Samantha Drake
- Feb 28, 2016
FBI to Begin Tracking Animal Abuse Data in 2016
In 2016, the Federal Bureau of Investigation will begin collecting data on animal abuse across the country, which will help give activists and researchers a better understanding of how to prevent animal cruelty. "The agency will collect information on reports of animal abuse as well as arrests and convictions," notes Mary Lou Randour, senior adviser for animal cruelty programs and training at theAnimal Welfare Institute in Washington, D.C. “The FBI will be recording every inc
VINCENT SCHIRALDI
- Feb 28, 2016
How to Reduce Crime: Stop Charging Children as Adults
"FOR the second year in a row, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York has proposed raising the age of the state’s Family Court jurisdiction to 18 from 16. If that legislation fails again this year, it will leave New York and North Carolina as the only states where people age 16 and older can be tried as an adult and, if incarcerated, locked up in adult prisons and jails. (In New York, children as young as 13 must be tried in adult court for certain charges, like murder.) Not only a
