Search Results for: crime

In the Name of the Law

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Mexico’s war on crime and drugs in Tijuana. A colonel cracks down on corruption.

Source: The New Yorker
Published: Oct 18, 2010
Length: 28 minutes (7,232 words)

The Afterlife of Stieg Larsson

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In Sweden the books and their author — who died in an untimely fashion that some conspiracy theorists persist in calling an assassination — have lately become the center of another sort of story, the kind of thing August Strindberg might have written, full of intense, opinionated Swedish characters entwined in a saga involving envy, resentment, a contested legacy and a mysterious manuscript. At least one skeptic has even questioned how Larsson, a middle-aged man with no history of writing crime fiction, and seemingly no flair for it, could have written the Millennium books in the first place.

Published: May 20, 2010
Length: 24 minutes (6,063 words)

Repeat Defender

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After taming crime in Los Angeles, Bill Bratton has won over the skeptics who doubted his success in New York. But all he really wants is his old job back.

Published: Nov 22, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,244 words)

Killer@Craigslist

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The “Craigslist Murder” was a crime made possible by the Internet, and the prime suspect was apprehended through online sleuthing. But the killing of Julissa Brisman allegedly by Boston University medical student Philip Markoff is still a very human mystery, with dark sexual overtones and surprising contradictions.

Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Oct 1, 2009
Length: 30 minutes (7,583 words)

Cattle rustling on the rise again in Texas

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An Old West crime becomes new again, partly in response to the recession. One disgusted Texas Ranger says rustlers ‘disgrace the cowboy name.’

Published: Aug 11, 2009
Length: 6 minutes (1,538 words)

North Korea’s Dollar Store

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Office 39, North Korea’s billion-dollar crime syndicate, pays for Kim Jong Il’s missiles and cognac. Why did the Bush White House choose not to shut it down?

Author: David Rose
Source: Vanity Fair
Published: Aug 5, 2009
Length: 19 minutes (4,853 words)

A Fearless Activist in a Land of Thugs

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Natalya Estemirova is gone now. Her executioners forced her into a car in front of her home in Chechnya and sped away with her on Wednesday morning. She managed to shout that she was being kidnapped, her last known words documenting the beginning of the crimes against her, just as she had documented crimes against uncountable others.

Published: Jul 17, 2009
Length: 4 minutes (1,168 words)

What’s Next For Michael Vick?

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The disgraced quarterback has already paid a greater price for his crime than most wayward athletes.

Published: Jul 13, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,398 words)

New York’s Indispensable Institution

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The NYPD’s crime-fighting sparked the city’s economic revival and is essential to its future.

Source: City Journal
Published: Jul 28, 2009
Length: 16 minutes (4,192 words)

Trying to Understand the Mahmudiyah Massacre

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In 2006, a group of American soldiers brutally raped a young Iraqi girl and murdered her and her family. Gelf talks to some of the soldiers convicted of the crimes.

Source: Gelf Magazine
Published: May 6, 2009
Length: 9 minutes (2,400 words)