Tag: Crime Statistics: Page 18

Patrol

A New (Old) Approach to Crimefighting In Chicago

The city's new top cop is implementing a more traditional policing approach, by stressing the need for resources to be in the hands of district commanders to use as they see fit in the neighborhoods they oversee.

June 12, 2011

Gangs

Working Solo at Ground Zero

What is it going to take before police administrators double up these cars? There is no sane reason to send young cops out in solo units in areas like Compton's ground zero.

May 30, 2011

Patrol

FBI: Bank Crimes Fell In 2010

In 2010, there were 5,628 reported crimes against banking institutions compared with 6,065 violations in 2009. The 2010 data included 5,546 robberies, 74 burglaries, eight larcenies, and 13 extortion offenses that were reported to law enforcement.

April 6, 2011

Patrol

NYPD Rape Complaints Jump 24%

The NYPD logged 340 rape complaints in 2011, as compared with 274 in 2010. Brooklyn had the highest reported number (97), and Manhattan was second (86).

April 4, 2011

Technology

App Review: Police Partner

Police Partner by Clickz Designs takes away the need for clunky police notebooks and allows you to write all of your notes right there on your iPhone for review later.

March 29, 2011

Technology

Traffic Fatalities Drop In Cities With Red-Light Cameras

Researchers found that in the 14 cities that had cameras from 2004 to '08, the combined per capita rate of fatal red light running crashes fell 35 percent, compared with 1992-96. The rate also fell in the 48 cities without camera programs by 14 percent.

January 31, 2011

Patrol

California Sentences More To Die, Executes None

The state's death chamber was idle for a fifth year, because of legal challenges of lethal injection practices and a nationwide shortage of the key drug used in the three-injection procedure.

December 29, 2010

Special Units

Los Angeles To Record Less Than 300 Murders In 2010

About half of the murders in Los Angeles are gang crimes and considered "repressible," according to an editorial in the Los Angeles Times.

December 27, 2010

Patrol

Report: St. Louis Overtakes Camden As Nation's Most Dangerous City

The survey found that St. Louis had 2,070.1 violent crimes per 100,000 residents, compared with a national average of 429.4. The remaining five on the list included Detroit, Flint, Mich., and Oakland, Calif.

November 21, 2010

Patrol

FBI: Blacks, Jews Most Likely Hate-Crime Victims

Blacks made up around three-quarters of victims of the racially motivated hate crimes and Jews made up the same percentage of victims of anti-religious hate crimes. Anti-Muslim crimes were a distant second to crimes against Jews, making up just eight percent of the hate crimes driven by religious intolerance.

November 21, 2010

Special Units

Feds: Gang Ranks Swell as Violent Crime Drops

The findings are at odds for Justice Department officials, who acknowledge that violent crime is often triggered by gang affiliation.

October 31, 2010

Patrol

FBI Releases 2009 LEOKA Report

Law enforcement agencies identified 41 alleged assailants in connection with the 48 felonious line-of-duty deaths. Thirty-three of the assailants had prior criminal records, and 13 of the assailants were under judicial supervision at the time of the felonious incidents.

October 17, 2010