Crime

Ask the Pilot How we're blowing airline security

The TSA wastes a lot of time and money on an inefficient fight against the wrong enemy
By Patrick Smith Aug 28, 2009

  • Keeping track of sex offenders

    What to do when California parole officers have way too many cases and not enough resources?
    By Sady Doyle September 28, 2009

  • Reminder: Roman Polanski raped a child

    Finally arrested 32 years after he fled sentencing for unlawful sex with a minor, the director is ... a big hero?
    By Kate Harding September 28, 2009

  • Phillip Garrido, wolf at the door

    As disturbing details emerge about Jaycee Dugard's alleged captor, one question remains: Why did people trust him?
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams September 1, 2009

  • 12,000 rape kits, untested

    The LAPD continues to ignore evidence that could help prosecute sexual assaults.
    By Abigail Kramer April 1, 2009

  • Crime, punishment ... and MTV

    As blockbuster rapper T.I. heads for prison, his reality series prompts the nagging question: Can you really scare kids straight?
    By Baz Dreisinger March 31, 2009

  • Oakland mourns

    A long blue line of police officers, backed by a grieving city, gather to say goodbye to four cops who died doing their jobs.
    By Gary Kamiya March 28, 2009

  • My father was murdered by my former next-door neighbor -- and I'm supposed to just get over it?

    I'm having a rough time; I'd like some justice and some peace.
    By Cary Tennis October 2, 2008

  • Why I love the city that brutalized me

    Before Katrina, all I knew about New Orleans was Bourbon Street clichés. Then I got mugged there and fell for a local boy and the glorious city itself.
    By Sarah Hepola August 29, 2008

  • A view of a killing

    The reaction to the fatal attack on American tourists in Beijing is very different from the U.S. response to the 1996 Atlanta bombing.
    By King Kaufman August 9, 2008

  • My interview with murderer Hans Reiser

    Five days before the computer genius who killed his wife led police to her body, he was remorseless and angry in defense of his innocence.
    By Stephen Elliott July 9, 2008

  • Criminals of the world, unite and take over

    In "McMafia," author Misha Glenny takes us on a startling tour of the new international underworld, documenting the hidden costs of an unregulated global free market.
    By Laura Miller April 16, 2008

  • Huckabee and criminals: It's worse than just Wayne DuMond

    The former governor's feckless, faith-based clemency policies in Arkansas continued for years after the convicted rapist was released.
    By Joe Conason December 14, 2007

  • Sheriff Rudy, crime fighter?

    The true story of policing in New York under Mayor Giuliani is less flattering than he would have us believe.
    By Joe Conason November 16, 2007

  • Was a nanny's murderer aided by Craigslist?

    How to safely answer online classified ads.
    By Farhad Manjoo October 29, 2007

  • My laptop was stolen -- I feel like my life is gone!

    Why can't I get over this? It's not like my family was murdered, or I'm a refugee -- it was just a laptop!
    By Cary Tennis October 18, 2007

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    O.J. 3: Sorry, media hordes. This one won't do boffo numbers. Plus: NHL follows up a big success -- four years later.
    By King Kaufman September 19, 2007

  • Police: Woman raped, witnesses do nothing

    A surveillance camera caught onlookers who failed to call the police.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory August 24, 2007

  • Deadly lockdown in New Orleans

    Two years after Hurricane Katrina, the city's prisons are overflowing and inmates have mysteriously died behind bars. Critics denounce a justice system in tatters.
    By Robin Templeton August 23, 2007

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    With the announcement of a guilty plea on dogfighting charges, Michael Vick's once-thrilling football career ends in a cloud of stupid cruelty.
    August 21, 2007

  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    O.J. Simpson's new interview: Yeah, it's weird. Plus: New baseball stat! Uselessness all but guaranteed.
    August 3, 2007
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