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In late 2009 and early 2010, multiple sexual assaults by strangers were reported to the Ashland, Oregon, Police Department. It was rare to receive information about stranger rapes, let alone several w...
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Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) has been a widespread problem for women and girls in Rwanda, both during the 1994 genocide and in the current peacetime. While SGBV incidents dropped in number ...
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Most people know the old saying “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” If there’s any truth to that statement, then surely there are...
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Bureau of Justice Assistance-funded Trainings Human Trafficking Basic Awareness Training for Law Enforcement Agencies now can access the online version of the basic Introduction to Human Traffick...
Human & Civil Rights
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When Drequan Dugar was arrested on charges of human trafficking on February 18, 2014, by the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina, the case illustrated how the response to human tra...
Human & Civil Rights
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This year, I will celebrate a decade of sobriety and the 10th anniversary of my release from Cook County Jail. The interesting thing is I never really left. Inspired by my experience with the sheri...
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Stalking is a pervasive, dangerous, and—far too often—lethal crime. It is a crime that occurs at dramatically high rates; in a one-year period, 6.6 million individuals were stalked in the United S...
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Active shooter incidents provide law enforcement with a number of crime-specific challenges. Among these significant challenges faced by law enforcement agencies responding to active shooter incidents...