By Jacob Fuller
April 18, 2012
"All units, Ridgeland PD in pursuit. Gray Crown Victoria on lower (Spillway) Road, request assistance," a voice said over the police scanner from Reservoir Control tower.
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Mississippi Pardongate: What’s Next?
By R.L. Nave
February 1, 2012
When state investigators caught up to convicted murderer Joseph Ozment Sunday night, he was living in a Laramie, Wyo., hotel and driving the Mercedes-Benz of his fiancée, LaChina Tillman, an engineer with defense contracting giant Northrop Grumman.
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February 1, 2012
When state investigators caught up to convicted murderer Joseph Ozment Sunday night, he was living in a Laramie, Wyo., hotel and driving the Mercedes-Benz of his fiancée, LaChina Tillman, an engineer with defense contracting giant Northrop Grumman.
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The Barbour Pardons: How We Got Here
by R.L. Nave and Ronni Mott
February 1, 2012
July 2008: Gov. Haley Barbour grants clemency to five convicted criminals assigned to work in the governor's mansion by the Mississippi Department of Corrections after reducing their status' to minimum security: Michael Graham, Clarence Jones, Paul Warnock,…
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February 1, 2012
July 2008: Gov. Haley Barbour grants clemency to five convicted criminals assigned to work in the governor's mansion by the Mississippi Department of Corrections after reducing their status' to minimum security: Michael Graham, Clarence Jones, Paul Warnock,…
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The Color of Clemency
by R.L. Nave
February 1, 2012
Mississippi's pardon process isn't race-blind, either. A Reuters analysis, completed by Himanshu Ojha, Marcus Stern and Jackson Free Press stringer Robbie Ward, found that the more than 200 acts of clemency former Gov. Haley Barbour granted during his tenure helped…
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February 1, 2012
Mississippi's pardon process isn't race-blind, either. A Reuters analysis, completed by Himanshu Ojha, Marcus Stern and Jackson Free Press stringer Robbie Ward, found that the more than 200 acts of clemency former Gov. Haley Barbour granted during his tenure helped…
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Pushing Kids Out
Feeding the 'Cradle-to-Prison' Pipeline
by Valerie Wells
January 18, 2012
Drodriquez Williams watched the news that night about the twin towers at the World Trade Center collapsing Sept. 11, 2001. It shocked the 9-year-old boy. Every time he saw the footage of the…
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by Valerie Wells
January 18, 2012
Drodriquez Williams watched the news that night about the twin towers at the World Trade Center collapsing Sept. 11, 2001. It shocked the 9-year-old boy. Every time he saw the footage of the…
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Why They Kill
by Donna Ladd
October 19, 2011
See JFP Crime Blog: http://www.jfp.ms/crime
Despite popular belief, violent criminals aren't born with a moral screw loose. They're not even turned into criminals because they grow up in single-parent homes (although having two good parents certainly…
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October 19, 2011
See JFP Crime Blog: http://www.jfp.ms/crime
Despite popular belief, violent criminals aren't born with a moral screw loose. They're not even turned into criminals because they grow up in single-parent homes (although having two good parents certainly…
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Divided We Fall: The Killing of James Craig Anderson
by Lacey McLaughlin
October 5, 2011
Jordan Richardson was fishing at Cornerstone Lake in Brandon in 2009 when a pickup truck pulled up. Three teenagers got out of their trucks and started walking toward him, and he knew he was in trouble. Deryl Dedmon, his peer…
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October 5, 2011
Jordan Richardson was fishing at Cornerstone Lake in Brandon in 2009 when a pickup truck pulled up. Three teenagers got out of their trucks and started walking toward him, and he knew he was in trouble. Deryl Dedmon, his peer…
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News Wars: The Rise and Fall of The Clarion-Ledger
by Valerie Wells
September 7, 2011
Orley Hood and Walter Philbin lugged their laundry bags into the laundromat near the Jitney 14 on Fortification Street. They sorted their clothes, put their coins in the slots and waited for the first wash cycle to begin. Then Philbin…
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September 7, 2011
Orley Hood and Walter Philbin lugged their laundry bags into the laundromat near the Jitney 14 on Fortification Street. They sorted their clothes, put their coins in the slots and waited for the first wash cycle to begin. Then Philbin…
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The JFP Interview With Tyrone Lewis
by Adam Lynch
June 15, 2011
Tyrone Lewis, former Jackson Police officer (1983-2010), police chief and Democratic candidate for Hinds County Sheriff, is not a small man. He stands about 6 feet, but his barrel chest is like a cowcatcher on a 19th-century steam locomotive. When…
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June 15, 2011
Tyrone Lewis, former Jackson Police officer (1983-2010), police chief and Democratic candidate for Hinds County Sheriff, is not a small man. He stands about 6 feet, but his barrel chest is like a cowcatcher on a 19th-century steam locomotive. When…
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Rush to Judgment: Trying Kids As Adults
by Valerie Wells and Donna Ladd
December 1, 2010
Tyler Wayne Edmonds took his last seventh-grade exam at Fifth Street Junior High School in West Point on a Thursday and was confident he had done well. So far, 2003 had turned out to be a pretty…
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December 1, 2010
Tyler Wayne Edmonds took his last seventh-grade exam at Fifth Street Junior High School in West Point on a Thursday and was confident he had done well. So far, 2003 had turned out to be a pretty…
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The Cost of ‘Tough on Crime’
by Adam Lynch
April 21, 2010
Jackson resident Almona Fleming is a placid woman, prone to introspective stares and thoughtful contemplation during interviews. Her calm demeanor says nothing about the writhing coil of hunger that for years twisted inside her, eating at both her stomach and…
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April 21, 2010
Jackson resident Almona Fleming is a placid woman, prone to introspective stares and thoughtful contemplation during interviews. Her calm demeanor says nothing about the writhing coil of hunger that for years twisted inside her, eating at both her stomach and…
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Did She Have To Die?
