Before everyone had a cell phone and the capacity to record video on the fly, a police beat down was, by sheer chance, caught on tape in Los Angeles on March 3, 1991. Public fury about racism and police brutality erupted when a portion of the video showing several LAPD officers Tasering, kicking,...
A cop punches a woman in the face over jaywalking on a busy Seattle street. An indepth investigation is underway regarding an incident which occurred on Martin Luther King Jr. Way South at 3:10 p.m. on June 15, 2010. A yet to be identified police officer approached an 18 year old male...
When you work as a probation officer, you play an important role in the criminal justice system. It is your job to make sure that an individual is meeting all of the requirements of his or her parol sentence. You also need to make sure that a person is staying out of trouble and not doing anything...
Jessie Lunderby's nude Playboy photographs may cost her a job. The Arkansas Sheriff's Office is outraged that twenty one year old employee Jessie Lunderby stripped for a series of provocative nude pictures for Playboy. Officials in the Washington County Sheriff's Office in Fayetteville,...
There are many individuals who work within the court system. Such an individual who takes part in the legal proceedings that operate within the court system is referred to as an officer of the court. These individuals may be categorized according to the part of the legal proceeding in which they...
When a court convicts a defendant of a criminal offense, the judge has a few options with regards to sentencing that prove to be commensurate to the offense committed. One such option is supervised release wherein the convicted individual’s behavior is directly supervised by a parole officer upon...
West Memphis, Arkansas, police were shot and killed on Thursday, May 20, 2010 at 11:40 a.m. local time. Two separate shootings allegedly by the same suspects killed two officers and wounded two others. The suspects used an assault weapon and were also fatally shot. City Hall Inspector Bert...
Steve Carell revealed he will be leaving NBC's "The Office" to further his career in film. While promoting his latest film, Date Night, with Tina Fey on BBC Radio, Carell revealed his future Office plans. Interviewer Greg James posed "How long will you stay with "The Office" for? How many more...
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States and the eponym of the Jacksonian Democracy. Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in Waxhaw, North Carolina, or Lancaster, South Carolina, as the border between the states had not been resolved at the time of his birth. Jackson was born...
Johan Santana, NY Mets Pitcher accused of sexual battery. A police report filed in the Lee County Sheriff's Office on October 28, 2009 indicates that Santana allegedly attacked a young woman, identified only as Jane Doe, on golf course in Fort Myers, Florida. The report claims that...
