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- Privacy Fears Grow as Cities Increase Surveillance
Oakland spent millions of dollars on traffic cameras, license plate readers and a network of sound sensors to pick up gunshots.
Still, the city has one of the highest violent crime rates in the country.
- Ref: Oakland, CA demographics: The racial makeup of Oakland was 134,925 (34.5%) White (non-Hispanic White 25.9%), 109,471 (28.0%) African American, 3,040 (0.8%) Native American, 65,811 (16.8%) Asian (8.7% Chinese, 2.2% Vietnamese, 1.6% Filipino, 0.7% Cambodian, 0.7% Laotian, 0.6% Korean, 0.5% Japanese, 0.5% Indian), 2,222 (0.6%) Pacific Islander (0.3% Tongan), 53,378 (13.7%) from other races, and 21,877 (5.6%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 99,068 persons (25.4%). 18.1% of the population were of Mexican descent, 1.9% Salvadoran, 1.3% Guatemalan, and 0.7% Puerto Rican.
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Dallas police are looking for the person who shot and killed a pregnant woman inside of her Oak Cliff home on Saturday night. Police said the victim is 28-year-old Stephanie Terlisner who was six-months pregnant. She was transported to Baylor Hospital in Dallas where she and her unborn child died. Dallas police said the location of the shooting in the 6600 block Cool Morn Drive, near Bonnie View Road, was a known "drug smoke house" and was occupied by several people who witnessed the shooting. Police said the witnesses claim a black male entered the house and shot Terlinser once in the chest. - (Black-on-white)
PASADENA, Md. —A Pasadena man was shot and killed outside his friend’s house. Now one year later his family says they are still struggling to find justice for their son. One person has been charged in the death of 
Two teen-agers were arrested Sunday evening and charged in connection with the shooting of an off-duty Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer during an apparent home invasion earlier in the day. Detectives arrested Kevin Watson McClary, 19, and 
A divided Pennsylvania appeals court has vacated the 30- to 66-year prison term of a Kensington man who admitted raping an 
A year after promising that a 21st person would be charged in the now-infamous Cleveland gang rape case, the Liberty County District Attorney’s Office has officially closed the case with the plea bargain of Cordney Demond Bennett, 21. In exchange for his plea of Indecency With a Child by Exposure, Bennett will serve seven years in state prison. After he is released, he will be required to register as a sex offender for 10 years. The DA’s office was able to link Bennett to the rape of the 11-year-old victim through DNA samples. The Cleveland gang rape case stems from a series of sexual assaults allegedly committed by 21 males — 15 adults and six juveniles — against the
A Corona man has been charged with sexually assaulting three women during a 2008 robbery at a Riverside-area massage parlor, police announced Thursday, Oct. 10. That crime was believed to be part of a series of violent robberies and rapes committed by one man. But DNA evidence shows the serial rapist who attacked at least five other Southern California massage businesses is a different man who is still on the loose. Maurice Jennings, 34, was arrested two days after police held a news conference last month pleading for the public’s help. Jennings was identified thanks to anonymous tips.
A 52-year-old Jacksonville Beach man was convicted Friday of capital sexual battery on a minor after four men were arrested in a 2012 investigation into a mother accused of selling sex with 
Police in Columbus, Ga., arrested 39-year-old Dalina Nicholas, of Jacksonville Beach, Fla., on March 1 on a warrant accusing her of child neglect. She was locked in the Muscogee County Jail. Quinn Brooks, 56, and John Hagans, 47, are behind bars in Jacksonville Beach in connection with the case, accused of paying for sexual favors with the child. A third man, 51-year-old Norman Thompson, is being sought by police.
Cape Town - The mother of rape and murder accused Johannes Kana was shocked to hear his confession in the Swellendam Circuit Court to raping Bredasdorp teenager 
An Apopka Circle K clerk thwarted a rape outside the convenience store, police said Tuesday. A customer entered the store about 12:03 a.m. Saturday to report hearing arguing behind a dumpster. The clerk went outside and heard a woman yelling, "Stop, stop, get off of me" and saw a man on top of her. The man told the clerk that everything was OK and he could leave, the report states. Instead, he went back into the store and dialed 911. Officers who arrived five minutes later found the woman screaming for help in woods across the street from the store at 870 E. Semoran Blvd. and Craig Kerry, 46, standing over her, according to the report. An officer chased Kerry, a felon who served prison time for rape, deeper into the woods. They arrested him on charges of kidnapping with intent to commit a felony, sexual battery, felony battery and resisting arrest.
