On Wednesday, a former Tulsa deputy who fatally shot an unarmed, restrained suspect after mistaking his gun for his Taser was convicted of second-degree manslaughter, the Associated Press reports.

Responding to criticism after his officers handcuffed and arrested school children as young as 6 for failing to stop a fight, a police chief in Tennessee said on Sunday he was “so sorry this incident happened,” Mediaite reports.

On Monday, one of the five people prosecutors say former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert sexually abused filed a lawsuit claiming Hastert failed to pay off a secret $3.5 million dollar settlement, ABC News reports.

Authorities say marijuana “grow operations” were found at three of the four crime scenes where eight members of a rural Ohio family were murdered in “preplanned executions” this week, the Chillicothe Gazette reports.

In Manhattan, the NYPD will no longer throw you in jail for asking a fellow citizen for a little help. Wow—civilized!

Belgian law enforcement has just released the following video of a suspect in the March 22nd terror attack in Brussels, considered to be the sole surviving bomber.

Let’s look at a few recent headlines published yesterday and today about crime in New York City. “New York City just recorded its fewest shootings ever,” reads a Fusion article from this morning, which aggregated the Huffington Post’s report, “New York City Murder Rate Drops To Historic Low.” Police magazine, however, took a different approach: “NYPD Union Chief Blames ‘Anti-Police Atmosphere’ for Rise in Shootings, Slashings.”

With the utter breakdown of the public defender system in Louisiana showing no sign of abating, the New Orleans Times-Picayune has published a profile of an average public defense attorney who has remained loyal to the cause despite having every conceivable reason to find a new job. In a detail that English teachers in Louisiana would no doubt describe as the perfect example of irony if Louisiana education budgets weren’t sitting on the chopping block alongside the public defender system, the article notes that the defender’s office is so broke it can’t even afford a lawyer for itself.

Enger Javier, a Bronx man who was arrested for manslaughter and spent a year in Rikers Island before charges against him were dropped in February, will file a lawsuit against the City of New York on Monday. In the suit, Javier’s attorney alleges that an NYPD detective said, “We got the right spic,” in reference to his arrest, and that he was repeatedly denied when he asked for a lawyer.

Andre Hatchett was 24 years old when he was convicted of murdering a woman in a Brooklyn park. This week, he was exonerated and set free at the age of 49.

A new report compares Los Angeles County’s Juvenile Hall to a “Third World country prison.”

Chrissie Thompson and Jessie Balmert of the Cincinnati Enquirer report that a campaign staffer for John Kasich, the governor of Ohio and fourth-place Republican presidential candidate, was fired today after the campaign learned he had been arrested late last year on domestic violence charges:

The Romanian hacker known as Guccifer (real name: Marcel Lazăr Lehel) gained infamy in 2013 after hacking the email accounts of several prominent American political figures, including Colin Powell and Clinton-confidant Sydney Blumenthal. Now, his homeland is handing him over.

On Sunday, an off-duty rookie NYPD officer named Vincent Harrison was killed by a hit-and-run driver on the New Jersey Turnpike. According to a local news report, Harrison told another driver “I can kill you right now” in a bizarre scene moments before his death.

Is New York a city in decline? DNAinfo reports that last week, an unnamed thief stole $113.80 in Häagen-Dazs ice cream from a Times Square Duane Reade. The news comes after reports of 10 other large-scale Häagen-Dazs thefts over the last four months. Forget about subway slashings—the ice cream thief’s spree is what New Yorkers should really be afraid of.

It has been clear for many years that America’s “War on Drugs” is a failure from a moral perspective. For you hard-headed realists, it is worth remembering that it is a failure from an economic perspective, as well.

Starting at around 6:00 p.m. this evening until roughly 1 a.m., an unidentified shooter killed six people seemingly at random in multiple locations throughout Kalamazoo, Michigan. Two more victims remain in critical condition, and the suspect, a 45-year-old man, is currently in custody.

After a New York teenager gave a panhandler $1 last week, police say the panhandler hugged him and said “God bless you,” while stealing the boy’s $500 iPhone. The priceless lesson he received is a bargain at $501.

Lee Baca was the sheriff of Los Angeles County for 15 years beginning in 1999. Soon, he could be sentenced to jail.

Yesterday, less than a week after the Bronx District Attorney announced that manslaughter charges against Enger Javier would be dropped, a judge formally threw the charges out. Javier, who has long maintained his innocence, spent two years in Rikers Island for the alleged killing, and two more on house arrest.