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This website offers a rubric of the gun laws that are held by each state as of April, 2000. This information is used to help educate the public on gun crime, control, and enforcement. With this information, it is hoped that it would be used to prevent further crimes, injuries, and death caused by inappropriate gun use.

Table showing crime rates, population, etc.

A few days ago the Australian House of Representatives' Standing Committee on Communications published its report on cyber crime and security. This document has the ambitious title "Hackers, Fraudsters and Botnets: Tackling the Problem of Cyber Crime", and is an impressive, almost 300 pages reading with statistics, examples, and of course suggestions on how to solve the cyber crime problem.

This article talks about all the benefits our country would have if we legalized all drugs like countries like Amsterdam does. It would get rid off all organized crime. It would prevent the spread of disease.Reduces violent crimes and theft. People are given clean needles and their doses are monitored. Statistics also show that people who live in this type of a society usually stop using the drug eventually.

Whenever we post on Facebook, twitter, or instagram, we leave traces of our lives and actions. Police can gain access to your social media sites and use it against you in court.

Should bullying be a crime? When a girl from Massachusetts killed herself over a bully contoversy arose. She hasn't been the only teen to committ suicide because of bullying. Making someone committ suicide should not be taken lightly. Words are powerful and to a young teenager bullying and torment takes a huge toll on them. So if bullying comes a crime should someone get 6 months, a year, five years?

New York's stop and frisk policy has led to racial profiling and targeting of law abiding minority citizens.

New York City made stop and search laws in belief that it would lower the rate of violent crimes. Stop and frisk laws allow police to pat down any suspicious person. The amount of people being stopped has reached a high number. Of those many people, it seems that law enforcement is singling out certain races. These races being mainly Latino or African American.

This article argues the fact that the "stop-and-frisk" program implemented in the beginning of the 1990's doesn't help in reducing crime rate; however, there are substantial evidence that say it has been used by NYPD officials as a way of discrimination towards minorities.

This article talks about whether child rapists and child molesters should get the death penalty or at least a life sentence for their crimes. It talks about how child molestes and Rapists have to easy of a punishment right now. They go to prison for a bit, get out, and hurt another child with no remorse.And Child molesters and Rapists cannot be rehabilitated.

There are many forms of slavery still happening today. Explore the different crimes of trafficking that are happening everyday. This issue has not disappeared.

This state thinks so. Read here how modern times changes the view for this former state senator.

Very good article, I am not sure its really a personal freedom, but I really enjoyed reading the article about schools preparing for the anti-bullying curriculum and talks about the Dignity for All Students Act, and this act is not just about the internet , but text messaging as well.

Charles Stimson talks about the disadvantages of marijuana regarding to physical/mental health and crimes.

This article talks about gun control and how it reminds the readers about the 2nd amendment. The public safefty and security is also discussed. The debate is whether or not owing a gun can help hinder crime or is it just dangerous to have?

This is just about an age old debate about the 2nd amendment, the right to bear arms, and about the public's safety. Honestly who should be allowed to own a gun and how good are the regulations on that? People fear that their will be a rise in crimes. Maybe they are right, maybe not. Some see it as protecting themselves and their family.

The writer of this article is the executive director of Law Enforcement against Prohibition and he also on narcotics policing in Maryland, and he wants Marijuana legalized. And I have to say that I agree with him all the way on this. Alot of the time we do things because we know we aren't supposed to, and it makes it that much more exciting. So, in legalizing marijuana he believes that it will reduce the crime. Every year thousands of people are murdered over battling for drug turfs. In legalizing the drug, you would eliminate the middle man, and all the danger that comes with that. Instead, you could buy it in the store or a specialty shop like you would tobacco. I say lets get this ball rollin'!

This article shows the difference between gun control and gun rights. We have the right to bare arms but some believe that does not mean we have the right to bare military grade weapons. At the end of the page it shows the prior congressional vote. The house did reject gun control but split it into two seperate issues one pertaining more towards juvenile crime.

High-tech surveillance networks are providing police and government with the ability to monitor streets, parks and businesses like never before. Police in Sandy have such a system and call it a deterrent to crime. Still, others say it's an invasion of privacy.

Parkour is a new "sport" that is taking over many colleges and is becoming very popular on the streets. Parkour consist of fast movement through the body and can include jumping off buildings jumping over street signs and much more. This article talks about whether or not this so called sport should be allowed and some states have already banned it.

"Law enforcement reminders of the consequences of criminal behavior are supposed to curb illegal activity, but some of these intimidation strategies may be backfiring, especially among youth. In the latest study of stop and frisk policies, in which law enforcement randomly stop individuals for questioning even if they aren't engaged in criminal activity, researchers found that those who were stopped were more likely than those who were not to engage in delinquent behavior later on."

In a New York Times article, author Adam Liptak details the change in law enforcement priorities to preventing terrorist attacks over punishing crimes after they have been committed and how this may be an infringement on our freedom of speech. After the September 11th attack, surveillance of religious and dissident groups and informants in Muslim groups caused early arrests as "material support," in support of terrorist organizations. Simply talking to a terrorist group, even urging these groups to resolve disputes through peaceful means, is considered committing a crime.

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