PORTLAND, Ore. – A grand jury has secretly re-indicted a 23-year-old man accused of raping a woman in June and then shooting at her as she tried to escape in an SUV in Northeast Portland. Dechavien Jabar Parks is now charged with six counts of attempted aggravated murder, 14 counts of attempted murder, two counts of fourth-degree assault, two counts of strangulation, nine counts of first-degree burglary and one count each of first-degree rape, first-degree unlawful sexual penetration, first-degree sexual abuse, first-degree attempted sodomy, menacing, attempted first-degree assault and unlawful use of a weapon. As the SUV neared Parks, the witness told police that he fired one round while chanting “Crip, Crip, Crip.” 
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announces dishwasher 
Jury selection was expected to continue Friday for a Royal Saudi Air Force sergeant standing trial on charges he raped a 
TULSA, Okla. — The shooter opened fire shortly after a champagne toast at Oklahoma's Green Country Event Center. 'We go and line up for the food, and then we heard the gunshots right away,' witness Xiathao Moua says. Cops charged 
One of the five people accused of a home invasion that led to the death of a woman in December of 2012 has been sentenced. Lee Griffin (
Cobb County police have arrested and charged a suspect in the fatal shooting of a college student following a road rage incident in Kennesaw early Friday morning. Police identified the suspect as Sparkles Lindsey, 22, of Austell. Cobb jail records, however, identify her as Lindsey Sparkles Lashayla. She has been charged with murder and aggravated assault and is being held in the Cobb jail. Police say Lashayla fatally shot 
Philadelphia Police say the suspect who violently attacked a 
Metro-East Police are looking for a man who beat up a gas station worker for cash and the crime was caught on tape. Police in Cahokia said the suspect punched the station clerk multiple times in the head. The victim, 
ATLANTA - A sophisticated home surveillance system caught an armed thief in the act of stealing a Mercedes in Midtown Atlanta. 
KIRKLAND, Wash. — Kirkland police are asking for help in identifying a man wanted in connection with the rape of an 
JACKSON, MS - The Jackson Police department is investigating a forcible rape. The rape was reported on August 31, 2013, according to JPD spokeswoman Officer Colendula Green. Based on the suspect's information given by the complainant, a warrant was issued for the arrest of 28-year-old Elijah Crosby. According to Green, detectives interviewed the complainant and based on the information they obtained, it was determined that Crosby was the suspect responsible for the forcible rape.
The man who allegedly beat to death the 'secret' son of Minnesota Vikings' star 
Lake Superior Court jurors convicted a Gary man of felony murder and other charges in the beating death of a Griffith woman who befriended a stranger by giving him a ride home. Robert Lewis III, 40, was convicted of murder, murder in perpetration of criminal deviate conduct, criminal deviate conduct and resisting law enforcement in the beating and strangulation death of 
SEATTLE — A man who killed a Zillow employee while shooting across a Central District street has been sentenced to spend decades in prison for second-degree murder. Zillow software development engineer, 43-year-old
A jury found a Knoxville man, accused of viciously beating a tow truck driver, with attempted voluntary manslaughter and aggravated assault on Tuesday. Tycorrian Taylor, 23, was found not guilty of attempted first degree for the alleged attack on
PHILADELPHIA — Police are searching for a suspect who robbed a man at gunpoint while the victim was making a withdraw at an ATM in Northeast Philadelphia. Surveillance video from the ATM shows the 65-year-old victim making a cash withdraw. As the victim waited at the machine for the transaction to complete, the suspect can be seen creeping up from behind. The suspect then approached the victim from behind, placed a handgun to the victim’s chest and demanded money. The victim resisted and a scuffle ensued between the two, during which the suspect struck the victim in his head with the gun. The victim then fell to the ground. The suspect then ran away and drove off in a silver Ford Taurus. The suspect is described as a black male, about 6’0” and 30-years-old. 
