(Newser) – Police officers are people, too. And like us, they share their hilarious finds on Twitter. Take this example: Police in Murdoch, Western Australia, were executing a search warrant on a house in Perth, relating to a burglary investigation, when they uncovered a rather amusing to-do list, News.com.au reports. It described an individual's busy Saturday laid out with helpful reminders like "go to bus stop" and "go get lunch (chips and gravy)," per Mashable. The last two entries on the 10-item list, adding fuel to the idea that marijuana causes memory problems, were "go home and get a stick" and then "chop up and get stoned"—because, you know, sometimes you forget. Police tweeted a photo of the list, with the caption, "Are ur Saturdays hectic like this!!!" They followed that up with, "Yes, the to do list was authentic, I don't think any of us here could make it up if we tried! #nosenseofhumour." The witty replies flooded in. "At least he had realistic personal goals which he probably achieved," one user quipped. But not all social media users were as amused. "No wonder our homes keep getting broken into. The Murdoch police are too busy embarrassing drug addicts on social media. Grow up," another added, per News.com.au. (The list-writer joins a long tradition of misguided potheads.)
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Thursday, May 15, 2014
What Not to Do When Angry About Pot Dealer
(Newser) – Two strange marijuana-related arrests from the police blotter: Bad strategy: A woman in East Texas got herself arrested after she called police to complain that a dealer had sold her low-quality marijuana, reports the AP. Evelyn Hamilton spent $40 on the pot and says she called the cops when the dealer refused to give her a refund. She was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia—after pulling the pot she had left from her bra as proof.Bad strategy, II: When police pulled over a driver in Maine and found marijuana in the car, he told them it couldn't possibly be his. The reason? He fessed up to having just stolen the vehicle, reports the Franklin Sun Journal. Police say Douglas Glidden was telling truth about the stolen car, but he still faces charges of theft, driving under the influence, and, yes, possession of marijuana.
Thursday, July 12, 2012
Stupid Criminals: 911 Doesn't Care About Your Sandwich
By JJ Duncan on I've been to Subway enough times to know that if I want an edible sandwich, I have to make it VERY clear that I only want the tiniest bit of mayonaisse on my Cold Cut Trio.
Nothing is worse than biting into a footlong and feeling it coat your chin and shirt in that slimy discount mayo they smother all over a perfectly good sammich. I've complained. Once I even got a coupon for a free sandwich. But it never occurred to me that there might be a higher authority to whom I could voice my complaints.
Nothing is worse than biting into a footlong and feeling it coat your chin and shirt in that slimy discount mayo they smother all over a perfectly good sammich. I've complained. Once I even got a coupon for a free sandwich. But it never occurred to me that there might be a higher authority to whom I could voice my complaints.
I must not be nearly as clever as Reginald Peterson, the 42-year-old Florida man who became so angry with Subway's Sandwich Artists that he did take his complaints to a higher authority.
He dialed 911.
Then he dialed again when police didn't show up fast enough.
Then he got arrested for placing false 911 calls.
Peterson was not willing to compromise. His sandwich needed a police escort to be made correctly and he wasn't leaving until that's exactly what happened... or until police handcuffed him and threw him in a squad car.
Oh well, maybe the sous chefs down at County will be more attentive to the way old Reggie likes his sandwich made.
(Reginald Peterson's mug shot pictured above)
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Thursday, November 24, 2011
All You Need To Know About Crime Scene Investigation Programs
Many people think that interest in the criminal scene investigation field is a new thing, especially due to popular television shows such as 'CSI' and 'Law and Order.' However, this is not the case as colleges have been offering criminal scene investigation degree programs for many years and well before these shows were even thought of. A crime scene investigation degree, otherwise known as a degree in forensic science is a great program to get involved in and as plenty of colleges offer programs in this area there is plenty of options available. The sorts of topics you can expect include crime, blood splatter, and biological specimen analysis and lots more.
If you are interested in a degree in crime scene investigation then there are plenty of accredited forensics colleges to choose from depending on your personal preferences. The school that you choose will largely depend on what you want to do in your future career as difference programs will train people for different jobs. For example, some courses will be more focused on crime scene investigations whereas others may concentrate more on lab work or computer forensics.
Most colleges that specialize in crime scene investigation will offer two types of programs: bachelor degrees and master degrees. A lot of the jobs associated with criminal justice require supplementary training which can take years. For example, if you are looking for a career in DNA lab work then a good candidate will already have qualifications in chemistry, biochemistry, genetics and biology. And if you are applying for a MA degree then it is beneficial to take on some forensic work experience otherwise you may end up having to take extra courses to get this experience.
