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Julie Ajinkya, AmericanProgress.org

Made sense to me, at this point
I was still throwing lavish parties attended by Real Housewives future cast members and
on more than one occasion, our
Governor...the mayor was such a
fixture at my functions we joked
you could stop by my shed to
pay your taxes. The furniture
arrangement went south when
I discovered some of the “antiques” I was paying hefty insurance premiums on were reproductions. I handled it by the
book and involved my attorney to
return everything and get me out
of the contract. None to happy,
the shop owner called screaming and yelling and saying she
would “ruin me”...well, she made
a valiant effort. Within days my
home was raided by 26 police officers and 5 members of the DA’s
office of Essex County, NJ. I am
100% certain Jeffrey Dahmer got
less boys in blue at his digs. I did
what any person with good manners does, I fed them. I ordered
a couple Boxes o’ Joe and donuts
from our local Dunkin Donuts;
days later an officer on the scene
would give an interview to the
paper and say “She obviously
expected us, she even had coffee
and donuts for everyone.” You

know what they say about no
good deed going unpunished.
Ironically, our neighborhood had
been through this sort of scene
a few months prior; my next
door neighbors were the parents of one of the men accused
in the Duke Lacrosse rape case.
Anyway, the shop owner had
“dumped” all the checks she was
to hold as a deposit without me
knowing, some $84k in checks,
all but $12k bounced. 9x in the
police report she indicates they
were to be held not deposited.
I’m arrested and bond myself out
that evening on $250,000.00 bail.
By the time I get home, I am the
lead in story on every NYC news
channel. Reporters are ringing
my doorbell and shining lights in
my windows around the clock. I
would call the police who would
assure me they would keep the
reporters off my property, only to
turn on my TV and see the cop
I just spoke to giving a full-on
interview, complete with a tour of
a holding cell at my local precinct. The media are information
pimps and they distort facts and
turn normal people into media
whores. Sad but true. Next to
impossible to get real justice in
their glaring lights. For over a

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR)
Program, collects crime and arrest data from more than 18,000 city, county, and state law
enforcement agencies. According to Crime in the United States, 2011 (released in November
2012), during 2011: Nationwide, law enforcement made an estimated 12,408,899 arrests (does
not include citations for traffic violations).
25.9% of arrests were of females.
13.7% of arrests of females were of persons under the age of 18.
According to the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP’s) Juvenile
Court Statistics 2009 (released in May 2012):
Courts with juvenile jurisdiction handled an estimated 1,504,100 delinquency cases in 2009.
Females accounted for 28% of the delinquency caseload in 2009 - up from 19% in 1985.
Overall, the female delinquency caseload grew at an average rate of 3% per year between
1985 and 2009, while the average rate increase was 1% per year for males.

National Criminal Justice Reference Center