Deshawn Chappell is charged with killing 
Clearwater, Florida -- A teenager convicted of killing a St. Petersburg police officer will not receive a new sentence. Judge Thane Covert ruled Friday morning that 18-year-old Nicholas Lindsey will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole for the shooting death of Officer
Bobby Ferguson will serve 21 years in prison for his role in a long-running pay-to-play scheme involving friend and former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. U.S. District Judge Nancy Edmunds handed down the sentence just after 11:30 a.m., but not before making a series of comments while Ferguson sat holding a Bible at the defense table. She called him the catalyst of an unprecedented and historic extortion scheme. At different points, her speech drew a snicker from Ferguson and, later, a head shake. If he serves his full sentence, Ferguson will be 65 years old when he leaves prison. 
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. -- The Cumberland County Sheriff's office has arrested a former Fayetteville middle school principal. David Ellis Edwards, 49, is charged with two counts of second-degree forcible sex offense, two counts of sexual acts with a student, and five counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor. Detectives say there are at least three alleged victims. The sex acts allegedly took place at Ramsey Street Alternative and Douglas Byrd Middle Schools. Deputies said the victims told them that, between 2009 to 2011, they were touched inappropriately or were forced to participate in sexual acts with Edwards. 
A 20-year-old sex offender was caught masturbating in a women's restroom at Children's Hospital in New Orleans after an employee saw him slide under a stall as she was pulling down her pants. Joshua Rockwood was arrested and booked on charges of voyeurism and indecent behavior with juveniles. He faces the indecent behavior with juveniles charge because three young children used the restroom with their mother when he was reportedly hiding in one of the stalls. The woman told police the man was "lying on the bathroom floor with his pants pulled down and masturbating his genital area in an upward and downward motion," records say.
A Crawford County school employee faces a dozen charges, including child molestation. That's according to a news release from the Crawford sheriff's office. They say a sheriff's investigator met Wednesday with school officials about a complaint. That led to the arrest of 28-year-old Carlteze James Saffold. Crawford County Superintendent John Douglas says Saffold is a para-professional at Crawford County Middle School. He also said the incidents that led to the charges did not occur on school property. Saffold is accused of four counts of sexual exploitation of children, four counts of enticing a child for indecent purposes, and four counts of molestation.
COLUMBUS, Miss. -- Lowndes County authorities have charged a Columbus man with failure to register as a sex offender. Sheriff's investigators arrested Davirson Khiry Frierson, 23, on Wednesday. Authorities say they were notified by another law enforcement agency that Frierson had move to the Columbus area.
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The suspect is described by police as a black male in his 20s, almost 6-foot and with long dreadlocks. He was seen on surveillance video briefly walking into a building with the victim’s bag after the attack and apparently changed his clothing to alter his appearance, police said.
Vero Beach, Florida - La Crystal King-Woolfork, a 28-year-old Florida woman, has been jailed after she allegedly stabbed her boyfriend in the eye with a knife after he turned down her request for a threesome. According to the Indian River Sheriff's Office, a deputy was dispatched to Indian River Medical Center after a man with a stab wound to the eye arrived to the ER for treatment. The arriving deputy interviewed the victim, who stated that his girlfriend stabbed him in the eye after he refused to have sex with her. He went on to say that he was at home sleeping at around 4 a.m. that morning when his girlfriend, King-Woolfork, arrived home drunk and horny for sex. When he told King-Woolfork that he wasn't interested in having sex that night, she became angry and stabbed him in the eye with a knife.
After engaging in a threesome with a third male, a Florida couple dealing with “trust issues” got into a confrontation that ended early yesterday with the arrest of one of the men, Florida cops report. Adam Cole, 39, and Johnny Anderson, 23, are domestic partners who “reside together as a family” in a Bradenton home. Cole (left) and Anderson are pictured in the adjacent mug shots.
A Lindenwood University athlete was charged with risking infecting another with the HIV virus after meeting the victim on a social media outlet. St. Charles authorities say Michael L. Johnson, 22, was charged with recklessly risking infection of another when infected with HIV. In May, 2013, the victim contacted the St. Charles Police Department after he believed he had been infected with HIV by Johnson who he met through social media. Johnson, a member of the Lindenwood University wrestling team, was told he was positive for the HIV virus in January 2013 and knew of the infection before engaging in sexual activity with the victim but did not disclose it to him.
