Sentences with phrase «serious about crime»

It is clear from the short titles listed above that our federal government is serious about crime.

Not exact matches

If Jamie Dimon were in prison today for the crimes he committed in 2012 it would mean the nation was serious back then about the future good and welfare of society.

It is defined in Article 2 of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG) as «any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the groups conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.»

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.

If Gov. Cuomo and the Legislature are serious about streamlining the budget then CoBIS ought to be abolished and its resources reallocated by the State Police to proven crime - fighting programs.

«Allowing the victims» relatives to speak in court is about the criminal justice system being prepared to listen and learn from those most directly affected by the most serious of all crimes.»

The IND will also work much more closely with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (Soca)- anecdotal evidence suggests about three - quarters of illegal entrants are brought to the UK through criminal gangs.

The letter read in part, «I would like to share with you serious concern regarding the reasons that motivated this decision, notably the repeated failure of the FIU Nigeria to address concerns regarding the protection of confidential information as well as concerns about the legal basis and the FIU's independence vis - à - vis the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

On Thursday, the European commission issued a pointed statement about the Danish referendum, saying co-operation on cross-border serious and organised crime and international terrorism «must not in any way equal full membership of Europol».

Aaron Biller, president of the Upper West Side Neighborhood in the Nineties group said members are thinking seriously about reinstating an overnight block watch, which they used when crime was more serious in the 1990s.

After talking about the issue of sanctuary cities on «The Brian Lehrer Show» — she argues the city's current rules offer protection for crimes she deems too serious to shield from the federal government — people encouraged her to run, she said.

Commissioner Bratton gave a serious speech about the NYPD's crime - fighting plan of action following the jokes about the mayor's chronic tardiness.

«I said this is a model, and I know other cities have similar programs, that could address the fair concerns people have about those who commit serious crimes, but respect millions of others who are part of the fabric of our communities,»» the mayor said he told Sessions and Trump.

Sir Menzies said: «A party which is serious about social justice can not fail to be serious about preventing crime and enforcing the rules.

He defended his actions and refused to acknowledge that the prosecutors raised serious ethical questions about his activities, even as they said they did not have the legal grounds to accuse anyone of a crime.

He has since indicated he will look first to remove some three million he believes are guilty of serious crimes, then consider what to do about the remainder.

Asked about Raise the Age and the final negotiations in Albany, de Blasio said Friday morning on WNYC, «I care that whatever we do is going to focus on rehabilitating these young people although, obviously, some young people commit very serious crimes.

Even after making statistical allowances for factors such as psychiatric disorders, economic status, and prior violent acts, they found that those who watched 1 to 3 hours of TV per day were about 60 % more likely to get in a serious fight, threaten someone, or use a weapon to commit a crime than those who watched less than an hour a day.

(Google it) You will learn about the serious crimes we commit against ourselves.

I think about committing serious crime so I can be sent to prison.

As complicated as it is with all of the police surrounding the house, the boys have also unwittingly put an associate of some serious baddies under gunpoint, and with evidence of many past crimes in the house, the local underworld affiliates are a bit nervous about the prospect of their operations, kept in the form of a DVD, being found out.

In that same year, these students were victims of about 186,000 serious violent crimes at school (that is, rape, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault).

It became apparent there was a lot more to say about this crime — its wide ripples, its possible antecedents, the people whose lives it dramatically changed and what we can learn from them about love, pain, forgiveness, and serious shortcomings in our mental health and criminal justice systems.

The crime rate applies more where you looked at things like serious predatory lending and inflated home values — where older people were talked into refinancing their house that was worth about $ 40k for a loan of about $ 80k so they could lower their payments by $ 75 / month, or those who really didn't understand what they were signing were talked into majorly inflated prices for homes in areas not worth it.

There's some very important information in that guidance document about structuring, which is a fairly serious crime that you can commit if you break up your deposits to avoid reporting.

He added: «I think it's regrettable that people have been so quiescent about what the Serious Organised Crime Act has done to people who want to demonstrate.

When we've finally gotten serious about global warming, when the impacts are really hitting us and we're in a full worldwide scramble to minimize the damage, we should have war crimes trials for these bastards â $» some sort of climate Nuremberg.

UPDATE February 2018: Just for the sake of completeness, a reference to the situation of Jacques Cassandri, who did boast about a serious crime (a robbery in a Societe Generale vault in 1976) in a book.

More recently I have written about the serious contemporary problem engendered by false accusations which is leading, in a small number of cases, to men and women serving long prison sentences for crimes they almost certainly did not commit.

Arguments about Serbian atrocities would have cut no ice: Milosovic's crimes, though serious, were not in the same league as those of Saddam Hussein, and the removal of Saddam Hussein is no longer seen as a justification for Operation Telic.

The Serious Crime Bill tackles female genital mutilation, makes provision about involvement in organised crime groups and creates an offence of possession of guidance about committing sexual offences against chilCrime Bill tackles female genital mutilation, makes provision about involvement in organised crime groups and creates an offence of possession of guidance about committing sexual offences against chilcrime groups and creates an offence of possession of guidance about committing sexual offences against children.

The Nassau County crime lab was shut down in February 2011 after county officials learned police had known for months about serious problems with its drug analysis testing without informing anyone.

A few months before that, the St. Paul, Minn., police department's crime lab suspended its drug analysis and fingerprint examination operations after two assistant public defenders raised serious concerns about the reliability of its testing practices.

Here John Burgar, Head of Investigations at RGL Forensics, talks to Lawyer Monthly about the current work of the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the UK, and the current government agendas for confronting fraud crimes across the nation.

Justice Iacobucci and three others dissented, arguing that independent courts should resist «irrational public fears» and «outrage» about «a highly publicized serious crime».

Legislation such as the Enterprise Act 2002 and the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 (SOCPA 2005) has placed immunity from prosecution on a statutory footing and the Office of Fair Trading has published detailed guidance about how immunity can be secured.

People understandably fear that their job applications will be rejected if they have a criminal history and will lie about this history regardless of how serious or trivial their crime.

The Governments in question have determined that mandatory minimum sentences for serious property offences and home burglary are not unreasonable, unjust or non proportional when taking into account the nature of the crimes in question, their repeat nature and the level of community concern about them.