Questions tagged [law-enforcement]
Any system by which some members of society act in an organized manner to promote adherence to the law by discovering and punishing persons who violate the rules and norms governing that society.
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Did an Indian Supreme Court judge release a terrorist with 70 criminal cases?
Stop Hindu Genocide (content warning: violent pictures and videos) is a web-site protesting violence against Hindus. A group in New York protested against former Chief Justices of India. They had ...
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Were a married couple in Missouri arrested in the 1990s for sodomy due to a private act of oral sex?
From an essay by Terre Thaemlitz first published online in 2002:
It was less than ten years ago that a married husband and wife from Missouri were arrested on charges of sodomy when a concerned ...
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Have over 500 Kanaks been "disappeared" by French troops in New Caledonia?
New Caledonia has been wracked by violent pro-independence protests and riots in recent months, in reaction to proposed voting reforms.
Three days ago, the UN issued a report. The report itself has an ...
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Did the German justice system convict a woman for insulting a person who gang raped a minor?
New York Post writes
A German woman was handed down a harsher sentence than a convicted rapist after she called him a “disgraceful rapist pig.”
Maja R, 20, was jailed for a weekend after she was ...
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Is the leaked Aiden Hale "manifesto" authentic?
The 2023 Nashville school shooting was carried out by a transgender man, Aiden Hale.
Conservative political commentator Steven Crowder tweeted some photos of handwritten notes in a notebook, ...
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Were over 3,000 persons arrested in Britain for social media posts in 2018?
In 2019, John Anderson interviewed Konstantin Kisin. The discussion is transcribed by me. I is the interviewer and K is for Konstantin.
K: In Russia last year 400 people were arrested for things that ...
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Were law enforcement officers (LEOs) standing around doing nothing during the Uvalde shooting? [closed]
I have seen numerous news sources claim that for over half an hour LEOs were on site of the shooting but doing nothing.
From NPR:
Department of Public Safety Director Steve McCraw told reporters that ...
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Did Kamala Harris ignore anti-pedophilia California Child Protection Act of 2012?
An Open Secret (anti-pedophilia, anti-Hollywood film) posted on Twitter the following claim which was retweeted 1k+ times:
Did you know?
California Child Protection Act of 2012
Requires adults working ...
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Does the Violence Interrupters program reduce shootings and homicides in Washington, D.C.?
Violence Interrupters is a program to reduce gang-related retaliations.
They have a presence in Washington D.C..
I found a local news article that claims:
Community members in the Benning Terrace ...
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Were Canadian politicians targeted by an Indian intelligence covert influence operation?
Global News reported that Canadian politicians were targets of Indian intelligence covert influence operation.
Indian intelligence agencies attempted to use money and disinformation to “covertly ...
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Did French police fine homeless persons for not being confined at home in March 2020?
As mentioned in Are all French citizens who go outside their home legally required to carry official papers with a reason why they are out (Covid-19 lockdown)?
, in France, people need to stay at home,...
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Were COVID-19 patients in Wuhan welded into their apartments to enforce the lockdown?
The Sun ran an article in Feburary 2020 covering viral social media videos purportedly showing citizens in Wuhan having their apartment doors welded shut during the COVID-19 lockdown. The wording of ...
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Did DOJ officials conclude no further action was warranted on the Whistleblower complaint?
The White House just accidentally sent all House Democrats its talking points regarding President Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian President and the related Intelligence Community whistleblower ...
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Is there a better-supported explanation than economic hegemony, why "70% of firms targeted for anti-bribery by the DOJ are overseas"?
This BBC article quotes GE's former lawyer as saying that:
Pierre Laporte, a former GE lawyer who now works as Pierucci's partner, notes that 70% of firms targeted for US anti-bribery action are ...
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Does normal paper currency contain enough narcotics residue to attract a drug-sniffing dog?
It seems pretty well established that paper currency (e.g. in the US) is commonly contaminated with trace amounts of cocaine or other illegal narcotics. (See Snopes for instance, though I'm happy to ...
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Did a non-US Hungarian citizen get extradited to the United States for not reporting an American customer of his bank?
I was reading about this case in the news - Former Executive of Loyal Bank Ltd Pleads Guilty to Conspiring to Defraud the United States by Failing to Comply with Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act
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Was—or is?—there an ICE checkpoint at the 23rd Street N/Q/R/W subway station in Manhattan? [closed]
All around social media this past Tuesday in New York City a viral message claiming there was an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) "checkpoint” at the 23rd Street N/Q/R/W subway station ...
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Did the city of Berlin set up safe zones for women for New Year’s Eve 2017/2018?
The BBC has reported that the city of Berlin was setting up “safe zones” for women for New Year’s Eve. It was very heavily reported on by RT, Sputnik and other media. New Year's Eve party in Berlin to ...
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Does Smoking Marijuana Turn Users Tongue Green?
With the recent legalization of marijuana in many states, I have noticed, more and more, an old claim - that smoking marijuana makes users tongues turn green.
Is this true and if not, where did this ...
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Did a refugee evade arrest by three female police officers in Sweden, as shown in this video?
@PeterSweden7 posted a video with the text:
SWEDISH POLICE FIASCO: 3 female cops beaten by 1 male refugee after trying to arrest for arson attacks. Police car SMASHED.
The video is apparently a ...
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Did the alleged victim of Julian Assange's Swedish sex crime say that police made it up?
In this interview with John Pilger, Julian Assange says
...here we have case where... the woman herself says the police made it up.
... But what is the rhetoric? The rhetoric is... never mentioned ...
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How many non-citizens were removed from the US from 2009–2015?
I'm trying to reconcile two different sets of data.
The House Judiciary committee reports:
year
Criminal Alien Removals
Non-Criminal Removals
Total
2015
139368
96045
235413
2014
177960
137983
315943
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Do Virgina and Connecticut have the death penalty for those who work on Sunday?
A Brazilian Seventh-Day Pastor called Samuel Ramos claims in this sermon that Virginia and Connecticut have had the death penalty for those who work on Sundays since 1610:
[5:30] Porém, existem 2 ...
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Do Japanese police roll drunks and criminals into giant futons?
From the BBC: How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime
"The response to violence is never violence, it's always to
de-escalate it. Only six shots were fired by Japanese police
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Is this protest sign referring to Europe?
Is the above picture, of a woman holding a sign with the text
You can get raped but not protest against rape
# World's largest democracy
referring to Europe?
Example tweets: 1 (containing a ...
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