The children of Habteab Berhe Temanu on Tuesday explained in a Denver courtroom the stark choice they faced when they recruited a man to act as their father in order to come to the United States. If they stayed in Nairobi, Kenya, where they were living illegally after fleeing Ethiopia, they could be deported to Eritrea, their father's original home, and pressed into military service and killed. They said they didn't know anything about the past of the man they recruited,
A 20-year-old Saginaw man will spend the rest of his life in prison after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder for the fatal beating of 
SACRAMENTO, CA - An 89-year-old man was beaten on the floor of his living room Monday during a violent home invasion robbery. It began when the doorbell rang at Denis Naylor's home in the 3500 block of Ridgewood Way in northeast Sacramento. "I can't remember his name, who he asked for. I said, 'no, you're at the wrong house,'" Naylor said. "Ten minutes later, I heard a bang. A terrible bang. I thought it was thunder." Naylor had just heard the sound of his rear sliding glass door being shot out by a .45-caliber pistol. Moments late,r the gunman was on him. "He says, 'I want your money, all the money. Now!' I said, 'Well, it's all in the bank, what I have. And he kept on kicking me and trying to make me give in kind of thing, you know. Which I didn't," Naylor said. As one individual held Naylor at gunpoint, the other ransacked his house. Naylor worried about his wife of 65 years, who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. "He was in the bedrooms emptying all the drawers, tipping them all out and seeing what I had," said Naylor, who by then was dripping blood and worried that his arm might be broken. It turned out only his nose was broken, the result of a kick from his assailant. "There were two suspects, both were black male adults in their mid-20s. They stood an average of 5-8, with medium build and they were wearing dark clothing," 
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police are seeking help from the public in finding Mustafa Guyton who they say assaulted a blind man on a northwestern Philadelphia street earlier this month. Officials say a surveillance camera on a Germantown street corner captured video of the Oct. 2 aggravated assault on the 33-year-old man. Police say the man was walking east on a street just after noon when another man approached and struck him, knocking him to the ground. Detectives said the suspect then proceeded "to kick and stomp" the victim, injuring his face and head "as he lay helpless on the ground." The suspect, who is estimated to be 20 years old, then fled south. Police are asking residents to view the video and call detectives if the suspect is spotted.
Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was sentenced Thursday to 28 years in prison for corruption, after a series of scandals destroyed his political career and helped steer a crisis-laden city even deeper into trouble. Kilpatrick, who served as mayor from 2002 until fall 2008, fattened his bank account by tens of thousands of dollars, traveled the country in private planes and even strong-armed his campaign fundraiser for stacks of cash hidden in her bra, according to evidence at trial. "I'm ready to go so the city can move on," Kilpatrick told the judge. "The people here are suffering, they're hurting. A great deal of that hurt I accept responsibility for." In March, Kilpatrick, 43, was convicted of racketeering conspiracy, fraud, extortion and tax crimes. The government called it the "Kilpatrick enterprise," a years-long scheme to shake down contractors and reward allies. He was doomed by his own text messages, which revealed efforts to fix deals for a pal, Bobby Ferguson, an excavator who got millions of dollars in city work through the water department. 
The superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy set aside the recommendation of a military judge Thursday and ordered two former Navy football players to face court-martial in the alleged sexual assault of a female midshipman, attorneys for the accused men said. Joshua Tate, 21, of Nashville will be tried on a charge of aggravated sexual assault, and Eric Graham, 21, of Eight Mile, Ala., will be tried on a charge of abusive sexual contact. Both are also charged with making false statements.
NORTH CHARLESTON, SC - A man wanted by the state of New Jersey for charges of aggravated sexual assault, endangering and child abuse was captured in North Charleston Thursday morning after US Marshals received information on his location, officials say. Drew Mckelvey, 40, of Ladson, was arrested without incident by US Marshals in the 5900 block of Rivers Avenue around 8:30 a.m. A warrant for a full extradition from Hudson County SHeriff's Office was confirmed, and Mckelvey was transported to the Charleston County Detention Center. North Charleston police say Mckelvey also had an active warrant for criminal sexual conduct.
