By Travis Gillmore More than 200 businesses in Oakland, California, shut their doors in protest Sept. 26—with some closing for hours and others for the day—to object to policies they say are allowing criminal activity to impact their livelihood and the community’s safety. Organizers held a press conference the same day in front of La […]
Tag: Crime
In ordinary language, a crime is an unlawful act punishable by a state or other authority. The term crime does not, in modern criminal law, have any simple and universally accepted definition, though statutory definitions have been provided for certain purposes.
