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Violence
the crime scene
1/23/2019
If I Hate Violence So Much, Why Do I Love Writing About It? Writers of violent thrillers reflect on — and reaffirm — the ethics of what they do.
pittsburgh synagogue shooting
10/29/2018
Focus Moves to Florida in Explosive Device Investigation Several packages are believed to have passed through South Florida’s largest mail processing facility.
Violent Political Rhetoric Can Feed Political Violence As excitement mounts in the runup to a critical election, it’s important that we recognize that politics isn’t, or shouldn’t be, actual warfare.
Woman Says ‘Proud Boy’ Arrested for Beating Protesters Attacked Her Last Year An anonymous Muslim woman says Geoffrey Young viciously attacked her at a protest last year, and bragged about it online afterward.
Four Dead, Including the Suspect, in Maryland Warehouse Shooting A 26-year-old temp at a Rite Aid warehouse gunned down three others before killing herself.
Presidential Candidate Jair Bolsonaro, ‘Brazil’s Donald Trump,’ Is Stabbed The wound “was superficial and he is well,” Bolsonaro’s son said in a tweet.
Whiteness Doesn’t Cause Mass Shootings It’s a compelling-seeming and click-worthy argument, but it’s also a glib and pernicious one that progressives should steer clear of.
It’s Time to Redraw the Line Between Violent and Nonviolent Political Activism Instead of finger-pointing or empty expressions of civility, the best reaction to today’s shooting is a clear refusal to support or incite violence.
Psychologists: Stop Blaming Mass Shootings on Video Games There’s a bit of dissent within the American Psychological Association about the role of video games in contributing to violence.
Free Fire Is Another Ultraviolent Gun Movie, With One Crucial DifferenceThe movie avoids the anonymous spree killings that pop up in John Wick and Logan .
Here’s a New Effort to Study the Psychological Effects of Youth Violence It involves recruiting members of frequently victimized groups to conduct interviews about the psychological toll of violence.
Federal Judge Says Trump Incited Violence at Campaign Rally, Lawsuit Can Proceed A federal judge has ruled that what Trump says actually matters, and in the case of a campaign rally last year, plausibly incited violence.
a history of violence
3/23/2017
Movies Are More Violent Than Ever Before, and It’s Amazing If you have an appetite for high body counts, fight
choreography, and onscreen savagery, Hollywood might finally be meting out enough punishment.
How Violence Warps Childhood Friendships in Chicago Most kids simply gravitate toward peers who are similar to them. In violent parts of Chicago, children need to be a lot more deliberate.
A New Book Argues Concerns Over Violent Video Games Are a Moral Panic In their new book Moral Combat , two psychologists argue that video games are little understood and that fearmongering about them is rampant.
Walking Dead Producers Toned Down ViolenceThe people behind The Walking Dead have realized that their last display of gore struck out with fans.
More Evidence That Violence Is Contagious Like smoking or obesity, it travels along social networks.
Why There Probably Won’t Be Much Election Violence An expert on one of the more infamous recent examples of election violence sees few warning signs in the U.S.
There’s No Explanation for Lone-Wolf Attacks, and Our Brains Can’t Handle That It would be nice if there were some one-size-fits-all narrative that could explain Ahmad Khan Rahami and others like him, but there just isn’t.
Fear the Walking Dead ’s Showrunner Hates GoreWhich helps the production, believe it or not.
If You Want Less Police Violence, Hire More Female Cops Between culture, biology, and psychology, men are more aggressive. Especially when doing police work.
Do Warm Climates Really Make People More Violent? “… they are less strict about time, they have less use of birth control, they have children earlier and more often.”
Police: Man Arrested at Nevada Rally Said He Wanted to Kill Trump A man tried to steal a police officer’s gun at a Trump rally Saturday — then told cops that he’d come to kill the GOP nominee.
Rose McGowan Calls Out Sexist X-Men Billboard The actress accused 20th Century Fox executives of using violence against women to market a product.
5/24/2016
The Simple Pleasure of Clocking Someone in the Jaw Trump’s bullying is giving rise to a long-dormant impulse.
beta male
5/24/2016
The Simple Pleasure of Clocking Someone in the Jaw Trump’s bullying is giving rise to a long-dormant impulse.
Can Republicans Recover From Convention Chaos? Democrats Did in 1968 After polling at just 28 percent around Labor Day, Hubert Humphrey came back and almost beat Richard Nixon.
Tucson Trump Rally Marred by Violence Another protester got sucker-punched, and Trump’s campaign manager was filmed getting involved in a separate altercation as well.
trump vs. bernie
3/13/2016
Donald Trump Blames, Threatens Bernie Sanders Over Rally Violence “If conservative Republicans ever went into his rally, you would see things happen that would be unbelievable.”
In Pakistan, Journalists and Comics Artists Team Up to Fight Terrorism “This is a powerful vehicle for conveying ideas which otherwise would get lost in longer essays and impersonal journalistic reporting.”
How to Predict Which Soldier Will Commit Violent Acts “While you can’t predict these things with perfect accuracy, it’s pretty amazing how you can do a heck of a lot better than random.”
10 Trans Women Have Been Murdered in the U.S. This Year Including India Clarke, who was found beaten to death in Tampa earlier this week.
An Author Explains How Mass Killings Happen An interview with with Abram de Swaan, author of The Killing Compartments .
Why You Shouldn’t Fear the Rise in Mass Shootings Violence in the U.S. is still on a long downward trajectory.
Watching Ferguson: Violence Erupts in the Stream Following Ferguson on social media, where images of rage interrupt the usual sports chat and movie-casting rumors.
law enforcement
8/14/2014
How Militarizing Police Can Increase Violence Ferguson is part of a dangerous nationwide experiment.
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