A Newport News man wanted by police for sexually abusing an 
BROCKTON — Every night for a year, Terry Jackson would pull a sheet over his victim’s head and rape her. Now, 299 charges of rape and sexual assault later, Jackson is going to prison. The Brockton man pleaded guilty to all 299 charges Monday after his attorney struck a plea deal with the state. Terry Jackson, 56, of 36 Montello St. Extension, Apt. 1, Brockton, was sentenced Monday by Judge Frank M. Gaziano to 40 to 50 years in state prison. Authorities said he filmed every attack. The victim was between 11 and 14 at the time of the attacks 
HICKORY, NC - A registered sex offender in Hickory was convicted Wednesday after failing to notify authorities of an address change. James Edward Williams, 53, was convicted of felony failure to report new address as a convicted sex offender and habitual felon status in Catawba County Criminal Superior Court. Williams was sentenced to no less than 100 months and no more than 132 months in the North Carolina Division of Adult Correction. 
ALBANY, GA. -- A former Dougherty County ‘Teacher of the Year’ candidate was indicted by a grand jury Wednesday on some serious charges. Phillip Burns is accused of enticing a child under the age of 16 to watch and perform sex acts, one of which includes sodomy. The incidents that involved two different victims allegedly occurred between May and October of 2012. Phillip Marquis Burns is accused of masturbating and having oral sex with a 
A motel clerk who was shot during an apparent robbery has died from her injuries. 
The man who drove a getaway car after the 2009 shooting death of a Chicago police officer was found guilty Wednesday. Kevin Walker was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder following a double jury trial. Walker and co-defendant Christopher Harris, accused of gunning down 
The distressed father of a wily 9-year-old boy who snuck onto a flight from Minneapolis to Las Vegas pleaded for help with his son at an emotional news conference today in which he wore a black hoodie and baseball cap in order to remain anonymous. "He wasn't listening, doing what he wants to do," the father said of his son. "It's so much. We ask for help." The boy's father sobbed through the news conference. His face could not be seen, but his sniffles were audible and his shoulders were shaking. 
New Orleans police have arrested a man they say raped a woman at gunpoint after posing as a taxi driver and picking her up in the French Quarter earlier this year. Curtis Hawthorne, 22, was jailed eight months after a 21-year-old woman told police she was raped and robbed after hailing a cab in the 300 block of Royal Street on Feb. 9 around 2:30 a.m. as she tried to get back to her hotel. Hawthorne pulled over, pretended to be a cab driver and said he would take the woman to her hotel. The woman told police that once she was in the car, she was driven to an undisclosed location where her attacker brandished a gun and demanded she take off her clothes. Then she was raped, the arrest report says.
PITTSBURGH — A woman told police that an East Liberty man with whom she drank beer and got high raped her twice and tried to strangle her. Police on Tuesday arrested Edward Covington, 56, on charges of attempted homicide, aggravated assault, rape, reckless endangerment and unlawful restraint.
PORTLAND, OR - The great-grandson of a woman found dead in her Cedar Mill home Saturday is in police custody accused of killing the 71-year-old woman. Deputies received a call to check on the welfare of 
Anthony Darnell Wade, the 28-year-old drifter who tried to plead insanity for raping, torturing and killing beloved Anaheim widow 
CHARLESTON, SC - Charleston County sheriff's deputies booked a 19-year-old on murder charges Monday night, about two hours after a missing man's body was found near a power substation in Mt. Pleasant, family friends say. Family members have been notified that 25-year-old 
CHARLESTON, SC - Charleston County deputies say two suspects have been arrested in connection with the murder of a Beaufort man whose body was found near a power substation in Mt. Pleasant Monday night. Jquan Scott, 19, and Isaac Williams, 20, have been arrested for the kidnapping and murder of 25-year-old 
DETROIT - Seven men are arrested in connection with what police say is a two-week killing spree in Detroit. Police believe the spree started with the murder of two teenage boys from Westland. The bodies of 18-year-old 
Police today said the stabbing death of a white Army soldier allegedly at the hands of a group of African American comrades was not a hate crime - despite witnesses claiming they called him a 'cracker' during the confrontation. 