Crime

Media are buzzing about a thwarted plot by a group of Georgia 3rd-graders to attack their teacher:

A group of third-graders plotted to attack their teacher, bringing a broken steak knife, handcuffs, duct tape and other items for the job and assigning children tasks including covering the windows and cleaning up afterward, police said Tuesday. The children, ages 8 and 9, were apparently mad at the teacher because she had scolded one of them for standing on a chair…A prosecutor said they are too young to be c

Recently, demonstrators planned a rally at the Justice Department to protest the government's handling of hate crimes.

A Washington Post review of the new feature release, American Gangster—expected to be a hit—raised an interesting issue:

…as a society, as a culture, as a civilization we're complicit in the promotion of deviance to heroism.

A recent commentary questions whether greater gun control would stem the tide of the high violent crime rate in U.S. urban centers:

Liberals and their political allies say the problem is the easy accessibility of guns and greater gun control is the solution. That has to be nonsense.

It appears Michael Vick may serve time and possibly see his football career end if he takes a plea deal in the federal dog-fighting case. People are in an uproar and, if he's guilty, he should have to pay a cost. But… ...where is the similar outrage over those who are guilty of domestic abuse, rape, assault or battery of another human being?