Crime

2024-11-17: One more failure in care: locking up children in dangerous places

2024-11-17

Fears grow over UK children at risk placed in illegal care homes: Many children subject to Deprivation of Liberty orders are being locked up in wholly unsuitable places.

2024-11-09: 📚 Finished reading Rough Justice by Wendy Joseph.

2024-10-29

Hundreds of ballots possibly burned after Vancouver ballot box arson: FBI investigating: Doesn’t bode well for next week’s US election.

2024-10-21

The ‘Internet of Things’ helping to provide key evidence in criminal trials: The Crown Prosecution Service’s take on the utility of our data-gathering gadgets.

2024-10-15

Armed man arrested near Trump’s California rally was plotting to kill him, police say: Are there usually quite so many assassination attempts on a US presidential candidate?

2024-10-04

Digital Content Piracy Is on the Rise: Not very surprising given ‘legitimate’ services are raising prices, reducing libraries, adding adverts and generally making the experience of using them worse.

2024-09-27

Eric Adams charged with taking bribes and foreign campaign contributions: Another US politico-crime first - Adams is the first sitting New York City mayor to be subject to criminal charges.

2024-09-22

Criminal Investigative Analysis: Part 1 of 4 of a Law Enforcement Bulletin article I found when looking up whether the Behavioural Analysis Unit from “Criminal Minds” was real - it is, but what they do is usually rather different.

2024-09-19: Now Hezbollah's walkie-talkies are exploding

2024-09-07: Fake streamers listening to fake music by fake artists on Spotify allegedly made a single fraudster at least $10 million

2024-08-14: So far in 2024, one woman in the UK has allegedly been killed by a man every three days on average. …

2024-08-13: The UK far right riots show the days of overt and violent racist behaviour in the UK are far from over

2024-07-16: 404 Media reveals the “Face Fraud” marketplace, wherein for a few dollars you can buy a …

2024-07-14: Contra the New Yorker, Christopher Snowdon gives us some reasons to believe that the case …

2024-07-02: Last month Ticketmaster got hacked by a group known as ShinyHunters, the same group that previously …

2024-06-29: New scandal dropped: The Conservative officials who bet on the election date based on inside knowledge

2024-06-24: Another huge NHS data leak following a ransomware attack

2024-05-30: Donald Trump has been convicted on all 34 counts of falsifying business records in his historic …

2024-05-22: The New Yorker suggests there was little evidence behind the conviction of Lucy Letby

2024-05-19: In reassuring news, it turns out that the security code needed to get into the UK’s National …

2024-05-03: Tom Hunt's predicament is a perfect example of why voter ID laws are usually bad laws

2024-05-03: For future reference, there is a website where you can find out what your local candidates for the …

2024-04-19: Let's not make the update to the 1824 Vagrancy Act worse than the original

2024-04-18: Trump forced to see mean memes about him shared by prospective jurors (from Rolling Stone) Donald …