by jpitney | Oct 6, 2022 | Crime, Journalism, Journalists, Nevada
Sarah Ellison at WP: It was after midnight when Las Vegas Review-Journal executive editor Glenn Cook hit send on a short email to the staff. “I’m beyond devastated to be sending you this message,” he wrote. Veteran investigative reporter Jeff German had been found...
by jpitney | Aug 1, 2022 | Congress, Crime, Violence
Andrew Solender at Axios: A series of high-profile security incidents is rattling members of Congress and prompting Capitol security officials to take major steps to shore up lawmakers’ security. Why it matters: Threats against lawmakers have risen...
by jpitney | Jun 22, 2022 | Crime, Insurrection, Public Service
Yesterday’s J6 hearing featured brave public servants who paid a price for doing their duty Rusty Bowers: It is painful to have friends who have been such a help to me turn on me with such rancor. I may in the eyes of men not hold correct opinions or act...
by jpitney | May 10, 2022 | Crime, Journalism, Journalists, Mexico
AP reports: Just as Mexican journalists prepared to protest the killing of a journalist last week, word came Monday that two more were shot to death in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz, raising to 11 the number of such killings in the country this year. The Veracruz...
by jpitney | Mar 2, 2022 | Crime
Prof. Michael Fortner at NYT: It’s critical for reformers not to misread the great racial awakening. Even as many took to the streets to “defund the police,” city residents, especially those who have endured histories of overpolicing and underprotection, hold...
by jpitney | Dec 2, 2021 | Bipartisanship, Crime, Police
At Dividied We Fall, Michael Javen Fortner writes: “This concerted nationwide attack on police is nothing less than the gravest assault on the rule of law in modern times,” U.S. Senator Tom Cotton blared a few months ago. In a partisan broadside, he added, “The simple...
