Day: August 13, 2021

CO: Colorado Ped Patrol chases internet child predators along the Front Range as an audience watches online

R H

Source: denverpost.com 8/11/21 Local police discourage the vigilante stings as they worry about public safety Andy Cross, The Denver Post By Noelle Phillips | nphillips@denverpost.com | The Denver Post PUBLISHED: August 11, 2021 at 6:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 11, 2021 at 9:09 a.m. Tommy Fellows hands shook as he looked at the text message from a man who said he wanted to meet a teenage girl for sex. “What are u going to wear for daddy when I pick u up?” the message said. Fellows handed the phone back…

Read More

The New “Crime Wave” Panic and the Long Shadow of John Walsh

R H

Source: newrepublic.com 8/13/21 We are still living in the world that Walsh, and “America’s Most Wanted,” helped build: a paranoid populace that believes crime is everywhere and can only be solved through relentless policing. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images John and Revé Walsh’s lives changed on July 27, 1981, when Revé took her six-year-old son, Adam, to the Sears department store in a mall in Hollywood, Florida. Adam had asked to visit the toy department while his mother browsed the lighting and home furnishings section just a few aisles away. As Revé…

Read More