Sentences with phrase «on crime at»

It is hard to believe that the conservatives are proposing tough new laws on crime at a time when crime is going down.

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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.

But Kathryn Haun, a former federal prosecutor who signed off on the indictment, says Vinnik's use of Bitcoin helps clearly connect him to the crime: «At first blush what seemed unsolvable turned out to be traceable through the use of digital currency.»

Recorded crime in England and Wales is at a 10 - year high, according to figures slipped out by the Home Office on Thursday.

Ryan Murphy speaks onstage during «The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story» panel discussion at 2015 Winter TCA Tour on January 16, 2016 in Pasadena, California.

During Sessions» speech on Tuesday at the National Association of Attorneys General Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C., Sessions said President Trump tasked him with a goal to reduce crime across America and Sessions says he believes crime and drugs go hand in hand.

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.

On March 28, after a seven - year investigation, the RCMP's commercial crime section filed criminal charges against three of the firm's principals: former CEO Daniel Potter, who built the software developer into a TSE - listed firm with a market value of $ 100 million at the height of the dot - com bubble; Halifax securities lawyer Blois Colpitts, 48, a former director and the firm's legal adviser; and Bruce Elliott Clarke, a 65 - year - old former broker with National Bank Financial.

Rodeo, which recently won an Oscar for its work on Blade Runner 2049, is already hard at work on new projects, including Disney's The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, as well as Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, forthcoming in November.

«In Guerrero, police, both state and local, pose little obstacle to organized crime groups,» Adam Isacson, a senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA), told The Daily Beast this month.

At a hearing in Moscow's Tverskoy District Court to decide whether Magomedov and his associates should be detained before their trial, Judge Maria Sizintseva said they had acted as part of an organised crime group and had tried to put pressure on witnesses.

Panama's public prosecutor against organised crime said there was no evidence so far to take action against the law firm at the center of the Panama Papers scandal, following a raid lasting 27 hours on its offices.

The crackdown on corporate crime sparked six years ago by accounting scandals at Enron and WorldCom has done little to foster ethical behavior in the workplace, where many employees are still afraid to speak out about misconduct, a new study finds.

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

MICHAEL HUDSON: I was discussing that earlier this morning with a German investment banker, and their belief is that, so far on Wall Street, Wall Street's been able to have the attorney general they want, Eric Holder, who has refused to prosecute any financial crime on Wall Street at all, as my colleague Bill Black has pointed out.

Second, seek legislation requiring that if a federally insured financial institution is required to pay fines to or settlements with any regulatory agency aggregating more than $ 2.5 billion in any two year period based on conduct that, if established, would constitute a crime under any law, then the CEO, President, and all Board members must step down, disgorge all of the bank's stock they own, and they are disqualified from holding any office at any federally - insured institution for the rest of their lives.

Fraud and money laundering will be tougher to execute, as it would become significantly more difficult to forge documentation; and such crimes would be easier to detect, as the identity of an individual or entity can also be stored on the blockchain, which ensures secure and quick identity authentication without the need to warehouse data at third - party repositories.

Chris Cobb looked at the implications of getting tough on crime.

Financial crime fighters at the U.S. Treasury are «aggressively» pursuing virtual currency platforms that lack strong internal safeguards against money laundering, a top official told a Senate panel on Wednesday.

How about an indepth investigation on the Obama administration selling guns to mexican cartels and these guns showing up at crime scenes.

At least all we have to do to avoid the ultimate penalty is to accept Christ and believe in his sacrificial atonement, however, we still have to suffer on earth for humanity crime in the garden of eden.

Coming on the heels of prestige true crime series like Serial and HBO's The Jinx, the Netflix's documentary series offers an astonishing look at the criminal justice system through the bizarre case of Steven Avery.

If you read the Bible and look at the world, it becomes impossible to be silent on anyone's crime or to commit suicide.

Nobody's looking at Tulsa and saying that's high white - on - white crimes.

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.

ATTACs principal focus areas at the moment are: the different forms of taxation of financial transactions, in particular the Tobin tax on currency speculation; the creation of new instruments for the regulation and control of finance at the national, European and international levels; the battle against tax havens and financial crime; and the demystification of pension funds.

If you believe you'd be committing crimes without the few good parts from that book, then have at it because obviously you wouldn't be safe on the streets.

At its 1983 Vancouver Assembly the World Council of Churches adopted a report that announces: We believe that the time has come when the churches must unequivocally declare that the production and deployment as well as the use of nuclear weapons are a crime against humanity and that such activities must be condemned on ethical and theological grounds.»

