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Computers have revolutionized the art of crime mapping. Once just an exercise of sticking pins into a map glued to a bulletin board, crime mapping is now built on a foundation of “geographic information systems,” or GIS, a fancy term for creating, updating, and analyzing computerized maps.
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The public can now search an online sex offender registry for free through the company APSCREEN.
Read More →The National Equipment Register (NER) has released its first annual study analyzing the problem of heavy equipment theft in the United States.
Read More →A motorist in New Brunswick, N.J., who was cited by an officer for having an unregistered vehicle, got his car registered online before the ticket was written.
Read More →Larry Oliver, police chief of the Detroit Police Department since February 2002, stepped down from his position after an undeclared, unregistered loaded handgun was found in his checked luggage at the airport.
Read More →The House of Representatives has approved a package of child protection legislation that would create a national Amber Alert child kidnapping notification network as well as strengthen the nation’s child pornography laws.
Read More →The National Equipment Register (NER) has released a guide to investigating theft of heavy equipment, available free to all law enforcement officers.
Read More →California has lost track of more than 33,000 convicted sex offenders, although a law requires all rapists and child molesters to register each year
Read More →Karen Shook, a 49-year-old former bank teller who was sentenced to at least 20 years in prison in 1993 for arranging a drug deal, could be paroled 10 years early under legislation expected to be signed by the governor of Michigan within the next week to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.
Read More →Several criminologists dispute a new report by a private publishing company that ranks unsafe cities, saying the ranking is based on flimsy and flawed methods.
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