Criminal Justice

The attorney representing the family of a Detroit teenager who was shot and killed while apparently seeking help after a car accident says the girl was injured and may have wandered a Dearborn Heights neighborhood for as long as an hour before arriving on the porch of the man who shot her. “If he was in […]

(CBS) – As Florida authorities search for two convicted murderers set free due to forged paperwork, many are asking, how could something like this happen? As it turns out, so-called “releases in error” are not uncommon. In fact, former New York City Corrections Chief Martin Horn told CBS News’ Crimesider that it’s a problem that “bedevils”

“This is a form of sexual assault. Someone is violating you in a sexual way without your consent. And it doesn’t just happen once. It happens over and over and over…” And yet in most places, “revenge porn” is not against the law.

The family of Marlon Brown, the Fla. man killed after being run down by a police car, has filed a complaint accusing the medical examiner’s office of “negligence” and “material misrepresentation of the data” after it ruled the death was an accident

The family of a Florida man who was killed after being run over by a police cruiser in May wants charges filed against the officer behind the wheel.

On Sept. 25, 2012, Hawa Bah called 911 to ask for help getting her depressed son, Mohamed, to a hospital for medical care. But it wasn’t an ambulance that showed up, it was armed New York City police officers.

Twice before he shot and killed 12 people in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Sept. 16, Aaron Alexis was arrested for discharging a firearm – once in his Ft. Worth apartment, and once outside his grandmother’s home in Seattle. Neither time was he prosecuted for a crime. Now, the question is why

News that sheriffs in Iowa are issuing firearm carry permits to legally blind citizens strikes some as absurd, but others see it as a fair reading of the law.

We’ve gotten better at preventing inmate suicide, but experts tell CBS that Cleveland kidnapper Ariel Castro was a particularly hard case.

The thousands of heavily armed law enforcement officers and scores of military-style tactical vehicles amassed around Boston Friday might have looked chaotic to many watching the hunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev unfold on television. But the man who heads the LAPD’s counter terrorism and special operations bureau says the city-wide lockdown makes