Tag: Crime Statistics: Page 13

Patrol

Dallas Chief Bolsters Detective Ranks to Combat Robberies

Through the end of October, robberies were up about 5 percent from 2012, according to department statistics. Business robberies were up more than 20 percent.

November 10, 2013

Patrol

Detroit Chief: Debt Hinders Force's Effectiveness

“Everything’s broken,” Chief James Craig said during the third day of Detroit’s bankruptcy eligibility trial in federal court. “Deplorable conditions. Crime is extremely high, morale low.”

October 27, 2013

Patrol

The Detroit Blues

A force of 2,419 Detroit Police officers now provides law enforcement services to the shrinking city of just over 706,000 residents. Between 1990 and 2011, the city lost a third of its residents. Since 2003, the agency has lost a third of its officers.

October 9, 2013

Patrol

What's Really Going On With Crime Rates

For all its censuring of personnel for on-duty trysts and off-duty DUIs, the profession pays curiously little attention to an ongoing transgression perpetrated within it: stat fudging. Misreporting statistics about crime is not a new phenomenon.

October 8, 2013

Patrol

FBI: Violent Crime Rose Slightly In 2012

Police agencies reported a slight increase in violent crime along with a slight decrease in property crime in 2012, the FBI has announced.

September 16, 2013

Patrol

NYPD Memo: Indians Are Asian

New York City police officers received a lesson in demography Monday in the form of a memo clarifying the difference between Native Americans and Asian Indians.

September 12, 2013

Gangs

Is Mexican Cartel Activity In the U.S. Exaggerated?

Many of the Mexican cartel crimes in the illegal alien community go unreported. The ugly crimes of kidnapping, human trafficking, extortion, gang violence, and unsolved murders are often committed by Mexican cartel members in cities across the United States but remain unreported.

August 29, 2013

Training

Are You Really That Safe?

Can a community’s safety be judged by the number of crimes that actually occur or by the crimes that are reported to police?

August 13, 2013

Patrol

Cardboard Cop Cuts Crime In Mass.

As part of an effort to cut crime at the Alewife MBTA subway and bus station in Cambridge, transit police placed a cardboard cutout of a police officer in the bicycle cage.

August 5, 2013

Patrol

Officer Fatalities Rise, Still Near 60-Year Low

Law enforcement saw a 9 percent increase in the number of officers killed on duty during the first half of 2013. Despite the increase, it marked the second lowest number since 1963. There were 51 officers killed from January through June.

July 10, 2013

Vehicle Ops

Ford F-250 Most Stolen Vehicle, Modesto Hottest Spot

The all-wheel Ford F-250 crew cab pickup truck has surpassed the Cadillac Escalade as the most stolen insured vehicle and Modesto, Calif., again became the jurisdiction with the most per-capita auto thefts, according to two insurance associations.

July 8, 2013

Gangs

Mexican Cartels Have Infiltrated Your City

Mexican drug cartels are now operating deep in the U.S., according to the recent Associated Press report. They're operating not just in border areas. They're making beach heads in suburban communities.

April 28, 2013