http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1480393.html
This story was about homicide that happend recently Minneapolis.
According to police officer, the latest victim is a man in his 50's.
The identity of victim has not been released.
There were 48 homicides at this point last year, according to the report.
Suspect arrested in abduction, rape
This story is about the rape accident that was happened Oct.4 at the light-rail station.
Due to security cameras and the victim's help the suspect was arrested 4. p.m Friday.
The arrested mn has no permanent address nd being held in the Heneppin County Jail pending charges.
I think the reporter pointed several good points in this article.
The first one is usefulness of the security camera. According to this articale, all of Metro Transit;s 17 LRT stations, 27 traind cars and 850 buses have video cameras.
The second one is why it was happened at the light rail stop. The reporter pointed out that public places, such as bus stops to be good places to take advantage of women by rapists.
I think furher investigation could've made by the reporter, such as how to prevent rape at the public space.
http://www.startribune.com/467/story/1469598.html
This story is about street fight that was happened Saturday night.
The victims were stabbed with a sickle during the fight that began about 10:15 p.m.outside a house in the 1200 block of Bush Avenue.
Basically, this report is based on Kare 11 news reporting.
The reporter from Associated Press didn't do any additional investigation or interview about this crime.
I don't think this is right, ethically.
The reporter could've interview police officer or victim.
That's what I think about this report.
This story was about human trafficking through the internet Web.
A police officer said, the sheer volume of prostituted women and girls has exploded in recent years, as the Internet has made buying selling of sex both anonymous and swift.
While prostitution investigations for years have uncovered slave-like conditions, trafficking has emerged as a unique category of crime, these days.
The report found that 48percent of the 106 service providers helped at least on victim of human trafficking in 2007, up from 43 percent the previous year. They had assisted 446 female victims, 62 child victims and one male victim.
I think new medium always brings benefits and problem. Actually, new technology has neutral value. The problem is how to use it correctly.
When internet comes out first, anonymous was benefit. However as time goes by, people use that for negative purpose.
I think to prevent this kind of crime, we need stronger and practical law that can apply.
This story is about the hit-and-run accident that was happened Saturday morning.
A man authorities believe was intoxicated was struck by a vehicle and hauled for a block and half on the hood before tumbling off when the driver slammed on the brakes.
Police is looking for the driver and three passengers who fled on foot.
--> I think in this case the reporter could have had suspect's appearance such as clothing or face.
Fortunately,the pedestrian, 26 year old man, was taken to a hospital with injuries but there were no life-threatening.
-->The reporter could have interview him.
N.Y Times reported that two students were shot and wounded on the Delaware State university Campus in Dover around 1 p.m. Wednesday.
Delaware State University’s main campus in Dover has been in lockdown mode since early this morning, as police hunt for whoever shot and wounded two students shortly before 1 a.m. Entrance gates are closed, classes canceled, staff and commuter students warned to stay away, and students who live on campus directed to stay in their dorm rooms until further notice.
By midafternoon, the police said they had identified two “people of interest� in the case — both students, it seems — and were talking to one of them. But there is still no one they are prepared to call a suspect, let alone any arrests — and the university remains locked down.
Curious expression, “lockdown.� As far as The Lede can tell, it started out as a bit of penitentiary jargon, referring to what the guards would do with a cell block when trouble was brewing: lock it down, with the inmates in their cells and the exits sealed. It was meant to prevent escape.
In recent years, though, it has taken on a very different meaning, especially in the context of schools and colleges: hunkering down inside when danger is outside.
Especially after the Columbine shootings in Colorado, “lockdown drills� have become familiar rituals at elementary and secondary schools across the country, with students and teachers practicing how to bar the door, stay away from the windows and keep quiet until the all-clear is sounded. It can feel a lot like the duck-and-cover air raid drills of the Cold War — except that the threat is less abstract and a whole lot closer to home.
The demand for such security procedures is so great that an industry has sprung up to help schools implement them.
And schools are not hesitating to lock down whenever anything remotely threatening seems to be happening nearby: Just this morning, two high schools in Santa Paula, Calif., were locked down while police pursued a man through the neighborhood who they thought might have been armed. According to the Associated Press’s account, the man evidently had run a few red lights in a banged-up vehicle and then, when a police officer tried to pull him over, had fled on foot. The lockdown was called off after about an hour, though it wasn’t clear whether the man had been apprehended.
After the mass murder on the Virginia Tech campus in April, colleges and universities have been looking at ways they can lock down, too. It’s a much more complex proposition for a sprawling urban campus than for a single building in the suburbs, of course, and one of the highest hurdles is getting the word out about what is going on.
And as Carlos Holmes, the spokesman for Delaware State, pointed out in a news conference today, different institutions mean different things when they say “lockdown.� In Dover, the university has been arranging for students to be able to get from the dorms to the dining halls, or to leave campus if they want to, with a police escort. They just shouldn’t be wandering around outside on their own.
Everywhere these lockdown plans have been used, the M.O. seems to be to err on the side of caution — to lock down first and ask questions later. It’s easy to understand why Delaware State officials went that route this morning: no one wanted a repeat of Virginia Tech, where the authorities were excoriated for assuming too quickly and for too long that the first of Seung-Hui Cho’s shootings were an isolated incident, and failed to head off the killing spree that it became. No indications have surfaced that the Delaware State shootings are anything like that, but today no one was taking chances.
The question becomes, when does the prudent reaction become overreaction? With the weekend impending anyway, Delaware State has 48 hours yet before the question of how long to keep the campus locked down will start to become a pressing one — if the shooting had happened on a Tuesday, say, the timeline would be much more compressed. But if the police don’t have a suspect in custody by Monday morning, what then?
On a larger scale, if the threshold for lockdowns is set too low, and too many of them turn out to be unnecessary or ludicrous, the danger exists that people will stop taking them seriously. It happened with “duck and cover,� and later with school bomb scares in the early 1970’s, which seemed to be called in every time some mischievous eighth-grader wanted to ditch a math test. Eventually, the same societal immune reaction that sometimes goes overboard now could be dulled into under-reaction, with potentially tragic consequences.
It’s time for congress to read the 2nd amendment in its entirety and enact some real gun-control legislation.
This story was about burglar which was happened in Kentucky.
Michael W.Hobbs,36, of Waco,Ky pleaded guilty to five counts of bulgar. He said he learned how to rob homes by watching the Discovery Channel show "It takes a thief." He was sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Television's effects on crimes has been a controversial issue. When Columbine High School massacre was happened in 1999, some people blamed for the TV show "South Park" and rock musician "Marilyn Manson," according to Michael Moore's documentary film "Bowling for Columbine"
There have been many theories to try to explain how people are impacted by TV program. Many theorists tried to prove their hypothesis, but it's been still studied.
Making a useful and helpful TV program is producers' responsibility, but how to accept that program is viewer's responsibility. PD can't control viewer's mind and thought.
Therefore, no one can't blame for the TV show for a crime.
A gun safety has been a controversial issue in USA.
From the Columbine High School massacre in 1999 to Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, possessing a gun has caused many accidents.
Saturday night, another gun shooting accident was happened at the Target Center, Minneapolis.
The shooting was happened about 10:45 p.m. during a break between bouts at the "World Fighting Championships- Downtown Throwdown. Fortunately, no one was shot or injured during the incident.
Police spokeswoman Sgt. Tammy Diedrich said it is the first shooting inside the Target Center in her 20 years on the force.
Although there was no victim,how many more people do have to die because of the shooting accident in the future?
A stricter law has to be applied to prevent these incident.