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It is not just money. Lots of scholarly comparisons of different legal systems in developed democracies. The US, due to Bill of Rights, and case law, and work of ACLU, is, for good and for bad one, of the most difficult in which to get a trial conviction. That is why we end up with a huge number...

Really one never knows. In my home city people give brand new high priced coats, tents, clothes. Same homeless person could be in rags one day and brand new clothes another. I think someone had mention authorities mentioned "rough sleeping," which is UK/Aus slang for someone sleeping other than...

I think what we maybe running into here are that there are legal definition/criminal code definitions of stalking. While there is also completely legal casing of home or observing, following, getting information on movements etc of potential victims that would not violate stalking laws, but...

I think the Kohlberer case is not merely about bad reporting, it is illustrative of a specific and broad issue with our media. It is probably not new, sensationalist crime reporting is as old as media. But what we saw between the occurrence of this crime, and the arrest of the subject was the...

Yes, but half the people Rodger killed were Asian men that he bludgeoned or stabbed to death that were his roommates It was also some kind of issue with them as he killed them first. Also the person most seriously injured, paralyzed for life, he directly struck with his car. I do agree he was...

"Known to police" can be a criminals record could easily also simply be a some or many arrests with few or no convictions. Also could mean wellness checks for remand/evaluating for mental illness.

Almost certainly deeply mentally ill, which is very common in homeless

Having more than a bit of training in CQ, that is way more useful than nothing in a knife fight. One certainly could knock someone unconscious with the weighted base. A rolled up newspaper or magazine is useful in a knife fight. Let's keep in mind the attacker likely had no training with a knife...

I think that is most likely. And what I see him carrying looks to be an average size chefs knife. The "huge weapon" seen in stills on escalator is a defender with some kind of furnishing, looks like a stanchion that holds ribbon type gates usted to create lines/queing. If you are going to...

Study after study show that criminals pick on the weak. Even our Chimpanzee cousins, who commit lots more murder than we humans do, pick the weak or situations where t is 5:1 or more when attacking or killing others -- because it lowers risk to attacker. Sad but true.

I think that is most likely. And have we seen gender breakdown of all the victims or just the dead? I am seeing lots of poor reporting, such as "30 inch kitchen knife." Very large kitchen knives are half that length even including handle. 30" is a good sized sword. More likely this was simply...

Well mushrooms are fungus which entire biological kingdom just like plant kingdom and animal kingdom. There are three to four million specifies of fungus and thousands of species of mushrooms. Mushroom positioning is extremely rare. From what I have read among the most common poisoning...

I do think they are suggesting, likely they have "off the record information" (information given by a source but not able to be stated in a story absent another official source) that is more pointed. And for certain they are withholding anything direct due to legal concerns. The UK and...

Agree. Although high resolution video imagery from several days or longer of all the security cameras that may or may not have captured his car a few score of security cameras couple easily be much or most of that 50tb. add in high def smartphone videos from everyone involved as a suspect...

The fact that the person who prepared the food was the only one not poisoned is interesting. That alone would make investigators suspect something if they had not had convincing evidence as to why the preparer herself is the only one who did not consume a lethal or extremely damaging amount. As...

According to the 1969 Lyndon Johnson commission report half the country's households owned at least one firearm in the 1960s. and small town, means a slower police response time, which would mean more, not less, guns or household protection. Only a tiny minority did any hunting whatsoever. We...

As far as we know for certain it was just three guns used, possibly just two. In one the four confirmed cases were a gun was involved it was only brandished and that gun while visually identified by a non expert as a 1911 could have eaily been a browning highs power. so we can only say he used...

You don't get firearm possession by a felon charge unless you have a prior conviction for a felony. So, murder charge aside, it is a driving citation, a weapons felony, and a prior felony of some type.

Yes but that is not the random sample of murder or femicides though. that is the sample of those in the news, including some of the above examples being disproven incorrect stories about killings in the news. "In the news," by its nature, is man bites dog. It means the above sample is, must...

carried a gun? Extremely doubtful. the girs were not in school owned housing, but he was. In washington state (and Idaho) you can neither carry, nor even possesses, a firearms on campus nor in Univ housing (unless you are ex law Enforcement with a special type of enhanced permit.) That 8" knife...