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Crime and Justice News
Sep 16, 20222 min read
Dallas Officials, Experts Say City's Plan To Cut Violent Crime Is Working
Dallas police and criminologists say the city’s violent-crime plan is working, citing an 11.5 percent drop in the number of...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 12, 20222 min read
Police Chiefs Cite 'Shocking' Data On Urban Violent Crime Rise
With under two months left before the midterm elections, the crime issue may be gaining even more relevance. A survey by the Major Cities...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 23, 20221 min read
Homicides Down Slightly in Portland After $6M Investment
After Portland reported a record number of homicides last year, city leaders invested $6 million in nonprofit programs and formed a new...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 8, 20222 min read
Violent Crime Edges Downward
Crime, murder and mass shootings have dominated headlines Over the weekend, a shooting in Cincinnati wounded nine people, and another in...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 4, 20222 min read
D.C. Asks Inmates What Officials Can Do To Reduce Crime
From behind bars at the Washington, D.C., jail, Sylvester Jones could sense that the streets in his city were even more dangerous than...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 2, 20222 min read
Chicago Homicides, Shootings Down, Overall Crime Total Up 35%
Seven months after Chicago ended its deadliest year in decades, the latest data shows shootings and homicides are significantly down,...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 15, 20222 min read
Rise in Gun Homicide Rates Highest in South Central, Midwest States
A rise in U.S. firearm homicides in recent years has primarily affected states in the South Central and Midwest parts of the nation, as...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 4, 20222 min read
Can Washington Do Much About Local Violent Crime?
Justice Department leaders are concerned about a postpandemic rise in violent crime and a growing sense that lawlessness is overtaking...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 30, 20222 min read
Retail Workers Want Action From Companies As Assaults Increase
During the pandemic's early months, stores became tinderboxes for a society frazzled by lockdowns, protests and mask mandates. Many...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 29, 20221 min read
Many Cities Reporting Homicides Down This Year
With significant upticks in homicides and some other crimes reported in many areas in 2020 and 2021, it is not surprising that there is...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 29, 20222 min read
Black Women's Homicide Rate Rise Exceeded Men's In 2020
In 2020, a year of rising homicides amid a devastating pandemic, the increase in the death rate for Black women rivaled that of Black...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 23, 20222 min read
Armed Robberies Of French Bulldogs Are Increasing
With perky ears, a please-pick-me-up-and-cradle-me gaze and their short-legged crocodile waddle, French bulldogs have become the “it” dog...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 13, 20222 min read
Rural Crime Spiked in 2020 Along With Violence in Cities
In Marion County, a swampy stretch of South Carolina, Sheriff Brian Wallace and his deputies worked nine killings in 2021, including the...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 25, 20222 min read
Transit Crime Increases Threaten Big Cities' COVID Recovery
Just as cities are trying to lure people back to formerly bustling downtowns, leaders are confronting transit crime rates that have risen...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 21, 20221 min read
With Inflation Rising, Small-Time Thefts Count As Felonies
Some states haven't changed their thresholds for felonies in years. Advocates are pushing them to update standards, arguing that outdated...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 18, 20222 min read
Public Transit Crime Rises As Overall Ridership Declines
Days after a gunman opened fire in a New York subway train, shooting 10, city officials are scrambling for new ways to protect riders....
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 23, 20221 min read
Mobile, Al., Officials Blame Trial Delays For Rising Violence
Mobile, Al., officials are criticizing the criminal justice system for contributing to a wave of violence that culminated this weekend in...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 8, 20222 min read
Pandemic Crime Trend: Fewer Offenses, More Victims Outside
Is the pandemic-era crime wave the most serious issue facing cities, or a media-driven distraction that threatens to quash social...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 7, 20222 min read
Liberal Seattle Struggles to Combat Big Rise in Gun Violence
Long one of the safest cities, Seattle had 612 shootings and shots-fired incidents last year, nearly double its pre-pandemic average. The...
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Crime and Justice News
Mar 1, 20221 min read
Younger Teens Accused In Carjackings; 'It's a Game'
An armed teenaged carjacker took a BMW in Washington, D.C., in January from Tariq Majeed, who was cleaning it in an alley for client...
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