The subject of crime scene investigation spans many programs including microscopy, forensic molecular biology, crime scene reconstruction, population statistics and much more. These are the sorts of courses that you can expect to undertake when you enroll on a masters course at a forensic college. You should expect to spend a lot of your time in the lab as this is where valuable skills will be honed. If you want to be a forensic technician, it is really important to have access to direct lab work as this will enable you to learn important methods and techniques and practice the basics involved in forensic science. Clearly, this is a hands-on degree program which means that distance learning really doesn't work for this sort of course. Those who choose to study a degree in crime scene investigation without actually doing in-class work will suffer as they won't learn the sort of skills that other students will. It is possible to do an online crime scene investigation degree program but these are generally not recommended by experts within the field.
When it comes to applying for a forensic college, you need to make sure that you have clean personal record. Most colleges will not allow you onto the program if there are any references to drug use or personal convictions. There are even some US states such as Miami who will not allow you onto the course if you a smoker!
A career in crime scene investigation can be incredibly rewarding and interesting and once in the industry, most people have a job for life. However, the training and studying period of your education will require a lot of determination and hard work; it could also take a few years. It is well worth it once completed though, so if you think a degree in crime scene investigation is for you, why not apply for a program.
Find detailed information about top criminal justice schools which are offering crime scene analysis programs at CriminalJusticeU.com. Choose the best criminal justice school for you and start your path to a rewarding career.
Friday, October 14, 2011
Know About Cyber Crimes and Protect Yourself From Hackers
In the world of cyber crimes, one has to be very vigilant to prevent loss of highly sensitive information from their system. If you wish to protect yourself from online scams, it is essential to have knowledge about hackers and various cyber crimes.
Hackers
Hackers are individuals who intrude into others system without permission in search of information (hacking). They can be categorized into three groups depending on the degree of their ability to commit cyber crimes. Beginners are generally kids, who intrude for fun. The other two groups include intermediate and advanced where the advanced hackers are difficult to trace.
Cyber crimes
Hacking: Hacking means intruding into other's system without permission and this is the most common cyber crime we come across.
Process of Hacking:
To intrude into a system, the hacker follows the following steps:
·Identifies system that is vulnerable to hacking. In case of large corporations, hackers keeps dialing the extensions associated with that office to find out a phone that is connected to the computer. He uses that system for hacking sensitive information about the company.
·After identifying a vulnerable system, he makes attempts to break the password. If he succeeds in his attempts, he will have all the files of the company under his custody.
·To protect from being identified, the hacker deletes the log file of the system every time he intrudes the system.
In addition to hacking, there are many other cyber crimes that cause huge losses if unidentified.
Phishing cyber crimes:
These crimes are committed by setting up a site that is identical to a genuine bank site or sites like PayPal. Then, the phishing site sends out a mail requesting for bank or credit card details with link to the bank website. If the user clicks on this site, he will be directed to a phishing site which grabs all the details he enters. The hacker can make use of this information to carryout transactions.
Another phishing crime is to request the customers to purchase articles from a phony online store. The offender collects few orders and disappears without delivering the goods.
Trojan Phishing is a phishing scam in which the criminal sets up a connection with Trojan infected systems and continues to obtain information from the systems. He may even install software such as keylogging software, which provides information about each and every keystroke. This sort of cybercrime involving the keylogging software is highly dangerous.
The above cyber crimes can be prevented by practicing the below given two simple measures:
·Proper identification of the URL of the site before logging into the site.
·Use of updated versions of firewall, spyware, browsers and the operating system.
Last note, beware of hackers and avoid becoming victims of cyber crimes. Government bodies throughout the world are working together to identify solutions for cyber crimes.
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Tuesday, October 11, 2011
More Gun Crimes, Less Sanity About Gun Control
Every time a gun crime happens in this country, the mainstream media give it sensationalistic coverage, and liberals cover their mouths with their hands and then remove them and start howling about the necessity of even more gun control legislation than the historically high levels we have now.
As the just published third edition of John Lott's classic More Guns, Less Crime exhaustively demonstrates, liberals are moving in exactly the wrong direction in their zeal to stop gun crime.
Lott's central thesis is that (1) criminals are less likely to commit violent crimes if they know there are significant numbers of concealed carry permit holders with weapons, (2) gun restrictions make it harder for law-abiding citizens to obtain guns for self-defense, (3) gun restrictions have no effect on criminals' intent or ability to obtain weapons, and (4) gun restrictions thus disarm only potential crime victims, whereas reduced gun restrictions arm citizens and frighten off criminals.
