillance programs.&people — asked the White House for a «full, free and absolute pardon for any crimes [Snowden] has committed or may have committed related to blowing the whistle on secret NSA [National Security Agency] surveillance programs.»

Despite the fact that there are an estimated 10 million LGBTQ - identified Americans and 62 % of Americans are in favor of marriage equality, LGBTQ people are not protected from workplace discrimination, face growing numbers of violent hate crimes, including harassment on public transportation, and have been called the cause for «societal collapse» by the sitting Vice President.

«If we substitute a tax on marijuana cigarettes equal to the difference between the local production cost and the street price people currently pay — that is, transfer the revenue from the current producers and marketers (many of whom work with organized crime) to the government, leaving all other marketing and transportation issues aside we would have revenue of (say) $ 7 per [unit].

In a letter to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Democratic and Republican leaders of the state House and Senate Wednesday, Schneiderman asked state lawmakers to pass legislation that would allow for prosecuting people on the state level for the exact crimes they were convicted of — and pardoned for — on the federal level.

Japan's police force has arrested 5 people from Tokyo and Hyogo on April 16th over a fraudulent transaction of ¥ 190 mln ($ 1.7 mln) worth of Bitcoins.A total of 12 men have been arrested in association with this crime over a period of 11 months.

The Enrollment Program also authorizes a superior court to have jurisdiction over enrollees by allowing it to «appoint a receiver, monitor, conservator, or other designated fiduciary or officer of the court for a defendant or the defendant's assets,» as well as authorizes the Commissioner of Business Oversight to «include in civil actions claims for ancillary relief, including restitution and disgorgement, on behalf of a person injured, as well as attorney's fees and costs, and civil penalties of up to $ 25,000» for up to four years after the purported violation occurred and «refer evidence regarding violations of the bill's provisions to the Attorney General, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the United States Department of the Treasury, or the district attorney of the county in which the violation occurred, who would be authorized, with or without this type of a reference, to institute appropriate proceedings.»

An American pastor who's amassed more than 50 million views on YouTube has visited London to tell young people about the dangers of drugs and crime.

involvement, and don't want government to run our affairs, but they don't» mind that the Corporate power in this country is becoming more like Organized Crime Mafia, and they turn the blind eye to their lawlessness and the injustice done, and heavy burdens that are being loaded on the ordinary people by those in power... That's why we have the poor, and ever - increasingly — becoming - poor working class.

If these people would bother to look at the evidence, which was that Zimmerman called 911 and stayed on the line... why would he of called if he was about to commit a crime.

The doctrine remains what it has been: that the State, in principle, has the right to impose the death penalty on persons convicted of very serious crimes.

God has already maligned Himself by inspiring biblical writers to record horrendous acts against people, many of which appear to be on the same level as those crimes committed by men like Hitler, Stalin, and Saddam Hussein.

I also was aware of the hypocrisy of how «gay» sin, or «non-virgin» sin, or other «moral» issues, were regarded far far differently than sins of omission, white lies, tax fudging, white collar crime in general (who is more sinful, the girl that has sex before marriage, or the CEO that knows his company is lax on pollution standards that affect the health of hundreds / thousands of people and animals that live nearby)

The United States bishops, in their majority statement on capital punishment, conceded that «Catholic teaching has accepted the principle that the State has the right to take the life of a person guilty of an extremely serious crime.»

I am sure that if anyone were charged with a crime, or is on trial, I am sure that if any of those lines were used in the presence of a police officer, judge, jury, etc., that person would be ticking off that person and hurting his own case.

You can't pin those crimes on a lack in belief in god, because a belief in a god hasn't stopped people from doing horrible things.

Although we have cracked down on drunken driving and in general want to hold people who commit crimes while under the influence of alcohol culpable, we are not accustomed to holding such persons culpable for their ignorance beyond the particular offense.

The priest benefits practically from the policeman's civil authority (Clare gets to accompany Russ to crime scenes), while the detective draws on the priest's spiritual insight and her position in the community (when people have confessions to make, they naturally gravitate to priests).

Lord Person has urged for a discussion on the issue because he believes what constitutes a hate crime has not been clearly enshrined in law.

Any person on this earth who commits a crime needs to be held accountable, it does not matter if your a police officer, fireman, news broadcaster, famous celebrity, priest, monk, factory worker, or cashier, you are a citizen of a country, each country has rules, each person is answerable to these rules.

Trump has enjoyed wide support from white supremacist groups on account of his hateful rhetoric regarding Muslims and immigrants, and the Republican frontrunner has shared bogus crime statistics from white nationalist Web sites to oppose the #BlackLivesMatter movement and stir up fear of black people.

