Sentences with phrase «said victims of crime»

He said victims of crime «were low - hanging fruit» amid the government's hostile environment policy, which included immigration removal targets.

Not exact matches

«Banks and financial organizations — perhaps because that is where the money is — and nonprofits, including religious organizations, probably due to their weak business controls environment, are most often the victims of this type of white collar crime,» said Christopher Marquet, CEO of Marquet International, in a statement.

She said «really aggressive» pursuit of hackers was needed to discourage the efforts, and that even the most well - defended companies «could fall victim to these crimes.»

The National Association of Realtors found that while just 4 percent reported actually being the victims of a crime, 38 percent of respondents said they felt unsafe in the last year.

Equality Florida said it's partnering with the National Center for Victims of Crime, a nonprofit that helped distribute the proceeds from similar fundraisers after mass shootings in Aurora and Chattanooga, to «ensure that every penny will be correctly and quickly dispersed to the victims and families.Victims of Crime, a nonprofit that helped distribute the proceeds from similar fundraisers after mass shootings in Aurora and Chattanooga, to «ensure that every penny will be correctly and quickly dispersed to the victims and families.victims and families.»

The documents the victims» organization obtained «essentially show that from the earliest days of his career, Bevilacqua has ignored and concealed child sex crimes,» said David Clohessy, the group's national director.

A spokeswoman for the Diocese of London said: «Timothy Storey has today been convicted of a series of appalling crimes and we are profoundly sorry for what his victims endured.»

(CNN)- Catholic bishops «will be held accountable» for failing to protect children from sexual abuse, Pope Francis said Monday, his strongest acknowledgment yet of what abuse victims have been saying for decades: that the cover - ups have often been as bad as the crimes.

A woman who was horrifically assaulted, bound, and had her home set on fire has been declared a victim of hate crime, say Lincoln, Neb police, who also said the woman's home was graffitied with sexual slurs and derogatory slang.

We like to say it's about the most heinous crimes, but really the biggest determinants in capital punishment are the race of the victim and the resources of the defendant.

CSW's chief executive Mervyn Thomas said: «CSW stands in solidarity with the victims of this horrendous crime and calls for justice to be served and compensation to be delivered without further delay.

Now with Panama invaded, we Latin American Christians feel indignant when we hear the count on North American victims of an operation that was planned with evil intentions and hypocrisy, and yet nothing is said about the hundreds or thousands of Afro - Indo - Latin American lives... destroyed physically or psychologically by such an abominable adventure, which is a repetition of past crimes in Santo Domingo, Grenada, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador... etc., in an endless list.

A woman who was horrifically assaulted, bound, and had her home set on fire has been declared a victim of hate crime, say Lincoln, Neb police, who also said the...

«James and I would like to say how sorry we are for what has happened, especially with regard to listening to the voicemail of victims of crime.

Sen. Pam Helming received a $ 12,500 stipend after being falsely listed as chair of the Senate Crime Victims, Crime and Correction Committee, she was surprised, and said she thought she was receiving the money by mistake.

«We are confident that Eric Schneiderman will be prosecuted for his horrific crimes against women, but in the meantime anyone who has benefited from his massive campaign war chest should do the right thing and step up to help victims of domestic violence,» they said in the statement.

State Sen. Patrick Gallivan, the chair of the Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections committee, said the public's perception of youthful offenders depends on the types of crimes they commit.

However, asked if the Met were overzealous, Johnson said: «If you talk to people who worry about knife crimes, if you talk to the families of victims of knife crime, I think people will broadly support the idea that if you go out on the streets of London carrying a knife then you have to face the fact you may very well be stopped and searched and you may very well face serious consequences.

«Immigrants and refugees are the victims of crime, not the perpetrators,» she said in an interview.

«I have not, and will not, accept any payment for my work as vice chair of the Crime Victims, Crime and Correction committee,» she said.

Despite the crimes» many similarities — the ages of the victims, the fact that they were both gay, the relative proximity and the method in which they were killed — investigators do not believe the murders are related, and do not believe them to be hate crimes, law enforcement sources said.

As a volunteer at AVP, Weis made a habit of walking around the community and guiding crime victims afraid of taking that first step into the office, Quinn said.

To date, however, none of the five East End town police departments is using that portion of the program, which has been offered to them at no cost, said Laura Ahearn, director of the nonprofit, which works to prevent sex offenses and aid victims of sex crimes.

