Nicaragua’s government has committed serious and systematic crimes against humanity, and a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts is calling for international sanctions against the government. The three-person body said the government has committed, and continues to commit, acts of torture, extrajudicial executions, and arbitrary detention since 2018. Experts say they had documented over […]
Studies Find Immigrants Commit Less Crime than US-born Citizens
March 28, 2017 By
Two prominent criminal justice research and advocacy groups, The Sentencing Project and Cato Institute, released two separate studies this week; their findings indicate immigrants commit fewer crimes and are incarcerated at a much lower rate than U.S. citizens. “All immigrants are less likely to be incarcerated than natives relative to their shares of the population,” […]
Latinos are Less Likely To Report Crime According to New Policy Link Survey
May 8, 2013 By
A new survey commissioned by Policy Link found that Latinos are less likely to contact police if they are the victims of a crime due to fear of prosecution because of their legal status. 45 percent of Latinos said they were less likely to inform police officers about a crime due […]
Guest Blogger: Robert Valencia “A Silver Lining in the Juvenile Justice System”
March 22, 2013 By
The string of shootings in Newtown, Aurora, and Oak Creek last year would make some reconsider establishing ‘stop-and-frisk’ policies in several violence-ridden U.S. cities. Most recently, an article by The Chicago Tribune’s Stephanie D. Neely on March 1, claimed that stop-and-frisk policies are needed in an attempt to curb gun violence in Chicago. According to […]
Anti-Latino Hate Crimes Increased in 2010
November 15, 2011 By
The percentage of anti-Latino hate crimes was at a ten-year high in 2010, according to a report released on Monday by the FBI. The FBI’s Hate Crime Statistics, 2010 report revealed that 66.6% of victims of ethnically-motivated hate crimes in 2010 were “targeted because of an anti-Hispanic bias.” Despite ethnically-motivated hate crimes having fallen in […]
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