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Weekend Series on Crime History: J. Edgar Hoover Testifies on the Hill About Gambling
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Justice Department: Violence Against Women Plummeted Over Past Decade
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The rate of women and girls 12 or older who are being sexually assaulted has decreased 64% over the past decade, the Justice Department reported Thursday, CBS News reports. In 2010, for example, 270,000 rapes or sexual assaults were investigated, compared to 560,000 in 1995 CBS News wrote. The biggest drops occurred…
Congressional Committee to Investigate Search for New FBI Headquarters
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A congressional subcommittee plans to launch an investigation into the FBI’s search for a new headquarters, a move that could delay or derail the project the Washington Business Journal reports. Some in Congress are questioning why the facility needs to be Metro accessible and how to maximize the value of the current…
Secret Service Plans to End Public Tours of White House to Save Money
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Secret Service plans to save $2 million by ending public tours of the White House beginning March 9, CNN reports. It’s a small fraction of the cuts that need to be made to absorb $84 million in reduction as part of the sequestration, CNN reported. The Secret Service pays 37 uniformed officers…
FBI’s Investigation into Insane Clown Posse Began After Two Salt Lake City Arrests
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI’s decision to label fans of the Insane Clown Posse as a nationwide gang threat was made after just two arrests, Wired.com reports. Fans of the Detroit-based rapping duo were part of a “loosely-organized hybrid gang” that’s “forming more organized subsets and engaging in more gang-like criminal activity,” the FBI concluded…
ATF Admits Mistakes Were Made During Botched Raid at Milwaukee Store
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The head of the ATF’s St, Paul Field Division acknowledged mistakes were made during a botched undercover sting operation of gun and drug dealers at a store in Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. The Journal Sentinel recently exposed serious problems during a 10-month ATF sting. Among them: the theft of nearly…
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James Yacone, head of Denver FBI, Leaving to Head Up Elite Bureau Unit in Virginia
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com After nearly two years as special agent in charge of the Denver FBI office, James F. Yacone is on his way out to head up an elite FBI unit called Critical Incident Response Group in Virginia, the Denver Post reports. James F. Yacone plans to exit March 15, and he’ll replace Robert…