by Ronni Mott
October 7, 2009
By 10 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2007, the temperatures were well on their way to 93 degrees when Jackson Police Sgt. Eric Wall pulled his cruiser into the turn lane on Northside Drive east of Interstate 55, ready to make…
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October 7, 2009
By 10 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2007, the temperatures were well on their way to 93 degrees when Jackson Police Sgt. Eric Wall pulled his cruiser into the turn lane on Northside Drive east of Interstate 55, ready to make…
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Blind Eye: Easier Times for Bingo Crimes?
by Adam Lynch
May 7, 2008
Back in the 1990s, “Miami Vice” didn’t have a lot on the Charitable Enforcement Division of the Mississippi Gaming Commission—even if the “vice” the agency was busting was less sexy than Colombian drug lords.
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May 7, 2008
Back in the 1990s, “Miami Vice” didn’t have a lot on the Charitable Enforcement Division of the Mississippi Gaming Commission—even if the “vice” the agency was busting was less sexy than Colombian drug lords.
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The Klansman Bound: The Crime
by Donna Ladd
May 23, 2007
The last time Mazie Moore ever saw her boy, 19-year-old son Charles, he was standing in front of Dillon's gas station on Main Street in Meadville, trying to thumb a ride with his friend, Henry Dee, also 19. Mazie had…
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May 23, 2007
The last time Mazie Moore ever saw her boy, 19-year-old son Charles, he was standing in front of Dillon's gas station on Main Street in Meadville, trying to thumb a ride with his friend, Henry Dee, also 19. Mazie had…
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Fighting Crime: What’s The Plan?
by Adam Lynch
July 5, 2006
Also: Darren Schwindaman's editorial cartoon
Tempers flared at the June 27 Jackson City Council meeting between some council members and Jackson Mayor Frank Melton. To date, major crime is at least 16 percent higher than for…
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July 5, 2006
Also: Darren Schwindaman's editorial cartoon
Tempers flared at the June 27 Jackson City Council meeting between some council members and Jackson Mayor Frank Melton. To date, major crime is at least 16 percent higher than for…
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2005 Year In Review, Part 2: To Hell and Back
by JFP Staff
Jan. 4, 2006
The second half of 2005 turned out to be the most interesting six months any of us have lived through in a while. On the positive side, the city continued its march toward greatness - with increasing numbers of younger…
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Jan. 4, 2006
The second half of 2005 turned out to be the most interesting six months any of us have lived through in a while. On the positive side, the city continued its march toward greatness - with increasing numbers of younger…
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Melton’s Honeymoon, Part III: Crime and Punishment, Melton Style
by Adam Lynch
November 18, 2005
Frank Melton carried the May 2 mayoral primary in part because of a surly, take-no-prisoners attitude on crime. Melton used his 14-month tenure as head of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics to forge a local image as a hard-nosed delivery…
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November 18, 2005
Frank Melton carried the May 2 mayoral primary in part because of a surly, take-no-prisoners attitude on crime. Melton used his 14-month tenure as head of the Mississippi Bureau of Narcotics to forge a local image as a hard-nosed delivery…
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Radical Crime-Fighting: What is Community Policing?
by Donna Ladd
May 1, 2003
Police Chief Robert Moore could be the only man in the city who knows what "community policing" really means—and just how hard it could be to implement in Jackson. Yet, he is a believer, talking about it constantly, telling media…
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May 1, 2003
Police Chief Robert Moore could be the only man in the city who knows what "community policing" really means—and just how hard it could be to implement in Jackson. Yet, he is a believer, talking about it constantly, telling media…
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CRIME: Playing the Numbers
by Donna Ladd
April 17, 2003
The question of whether Jackson is "safe" has become about as polarizing as "Ford vs. Chevy" or "fats vs. carbohydrates." It depends on whom you ask. Crime is up 15 percent. Crime is down this month. Crime skyrocketed in February.…
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April 17, 2003
The question of whether Jackson is "safe" has become about as polarizing as "Ford vs. Chevy" or "fats vs. carbohydrates." It depends on whom you ask. Crime is up 15 percent. Crime is down this month. Crime skyrocketed in February.…
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Blame Game: Who’s At Fault for the City’s Crime?
Editor's Note: Links to all of the JFP's crime stories to date are archived below this story.
by Donna Ladd
April 3, 2003
The tall window of the Jackson Police Department's COMSTAT room on the 17th floor of the Standard Life Building looks…
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by Donna Ladd
April 3, 2003
The tall window of the Jackson Police Department's COMSTAT room on the 17th floor of the Standard Life Building looks…
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