The Defenders Online | A Civil Rights Blog » crime http://www.thedefendersonline.com A civil rights blog promoting informed discourse on issues of race, justice, equality and democracy. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:40:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Norway http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2011/07/26/norway/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2011/07/26/norway/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 16:27:03 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=18131 By The Editors
As Norway reels, decent people across the globe are again left to ponder the same horrible question that has haunted human society for the last century: What drives sane human beings to believe their ideology justifies mass murder?

]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2011/07/26/norway/feed/ 0 A Murder … And A Question http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2011/01/15/a-murder-%e2%80%a6-and-a-question/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2011/01/15/a-murder-%e2%80%a6-and-a-question/#comments Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:10:14 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=15965 By Lee A. Daniels
“What kind of human being could set another man on fire?

This was the question that Stanley Nelson, a reporter for The Concordia Sentinel, a small weekly newspaper in the Louisiana Delta town of Ferriday, says first spurred him to exhaustively investigate the 1964 murder of a black Delta businessman, allegedly by the Ku Klux Klan.

]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2011/01/15/a-murder-%e2%80%a6-and-a-question/feed/ 0 Gun Dealers Shielded From Scrutiny Over Crime Guns http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/10/31/gun-dealers-shielded-from-scrutiny-over-crime-guns/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/10/31/gun-dealers-shielded-from-scrutiny-over-crime-guns/#comments Mon, 01 Nov 2010 02:19:12 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=15312 By The Editors
For the second time within weeks, a new study has focused attention on the central role a small number of firearms stores in supplying guns that are later used in the commission of crimes.

]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/10/31/gun-dealers-shielded-from-scrutiny-over-crime-guns/feed/ 0 New Momentum for Criminal Justice Reform http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/10/08/new-momentum-for-criminal-justice-reform/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/10/08/new-momentum-for-criminal-justice-reform/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:12:22 +0000 The Editors http://www.thedefendersonline.com/?p=15116 By The Editors
The momentum may be increasing for substantive reform in two areas of the criminal justice system that have fostered significant injustice.

One area involves eyewitness identification. The other involves suspects who confess to a crime during police interrogation – even though they’re innocent. Both have played a critical role in producing the crisis of mass incarceration that has overwhelmed the criminal justice system, damaged the lives of many individuals and their families, and especially undermined the stability of many individual black communities and Black America as a whole.

]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2010/10/08/new-momentum-for-criminal-justice-reform/feed/ 0 Blame A Black Man, Episode… http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/06/02/blame-a-black-man-episode/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/06/02/blame-a-black-man-episode/#comments Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:48:22 +0000 The Editors http://thedefendersonline.com/?p=7909 Lee A. Daniels Sweeten, a blond, white suburban Philadelphia mother of three, briefly drew national attention last week by falsely claiming she and her 9-year-old daughter had been carjacked and abducted by two black men-thus tying her pretend predicament to the most notorious obsession of America's racist past: the hulking black brute ravishing the virginal white female.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/06/02/blame-a-black-man-episode/feed/ 5 Young Black Male Murders Rise; Time to Reinvest in Solutions http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/01/08/young-black-male-murders-rise-time-to-reinvest-in-solutions/ http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/01/08/young-black-male-murders-rise-time-to-reinvest-in-solutions/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:16:27 +0000 The Editors http://thedefendersonline.org/?p=2649 The Editors More young black men are killing each other, and it’s time to stop the madness, says a recent report from Northeastern University which calls for reinvesting in prevention and crime control.]]> http://www.thedefendersonline.com/2009/01/08/young-black-male-murders-rise-time-to-reinvest-in-solutions/feed/ 0