Crime Sift

Entries from January 2007

Violence, Abuse and Neglect in the California Youth Authority

January 26th, 2007 · No Comments

I recently did a post about the U.S. Prison System called Do American Prisoners Deserve Better Treatment Than Those Apprehended in the War on Terror? Here is another interesting video called System Failure: Violence, Abuse and Neglect in the California Youth Authority. The title says it all. There is something wrong in the […]

Tags: Criminal Justice · Prisoner Treatment · Video

Secret Code Allows Scam on ATM

January 25th, 2007 · 2 Comments

This story from CNN is fascinating but as usual the media only scratched the surface of the story. A criminal used a secret code and a prepaid bank card (to avoid detection) to trick the ATM machine into thinking that it is handing out $5 bills when it is actually handing out $20 bills. […]

Tags: Fraud · Video

Stickers Warn Auto Thieves of Potential Beating

January 24th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I thought that this story was interesting because it demonstrates how frustrated people have become with problems like auto theft. On January 6, 2007 a convicted car thief Stanley Ross was beaten with a bat by the driver of another vehicle after the two vehicles collided. According to the story from the Winnipeg […]

Tags: Auto Theft

Close Call on Traffic Stop

January 23rd, 2007 · No Comments

Via: VideoSift

Tags: Traffic Stops · Video

“Are You So Stupid That You Don’t Know I’m Drunk?”

January 22nd, 2007 · No Comments


Tags: Drunk Drivers · Video