«I especially want to thank the New York State Senate Republican Conference for their tireless efforts to promote public safety and respect the needs of victims of crime in the State of New York,» he said.

But Home Office minister Vernon Coaker said that during meetings with policemen, victims of crime and drug addicts over the past few months, «none of them have raised the classification system as a concern that affects them with me».

«Fourteen years ago I, too, became the victim of a crime,» Katko said.

On the second day of her trial for «crimes against humanity», Ivory Coast's former first lady Simone Gbagbo denounced a political trial and said she was victim of «attempted rape» during her arrest in April 2011.

The Governor in the course of the commissioning said it was important for parents to be vigilant as victims of drug addiction can be easily lured into crime which would ultimately threaten peace and development.

Capital punishment «does little to serve victims or deter crime,» Guterres said, adding that most of the UN's 193 members do not carry out executions.

MTA officials said that they would move to recover any profits he would earn from the film because the agency had been a victim of his crimes.

«The people who say they're against this bill need to look victims of serious crime, terrorism and child sex offences in the eye and tell them why they're not prepared to give the police the powers they need to protect the public,» she said.

«I am committed to tackle this evil crime and help protect the innocent victims it yields, which is why today I have signed the Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Human Trafficking which will provide us with a structured framework to introduce minimum rights and protection for all identified victims of trafficking,» said Mr Reid.

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA) is doing a worse job of compensating the victims of violent crime than it was almost a decade ago, MPs have said.

Craft says owners of establishments who would like their employees trained in helping to prevent sexual assault may contact her at the county's Crime Victims Assistance Program office: [phone]

«This law gives law enforcement and victims of crime the opportunity to recover stolen property that may have been sold to a pawnbroker before it is resold or destroyed,» said Legislator Peter Savage.

«I have not, and will not, accept any payment for my work as Vice Chair of the Crime Victims, Crime and Corrections committee,» she said.

Jacqui Smith said the Home Office wanted the BCS to include offences committed against children because of the likelihood of 11 to 16 - year - olds being the victims of street crime.

Signing the treaty would «end the uncertainty victims have faced in the past where they were not recognised as victims of crime and faced possible immigration detention and deportation», he said.

Home secretary Jacqui Smith said the government was aware young people were more likely to be victims of crime rather than perpetrators of it.

«When offenders have to confront the consquences of their crimes and meet their victims, they can come to understand what they have done and the damage they have caused,» Mr Miliband said.

They described him as «strong» and «tough», praising his approach to crime, especially his pro-victim rhetoric - after Mr Blair promised to «rebalance our criminal justice system in favour of the victim» - saying it showed that he genuinely listened to the public.

For example, 28 percent of US - born Latinos said they are less likely to contact police officers if they have been the victim of a crime because they fear that police officers will use this interaction as an opportunity to inquire into their immigration status or that of people they know.

BROOKLYN, NY — Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams sent a letter to President - Elect Donald Trump last week requesting the incoming head of state to meet with Aml El Sokary, a Muslim cop who says she was the victim of a hate crime in Brooklyn on Dec. 3, as well as other members of the NYPD's Muslim Officers Society.

«I have not, and will not, accept any payment for my work as Vice Chair of the Crime Victims, Crime and Correction committee,» Helming said.

«Most importantly, we are concerned that the criminal justice system continue to function in Rensselaer County and that this not create a distraction from our duty to ensure that justice is served for the victims of crime and society at large,» the association said.

«It's a shame today that the Senate chose not to side with the survivors of childhood sexual abuse, and instead continued to aid and abet predators by refusing to fix New York's broken statute of limitations for these abominable crimes,» said Sen. Brad Hoylman (D - Manhattan), who sponsored the Child Victims Act.

«They did a fantastic job,» says Jack Ballantyne of the Sulfolk County Crime Laboratory in Hauppauge, New York, who led the DNA analysis of victims of the TWA flight 800 crash last July.

The prevalence of these crimes has risen in relation to the mass media coverage of them and the proliferation of social media sites that tend to glorify the shooters and downplay the victims, Johnston said.

Experts say that similar techniques could be employed in many other ways, such as analyzing the DNA of South American mummies or crime victims.

«A rape victim is never at fault and we do not want the circumstances in which these assaults take place to cause any victim to doubt that,» said Sean Sutton, Head of the NCA's Serious Crimes Analysis Section.