A person doesn't «have an abusive incident»; rather, a person commits a crime of abuse: a crime that many, including this conservative Catholic, would position just one or two steps below murder on the hierarchy of evil.

A state that was «truly founded upon the principles of atheism would be the greatest place on earth; a place of reason, compassion, logic, knowledge and beauty, where each fellow knew his and her fellows as people to be cherished, not chastised and shackled into conformity through propaganda and war crimes.»

We know that medicinally it benefits; we know that the reduction on the prisoner population would be drastically cut; we know that a person if more likely to commit a crime when they are drunk opposed to stoned.

I side with the 95 + % of priests who have not committed these crimes but who people like you broad brush and cast aspersions on.

So by «safer» are you saying that gay people commit more crime or have more of a detrimental effect on pollution, overpopulation, or the other issues that indanger our world?

It is one of the darkest crimes in history what happened to Native Americans, as people on this blog have already brought up.

The founders of Black Lives Matter refute these 11 stated misconceptions about their movement; they ignore Black on Black crime, they're leaderless, they have no agenda, they're a one - issue movement (Police brutality), they don't respect their elders, they reject the Black Church, they don't care about Queer / Trans lives, they hate White people, they hate Police officers, politically speaking their focus should be the vote, and they're not actually a movement.

Those who defend capital punishment on grounds of deterrence would have us take the lives of some — persons convicted of certain crimes — because doing so will discourage crime and thus protect others.

One conviction of abuse against a child or young person would be one too many but my attempts to gather reliable information on the number of priests convicted of crimes against children and young persons in the last thirty years have been unsuccessful.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but all our news programs are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with sentimental love in every pop song; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonize over our local sports team; we own many things, and still feel like we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» on the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

... well shame on you... I'm a beliver of god... not these monster that have penetrated the house of god... these people will pay for their crimes and also the immmpossttooorrrsss like your self...

theoretically, if more people are coming to campus, than you'd have to believe that the gross the number of shitty (who would commit crime) people on campus would increase, no?

You have to go into every situation as if your life is on the line, especially in high crime areas, and when you have people (in this case, a suspect) not following instructions and running, it just makes it worse.

Which reminded me that Lenore Skenazy of FreeRangeKids has a page on crime statistics for every person who's ever said, «Times are different now.

The study showed that the likelihood of committing crime later in life comes down to the quality of services on offer and whether young people have a chance to mix with better - behaved peers, guided by structured activities and respected youth leaders.

If I were in a white - collar financial crimes division, investigating someone for corporate espionage, and found evidence of participation in a child pornography ring on their computer, I think people would be hard - pressed to argue that I should not pass that information along to other law enforcement people.

I would agree, it seems to me that employment is likely to lower the chances of poverty and crime, and modern western societies have placed a lot of value on being employed (or working in general, as in being self - employed or even owning and running a business - but most people still work regular old jobs).

Part of this general failure has been the direct result of overly monetization of politics, mass illiteracy, ethnocentrism, organized crime, voter and election fraud (election malpractice), campaigns of lies which Lucky Dube sang about on «political games, «Bob Marley on «Ambush in the Night» and «Burnin» and Lootin»», Steele Pulse's David Hines on «Bodyguard,» Mutabaruka on «The People's Court»...

And by governance on a daily basis, mean from the how from kings, aristocrats, down through every layer of bureaucracy till you get to your local tax collector, what / why / how these people ran the government administration on a day to day basis, from dealing with a rival city who recently stole one of your citizens crops, to pirates interfering with trade on the Mediterranean, to drought, city administration, what to do with tax money, neighborly disputes, superstition, weather, crime, theft, laws and battles of ideology, to political rivalries and infighting, to a foreigner spreading strange religious ideas in the city (or dealing with somebody accused of a crime they claim they did not commit), I mean everything and everything these officials may have dealt with, daily, and how they changed over time.

The main reason for this is that people come from countries that are not necessarily keen to get individuals that have committed serious crimes back on their territory and deportation is therefore impossible to arrange.

The statement reads,» It has come to the knowledge of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC that some unscrupulous individuals parading themselves as operatives of the Commission have been harassing some prominent persons in the country on the pretext of purportedly executing Search Warrants on behalf of the Commission.

If such a person had committed crimes of violence against women and were imprisoned, they may have a legally protected right to be housed in a women's prison, solely on the basis of their self - declared gender identity.

The intolerable outbreak of crime we saw on the streets of our cities this summer shined a light on our youth justice system and the underlying reasons why young people sometimes feel they have nothing to lose and a lot to gain from crime.

The bill would ban discrimination based on one's gender identity or expression and also expand hate - crime laws that would explicitly outlaw crimes committed against people due to their identity or expression.