Holly Jones

The neighbourhood that Holly Jones lived in, was guarded with many police men after Holly's death and after there were more attempts of abduction. The students at the school were worried, many police surrounded and protected the school and neighbourhood. Holly Jones's parents were crushed. They kept telling themselves that she is in a better place. People in the community and Holly's parents made murals at Sorauren Park on the corner of Sorauren and Wabash Avenues, in the Roncesvalles Village Area of Toronto. Another mural was put on olaf at the Perth Ave Parkette, in Toronto. The community came out and supported Holly's parents. The whole community felt for Holly's parents and everyone is in loving memory of Holly Jones.
News Report- Grim Sleeper
In South Los Angeles, California, since 1980 a 14 year boy was suspected of murder. Black women were turning up dead in alleyways in South Los Angeles, California.  The case stopped until May 2007, the murder of Janecia Peters, 25, was linked by DNA analysis to 11 unsolved murders that were linked to the other murders. The attacker was called the Grim Sleeper by the local press, because he  took a 14 year old break from his crimes, from 1988 to 2002. In August 2008, the LA Weekly had an extensive interview with a lady that survived the attacker. She provided several important details, describing him as a “thin, neat, polite and well-groomed African-American guy.”
The killer documented his attack with a Polaroid camera. The female victim blacked out, but was startled awake by the bright flash of the camera. On July 7, 2010, there was a report that an arrest had been made in the Grim Sleeper case. The suspect is Lonnie David Franklin Jr., who is 57 years old. At first, the police had not been able to obtain a DNA match between evidence found at the crime scenes and people in California’s DNA profile database. Officials located similar DNA belonging to Lonnie Franklin’s son, Christopher, who was convicted of a felony weapons charge. Ultimately, the police used a piece of discarded pizza with Lonnie Franklin’s DNA to make the link.
 A federal detective, in order to obtain the evidence, pretended to be a waiter at a restaurant where the suspect ate. The detective collected all the dishes, silverware, glasses, and pizza crusts to obtain DNA. Saliva found on the victim’s breasts was used to obtain a DNA match linking Lonnie Franklin to the murders. With the DNA evidence, the police discovered a large collection of integral evidence against Franklin when searching his home. On December 16, 2010, the Los Angeles Police Department released 180 photos of women found in Franklin’s home. Police released the images after unsuccessful attempts to identify the people, who are possibly additional victims.
Investigators  found over 1,000 photos and several hundred hours of video in Franklin’s home. The images show mainly African American women of a wide age range, from teenagers to middle-aged and older. The pictures were often of the women nude. Police believe Franklin took many of the pictures, which show both conscious and unconscious individuals. The pictures date back up to 30 years. They can not indicate the entire murder count. The photographs suggest that Franklin may have killed hundreds of unidentified women. Currently, Lonnie David Franklin Jr. is charged with 10 homicides and 1 attempted murder. He is being held without bail and could face the death penalty if convicted.
The news story about Franklin- I think he deserves exactly what he is getting. 30 years of killing women, that deserves a death penalty. Depending on how long you've been doing the crime, what crime your doing, that should depend on how severe the consequence should be.

Crime increasing

Crime is always happening everywhere and increasing. The age group for crime is around 15-24, but can be older. In today's society people, mostly teens, are really bored and becoming really dependant on others and not caring about their education. Drugs and violence is becoming a big issue in today's society. Today's crime rate is great and I think that crime is increasing particularly because of how much the prices are going up.  Crime is Increasing, because being under the influence and taking drugs will make people do stupid things and people are wanting power all around the world. People are loosing there money, loosing there jobs and it makes it really hard.  People are needing to work extra hard to support there families. It's situations like these that crime will increase- where crimes increases. In the 1900's one of the law's were if you killed anyone you'd be hanged. Where as today's society there is a lot more opportunities to be represented by a lawyer and have your case pleaded innocent. There are many laws and it keeps people from doing what they want. If there weren't laws, there would be crime everywhere! People who are in poor countries are more likely to have a lot of crime, and seeing how there are many poor places in this world, there is a lot of crime happening around the world. There is a lot of crime that happens that is not reported to the police, therefore the crime number is becoming pretty big, and is increasing.  The biggest crime rate, here right now, is theft and assault. You don't really have to worry about a drive by shooting. However there are still stabbings, shootings, and sexual assault. There are many crimes that are happening that we don't hear about, but it still happens and is still increasing.
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Crime Happens

Boredom is one of the big reasons I believe crime happens. There are many other reasons why crime happens, mental disorder, sexually abused, pay back, emotions, money, drugs, alcohol and the way your raised can be a part of it. Boredom can lead to doing stupid things. Killing someone, accidental or not, stealing, and vandalism. People in many age groups, starting at around 13 and up start hanging out with kids that peer pressure them to do things you wouldn't normally do. Courtenay has a lot of vandalism and stealing, there isn't a lot of stabbing or shootings. Any crime you do, there are consequences for your actions. The law is there for a reason. Every individual has the right to say no to something they don't want to do. If you have a mental disorder, or you sleep walk, it's different. There is still a consequence, its just isn't as harsh of one. It doesn't matter if your friend peer pressures you, it is still your choice to not follow, or to follow. When teenagers or adults are bored they're most likely going to find something to do that causes trouble, or is a crime. Crime is a serious offence and they make punishments to assure and try to keep the people in the community under control. Without the law, things would be out of control and people would do what they please without worring about getting in trouble with the law.
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/04/30/18087656.html ( When you bored, a lot of people resort to drinking.)
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2011/04/29/18084976.html ( This person sexually assulted someone.)