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Violent crime and property crimes reported to law enforcement fell in the first half of 2011 despite a stagnant economy, the FBI announced Monday. The number of violent crimes declined 6.4%, when compared with figures from the first six months of 2010. The number of property crimes fell 3.7% in the same time frame.
Read More →The revamped description will be broader, pleasing activists who say the current definition leads to the low-balling of sexual assault cases, and also discourages victims from coming forward.
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A Florida Highway Patrol trooper's decision to pull over a speeding Miami PD cruiser on Florida's Turnpike sparked blue-on-blue tensions that verged on childishness.
Read More →A Dallas Police narcotics officer was wounded in an exchange of gunfire on Monday afternoon with a suspect on an Amtrak train in downtown. Senior Cpl. Samuel Hussey was shot in the hand in the shootout that also resulted in an injury to a bystander. The suspect was killed in the encounter.
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Two Duluth (Ga.) Police officers exchanged gunfire with suspects who attempted to rob a massage parlor.
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Two Duluth (Ga.) Police officers exchanged fire with a man and woman who attempted to rob a massage parlor, dodging a hail of rounds that struck a police cruiser.
Read More →The Penn State Board of Trustees appointed former FBI director and federal judge Louis J. Freeh to lead an independent investigation into the child sex abuse scandal, granting him broad investigative powers.
Read More →The Miami Police Department's policies, training and deployment practices will be scrutinized in a federal rights probe announced by the U.S. Justice Department today. The probe will focus on at least four of the seven fatal shootings of black men.
Read More →The number of reported hate crimes in the United States remained steady in 2010, according to the FBI's annual hate-crime report. There were 6,628 hate crime incidents reported last year, while 6,604 were reported in 2009, the FBI announced Monday.
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Ford's Police Interceptor sedan and utility will serve as pace cars for this year's Ford Championship weekend NASCAR races at Homestead Miami Speedway from Nov. 18-20, according to the company.
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