Crime, Criminology, and Criminal Justice Update for Friday, July 14, 2023
Happy Friday, this is Dr. Currie Myers, America’s Criminologist, with this important crime, criminology, and criminal justice update for the week.
A man who risked his life in Afghanistan serving as a translator for the Army was brutally slain — not by the Taliban in the streets of Kabul, but by young criminals in the streets of Washington DC. Nasrat Ahmad Yar was driving for Lyft to help provide for his wife and four children. Ahmad Yar had worked for the U.S. government for nearly 20 years, star…
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