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For example, in Virginia, the crime is a felony if the crash causes death, injury, or damage to attended property in excess of a certain dollar amount; otherwise, it is a misdemeanor. [29] In California, the crime can be an infraction, a misdemeanor, or a felony depending on whether there is property damage or bodily injury.
Two drivers emerging from their cars to express anger at a road situation. Road rage is aggressive or angry behavior exhibited by people driving a vehicle. These behaviors include rude and verbal insults, yelling, physical threats or dangerous driving methods targeted at other drivers, pedestrians or cyclists in an effort to intimidate or release frustration.
In their report "Gang Wars," Kevin Pranis and Judith Greene examine the literature and conclude that the current preoccupation, caused by moral panics with gangs is a distraction from very real problems of crime and violence that negatively impacts too many communities. Pranis also states that "Gangs do not drive crime rates, and aggressive ...
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Sep. 29—The NRA opposed a law that is now taking thousands of guns off the streets and arresting hundreds of criminals who are going to jail and not coming out for a long time. The NRA opposed it.
Great moments in unintended consequences—when something that sounds like a great idea goes horribly wrong. Watch the whole series.. Part One: Glock Management
The violence caused the governor to declare Martial Law, [24] and bring in six companies of the Idaho National Guard to "suppress insurrection and violence." Federal troops also arrived, and they confined six hundred miners in bullpens without any hearings or formal charges. Some were later "sent up" for violating injunctions, others for ...
A violent crime, violent felony, crime of violence or crime of a violent nature is a crime in which an offender or perpetrator uses or threatens to use harmful force upon a victim. This entails both crimes in which the violent act is the objective, such as murder , assault , rape and assassination , as well as crimes in which violence is used ...