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Justice By Geography
Years after the 2000 Gang Violence and Juvenile Crime Prevention Act passed in California, Orange County-area prosecutors "top the list of district attorneys who most use the discretionary waiver to charge teens as young as 14 as adults." The original act was meant to "target hardcore gang members and juvenile offenders who commit heinous, violent crimes." Among the stories is the tale of Rene Garcia, who faces a life sentence for murder, even though he did not pull the trigger.
Tags: juvenile justice; juvenile offenders; juvenile crime; juveniles charged as adults; accessory
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Money Bay
In the college football BCS system, 22 of the 32 bowls benefit from tax-empt status despite receiving millions of dollars from corporate sponsors.
Tags: Bowl Championship Series; rose bowl; orange bowl; fiesta bowl; sugar bowl
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They Got the Sheriff
Orange County, Calif Sheriff Mike Carona was praised for values and ethics on a national level. However Moxley found that he had connections with a strip club owner "tied tot he Chicago Mafia," slept with women on duty and "promoted officers based on personal loyalty not competence."
Tags: police; sheriff; Mike Carona; mafia; strip club; Las Vegas; Orange County; Lebanon; anti-terrorism training exercises; police department
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The Last Ghost of War
"Over three decades after the Vietnam War, deadly dioxin has worked its way into the food chain and, some argue, the gene pool, with tragic results." This documentary details several plaintiffs in a class action suit, who are "seeking justice and compensation for medical care from U.S. chemical companies."
Tags: disabled children; Agent Orange; chemical weapons; dioxin; Saigon
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How the FBI Took Down A Deadly NJ Gang
"The story detailed for the first time the rise and fall of what was considered the state's oldest and most violent organized street gan, offereing a window into the a surging statewide crime porblem and how law enforcemnt was dealing with it."
Tags: The Double ii Bloods; East Orange; FBI; heroin; Crips; North Side Killer Gangstas; gang;
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Is Bigger Better?
When officials in Orlando decided to build a new convention center for the town (which will end up costing a total of $2.8 billion), they told residents that it would attract around 500,000 visitors during its first year. However, the center only attracted a mere 154,317 visitors and had a bad impact on Orlando's economy. Dan Tracy investigated and found that the numbers given by those who run the convention center are only estimates and educated guesses. He also found that it is becoming harder and harder for other cities to compete with Las Vegas, which is the number one convention destination.
Tags: The Orange County Convention Center; Las Vegas; tourism; Convention and Visitors Bureau
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Ex Cathedra: The Orange Dioscese Sex-Abuse Scandal
The Orange County Weekly investigates sexual abuse by catholic priests in the southern California region. This series that ran over a period of more than a year showed that the diocesan officials covered pedophilia by the priest and paid off some of the victims. After this spate of investigations, one Orange County dioscese fearing a public trial agreed to release personnel files on some of the priests accused of sexual misconduct as part of a $ 100 million settlement to the victims.
Tags: sexual abuse; Orange County dioscese; parish; Catholoc church; priests and sexual abuse; pedophilia; sexual abuse of children; child molestation; OC Weekly
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Property Taxes: Measuring Your Pain
The Star-Ledger used a statistical index to find that residents in East Orange, NJ were paying a high amount of taxes that is disproportionate to their incomes and home values. They also found that, because "New Jersey leads the nation in property taxes on a per capita basis" and because the tax rate continues to increase, a call to amend the state constitution has been prompted. For comparison purposes, the Star-Ledger developed a "Tax Trauma Index" and examined the differences between many different New Jersey towns.
Tags: property taxes; New Jersey
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Moving out of Reach
This investigative report follows the results of the 1986 Census Bureau survey conducted about housing conditions in Orange County. Using CAR, Campbell's analysis revealed that "nearly a quarter million residents of Orange County--one family in nine--spend at least half their income on housing," which significantly exceeds the federal governent-recommended limit. This investigation also looked at te increase in tax-exempt bonds for luxury apartmet, despite a shortage of low-cost rental properties in the county.
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Crimewise, OC ranks as peaceful area
Statistically, speaking, from a crime standpoint, Orange County is a tide pool in a turbulent ocean. None of the county's large cities ranks among the most crime-ridden communities in California. And crime rates elsewhere in the nation dwarf those in the county according to a Register analysis of the FBI's Uniform Crime Report.
Tags: crime rate; Stanton; Santa ana; Orange County; homicide; arson; Costa Mesa; FBI uniform crime report; statistics; Los Angeles; Inglewood; San Bernadino; Oakland; assault; gang shootings; break-ins