” The FBI has not set a minimum number of casualties to qualify an event as a mass shooting, but U.S. statute (the Investigative Assistance for Violent Crimes Act of 2012) defines a “mass killing” as “3 or more killings in a single incident.” For the purposes of this article, ...
After a series of killings in early 2011, Attorney General Eric H.Holder Jr.asked federal authorities to work with local police departments to try to come up with solutions to the problem. The F.B.I., which has tracked officer deaths since 1937, paid for a study conducted by John Jay ...
Here’s another example. If I told you about 23 000 individual deaths and spent a brief 10 second on each of them, going through the list would take me almost three days. On a personal level like that, 23 000 deaths is an absurd, insane, catastrophe-style event that few people are e...
After a series of killings in early 2011 Attorney General Eric H.Holder Jr.asked federal authorities to work with local police departments to try to come up with solutions to the problem.The F.B.I. which has tracked officer deaths since 1937 paid for a study conducted by John Jay College...
From assaults of women for attending school, "honor" killings of women for being victims of rape or other sexual violence or having premarital sex in some countries, to women being omitted from serving on juries in the United States until 1701 and prevented from voting until 1920, the view ...
Eventually, though, neighbors became suspicious about the missing woman and child, called the police, and Beck and Fernandez were caught. Beck tried to maintain her innocence, but Fernandez spilled the gruesome beans almost immediately. Their last words were about how much they loved each other ....