Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crime. Show all posts
Friday, October 24, 2025

NBA gambling indictments

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 The NYT has the story of the latest sports -gambling scandal in which several NBA players and veterans were arrested for giving gamblers i...
Friday, October 17, 2025

The international black market in stolen smartphones

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Modern "pick pockets" are now  mounted on ebikes and swiping smartphones...  The NYT has the story: London Became a Global Hub for...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

The black market in stolen homing pigeons

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  Below are some excerpts from a long interesting story in the Washington Post, about how a boom in pigeon racing in China led to a rash of ...
Saturday, June 28, 2025

Internet advertising: affiliate marketing scams, evolving

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 Ben Edelman announces a return to his roots, detecting advertising fraud on the internet. (Remember when malware would flash unwanted page...
Friday, June 20, 2025

Jewish cemetery and Pinkas synagogue in Prague

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 During our visit to Prague in May we visited the Old Jewish Cemetery , crowded with the dead from the historic Jewish Ghetto.   We also ...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Hate crimes in the United States

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 The data graphic on hate crimes below is from the NYT editorial (and dates back to 2023). Antisemitism Is an Urgent Problem. Too Many Peopl...
Sunday, June 8, 2025

Ransomware evolving

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  MedCity News reports on the evolving cat and mouse game between ransomware criminals and health care organizations. The Changing Landscape...
Sunday, March 2, 2025

Train robbery in the 21st Century

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The LA Times has the story about how it's done these days: Inside the Mojave Desert train heists targeting Nike sneakers  By Alex Wiggle...
Monday, February 24, 2025

Mexico focuses on cross-border gun traffic after U.S. designates drug cartels as terrorists

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  Politico has the story (from the Associated Press): Mexico to reform constitution in wake of US terrorism designations The move by the Tru...
Sunday, December 29, 2024

"Rhino horns are a renewable resource." Would a legal market help save endangered rhinoceroses?

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 Right now it is illegal to buy or cell rhino horn, to protect endangered rhinoceroses from poachers who kill them.  But could a legal, tigh...
Wednesday, December 4, 2024

Adultery is no longer a crime in New York State.

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 Not only is jaywalking no longer a crime in New York City, the seldom-enforced criminal law against adultery in New York State has now bee...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Walk free in NYC, where jaywalking is no longer a crime

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In NYC jaywalking is no longer a crime, or at least it won't be at the end of January, if I read the story correctly.  But I'm guess...
Sunday, October 6, 2024

Technology and crime: cloning giant sheep

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  There are things you can go to prison for that wouldn't have been possible to do not long ago. The Washington Post is on the case: Ran...
Monday, August 26, 2024

Are Swedish gangs becoming the hitmen of Scandanavia?

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 We're accustomed to drug violence among gangs even in wealthy countries, but here's a story from The Times (of London) suggesting t...
Thursday, May 2, 2024

Gambling addiction

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  When gambling opportunities were rare and often illegal in the U.S., gambling addiction was a less visible problem than it is becoming tod...
Tuesday, March 5, 2024

Oregon is re-criminalizing drugs

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 The war on drugs is unforgiving, and neither criminalization nor decriminalization seems to be a winning strategy.  The NYT has the latest ...
Monday, February 26, 2024

Prison gangs, in Latin America and in the U.S.

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 It's one thing to be able to capture and confine prisoners. When gangs are involved, it's quite another thing to control the prison...
Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Marijuana black market persists in CA (despite the beginning of a legal market)

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 The LA Times has the story, about how legalization of marijuana in California so far failed to end the black market, complete with violence...
Tuesday, January 23, 2024

The war on drugs is a war

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The war on drugs doesn't begin at U.S. borders. Here's a dispatch from Ecuador, in the WSJ: Ecuador Is at War With Drug Gangs, Presi...
Saturday, January 20, 2024

AEA's lockbox: recording allegations while reserving the right to report them

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The American Economic Association has announced that they have initiated a Reporting Lockbox – Now Available to Members , meant to allow mem...