Lott supports his hypothesis via mountains of data analyzed at the national, state, and county level, looking at both overall rates of crimes and the more relevant changes in trends before and after permissive nondiscretionary laws are passed. He examines multiple categories of crime including murder, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery. He shows that his results hold, both controlling and not controlling for every demographic variable under the sun, as well as unrelated but important crime rate indicators such as arrest rates, policing strategies, and national trends.
Lott shows that the number of accidental deaths from increased possession of licensed weapons is so minor that it is dwarfed by the number of additional lives saved via increased citizen defense against would-be criminals.
Lott notes the astonishing fact that loosening gun restrictions has had such a positive impact on reducing states' crime rates over the last two decades that not a single state legislature has even scheduled a debate on repealing nondiscretionary gun laws once they have been passed.
In her semiweekly column in The New York Times, Gail Collins frequently mocks pro-gun legislators for opposing the slightest, most seemingly inconsequential gun control restrictions, such as not recognizing permits across state lines, banning guns in national parks, and instituting gun show sales regulations.
In fact, Lott's book just about literally shows that having as many law-abiding citizens with permits as possible, with as few restrictions on obtaining and keeping permits as possible, and the carrying of concealed weapons allowed in as many places as possible, reduces crime to the greatest degree.
For example, Lott finds that murder, robbery, and aggravated assault all increase in states that adopt "one-gun-a-month" rules, and that rape increases after the imposition of a mandatory waiting period. Rape, robbery, and burglary rates increase in states that pass "safe-storage" rules, and rape increased significantly after the adoption of the 1994 anti-gun Brady law. The number of permits in a state significantly predicts reduced crime rates for murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, and violent crime overall.
Lott's findings are instructive in light of the recent University of Texas-Austin shooting, in which college sophomore Colton Tooley unleashed a hail of bullets from his semiautomatic weapon onto students in the street, then headed to the library and shot himself. The shooting echoed the infamous 1966 shooting on the university's campus, in which student Charles Whitman climbed to the observation deck of the UT clock tower and fired into the crowd, killing 13 people and injuring 2.
UT Austin, like most college campuses, doesn't allow concealed carry gun permits for students or even security guards. The state legislature introduced a bill to allow such permits in 2009, but Democrats defeated it. Republican state senators plan to reintroduce the bill in the 2011 session. The recent UT Austin shooting could have been prevented or mitigated by the widespread knowledge on campus that guards and possibly students were carrying concealed weapons.
But the Associated Press reported anti-gun advocate and graduate student John Woods saying, "I can't think of any way that the situation yesterday would have been improved by additional guns." Hmm... maybe one of the additional gun holders could have threatened or shot the attacker before he sprayed more bullets into the crowd? Or maybe the gunman wouldn't have pulled his crazy stunt if he had known there were numerous law-abiding permit holders on campus with concealed weapons ready to stop him?
Woods should know better, given that he was attending Virginia Polytechnic Institute during its 2007 mass shooting-another bloody massacre that could have been prevented or mitigated if the school had allowed guns on campus and one in which several of Woods' friends were among the 32 killed.
Lott's book, whose foundational empirical study was comprehensive and prescient enough to be capable of answering virtually every possible objection when it first came out in 1998 (in a chapter containing detailed responses to two dozen hypothetical counterarguments to his work), responded to critics' actual arguments in the second edition in 2000, and to additional arguments in the third edition released this year. Lott did so via references to his original analyses, new analyses done on the original data, new analyses done on new data, and new analyses done on critics' data. Thus, the most recent More Guns bears the distinction of featuring Lott's defense against critics of his defense against critics of his defense against critics of his original study. I think he's pretty well answered any fair and reasonable person's concerns by now.
Lott concludes More Guns, 3rd edition thusly: "The gun-control debate has changed dramatically over the last decade. In the past the question was how much guns caused crime. The debate now is over whether there are benefits from gun ownership and how large those benefits are" (emphasis added).
He's wrong about the debate over whether there are benefits from gun ownership-Lott's work has conclusively settled the matter.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Crime & Punishment: Anthony testifies about Web search
Join us Monday beginning at 10pm ET. In Crime & Punishment, we'll have the latest in the Casey Anthony murder trial. 
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Crime & Punishment: Pathologist testifies about duct tape
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