By Allan Lengel For AOL News Despite a sour economy and disturbingly high unemployment, property crime dropped in 2009 for the seventh year in a row, according to FBI statistics released today. Violent crime also declined for the third consecutive year. The FBI statistics show the murder and non-negligent manslaughter rate dropped by 7.3 percent…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News The so-called “underwear bomber” who allegedly tried to blow up a Detroit-bound plane showed up in chains today in a federal courtroom in Detroit and hinted that he might want to plead guilty to some charges, according to newspaper reports. Nigerian national Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, 24, also fired his…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Futuristic law enforcement equipment keeps improving. The latest: Improvements in iris scan technology that can read people’s eyes to identify them, USA Today reports. It’s considered a quicker alternative to fingerprinting. USA Today reports that the Department of Homeland Security will run a two-week test in October of commercially sold iris…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The infamous underwear bomber who tried blowing up a plane arriving in Detroit on Christmas day last year is due in court Monday, the Associated Press reported. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab of Nigeria is expected to appear before U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds in downtown Detroit, AP reported. She’s expected to set…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Amid the seemingly endless stream of depressing news out of Mexico involving violence and drugs comes a little bit of good news. The Associated Press reports that Mexican Marines in the central state of Puebla on Sunday captured Sergio Villarreal Barragan, leader of the embattled Beltran Leyva drug cartel. Known as…
By The Washington Post Editorial Page WASHINGTON — SECRETARY OF STATE Hillary Rodham Clinton caused a stir last week by suggesting that Mexico’s drug-trafficking gangs were beginning to resemble an insurgency, like that which has plagued Colombia. She’s right in the sense that the cartels have come to effectively control parts of the country, where…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nine former DEA administrators have fired off a letter to Attorney Gen. Eric Holder Jr. asking that he step in if Californians in November vote to legalize marijuana, the Associated Press reports. AP reports that the administrators wrote an Aug. 24 letter to Holder asking that he file a lawsuit challenging…
