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Many activities that were once considered crimes are no longer illegal in some countries, at least in part because of their status as victimless crimes. One example is the British sturdy beggar laws that applied the death penalty to unemployment. Two large categories of victimless crimes are sexual pleasure and recreational drug use (drug ...
Chicago saw a major rise in violent crime starting in the late 1960s. Murders in the city peaked in 1974, with 970 murders when the city's population was over three million, resulting in a murder rate of around 29 per 100,000, and again in 1992, with 943 murders when the city had fewer than three million people, resulting in a murder rate of 34 murders per 100,000 citizens.
Shootings in Chicago are up 68% compared to 2019, and murder has jumped by 56%. “Most of them will carry a gun because they have to,” said Lamar Johnson. The Debate in Chicago Over Illegal ...
(The Center Square) – Two Chicago aldermen have proposed eliminating sanctuary-city protections for foreign nationals convicted of or arrested for certain crimes. Aldermen Raymond Lopez and ...
The use of the term "public-order crime" grew out of the research to test the hypothesis underlying the term "victimless crime". So-called victimless crimes or crimes without victims were tested to determine whether a case could be argued that the behaviour produced harmful consequences for innocent people (p19) recognising that there was ...
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said individuals charged with violent crimes should be denied bail because they are guilty, drawing criticism from The post Chicago mayor says individuals charged with ...
Victimless crimes draw manpower and funds away from crimes that do hurt innocent parties, and enforcement of the laws is not consistent enough to be an effective deterrent. He also argues that actions to help people deal with problems caused by these illegal activities are effectively prevented by their criminalization—for example, no one ...
Chicago’s “failed approaches…have brought trauma to communities across the city.” More from National Review. Chicago Aldermen Grill Mayor Lightfoot over Refusal to Deploy National Guard Widely