Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Governing Through Crime

Criminal Law

: Governing Through Crime

Monsters and Metaphors: Crime Does Not Define Us

By Jonathan Simor

Lovelle Mixon" He's not a monster" Enjoli Mixon 24, Oakland resident, of her brother Lovelle MixonThe violence itself, and now even the medical after story are over, but the deaths of four Oakland police officers Saturday continues to work its way into the emotional lives and imagination of Oakland and the Bay Area (as many as 20,000 are expected to attend a memorial service 11 am this coming Friday at the Oracle Arena at 7000 Coliseum Way in Oakland). Two important narratives are forming around this event. One is coming largely from ordinary people who see in the tragedy a reflection of a community which has lost its moral bearings and that seems to be heading into ever worsening violence(read Carolyn Jones and Leslie Fulbright reporting in the SFChron)...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).