When the Nazi officials on trial at Nuremberg argued in their defense that they had merely obeyed the laws of the state, public opinion quickly agreed that there ought to be a law proscribing such crimes against humanity.

The reference to gang signs in Stormzy's album title comes at a time when gang - related crime is on the rise in the UK (recent figures show knife crime increased in the UK by 14 per cent between 2015 and 2016).

The chief of human rights at the U.N. said, «If established as deliberate in a court of law, an airstrike on a hospital may amount to a war crime.»

Other speakers at the event include Professor Anthony Goodman, who has carried out research on youth and crime and Delphine Duff, a consultant who's worked with the Probation Service.

They look at things like the Koran burning, WBC's hate campaign, the nastiness directed toward LGBTs, weekly arrests of pastors and priests for various crimes and so on and ask how this looks like Jesus.

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

In Judgment at Nuremberg, a German judge, Burt Lancaster, is on trial for war crimes.

«The interpretation of whether or not a crime is considered «particularly serious» is dictated by the type of relief an applicant is seeking, and can also involve some subjectivity on the part of a judge,» said Courtney Tudi, director of immigrant legal services at World Relief.

Every week, she explained, all the junior professors gathered on that night at another professor's house» — this one a well - known youngish professor who wrote about pop culture — «to watch Miami Vice,» the»80s crime show with Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas («Crockett and Tubbs»).

The Council on American - Islamic Relations in Kansas is asking for Purinton to be charged with a hate crime both federally and at the state level «in order to send a strong message that violence targeting religious or ethnic minorities will not be tolerated.»

We have become used to dismissing matters of religion («Oh, it's all rubbish»; «Causes more trouble than it's worth» etc) and we find it easier to sludge along with our culture soaked in TV soap operas and rising crime figures and drunken teenagers hanging around bleak shopping centres shouting at one another on Saturday nights.

within such restraints, adultery comes across as a much more hedious crime than in the christian world, where everything is on public display, at work, in the supermarket and on TV.

Despairing of any larger religious or social redemption, we can at least rely on murder mysteries to solve individual crimes and bring malefactors to justice.

Apart from those justifications, no solution could be found for the most obvious question that occurs to one at once on examining any historical event; that is, How did millions of men combine to commit crimes, murders, wars, and so on?

Howard excellent article by bonhoeffer on grace, it isnt cheap we were bought at a price we were slaves and he bought us and Jesus paid for each of us in full and then gave us our freedom.It was given by him freely because we did nt have the means to pay him even if we worked a lifetime it still wouldnt be enough.To me it is a crime to accept his grace without giving him all of our hearts in return.That is the least we could do.brentnz

For those who are not yet convinced of my lunacy, I'd like to finish with a word on the statement that, «Faith has always been used as an excuse to commit crimes against humanity...» I will grant you that at some points in history, humans have used faith «as an excuse to commit crimes against humanity.»

The Meese report's conclusions, based on information from law enforcement agencies (who presumably know), tell us that it is too simple to see organized crime (in the sense of the Mafia) at the heart of porn, though there may indeed be payoffs, protection and other such connections involved.

At a time when America was gripped with fear of violent crime, this macabre event established Clinton's tough - on - crime bona fides — and diverted talk from a nascent sex scandal.

On more than one occasion, I took my right hand and fellow partner in crime (if you will forgive the comparison), Ian Metcalfe, along to meetings with me (we were ace at good cop - bad cop — I'll let you decide who played which role), and more often than not, the meetings were directed at Ian with the assumption that I worked for him.

I turned intentionally to a life of crime at age twelve and found myself facing the death penalty at age twenty for offenses including conspiracies to commit bank robberies, hijackings, and homicide, and then, after a merciful and undeserved reprieve from God, spent ten years in America's worst prison trying to figure out, among other things, the nature of punishment — and «Saving Punishment» by Stephen Webb is certainly the best meditation I've come across on the subject.

Do you really think any social program the governemnt could possibly administer will matter to you when you are surrounded by religous Zealots hell bent on punishing our «Evil» nation for its Crusades and crimes against Allah and are blowing themselves up at a mall, hospital, or airplane near you in exchange for a bevy of beautiful virgins?

A program on Iran's government - backed Press TV recently took a woman convicted of adultery and murder back to her home in Osku «to produce a visual account» of the death of her husband «at the crime scene.»