We Need to Fix the Racist War on Drugs
The War on Drugs is America’s longest. Popularized in 1971 by President Richard Nixon — who declared drug abuse “public enemy number one” —, the War on Drugs has used…
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Lucy Letby: The Alleged Baby Murderer
Lucy Letby, a 32-year-old former nurse at the Countess of Chester Hospital in England, is on trial for the alleged murder of seven babies and the alleged attempted murder of…
The Eliza Fletcher Case
Eliza Fletcher embodied the small-town girl: genuine, athletic, amiable, and a nature lover. On September 2nd, Eliza was brutally murdered, leading to the arrest of Cleothea Abston, a man with…
The Saskatchewan Stabbings
At 5:40 AM on Sunday, September 4, 2022, Canadian police were called to the James Smith Cree Nation, a reservation for indigenous people in the province of Saskatchewan. Minutes later,…
NYC Crime Spiked in 2021
Many urban areas are known as hubs for criminal activity, as the correlation between city size and violent crime rates is well documented. Indeed, many cities in the United States…
Closed: The Investigation of the Murder of Emmett Till
The reinvestigation of the murder of Emmett Till that began in 2017 has been closed by the United States Justice Department with no charges made. Emmett Till was a Black…