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Shorthanded Antioch Police Ask Mail Carriers, Garbage Collectors To Help Spot ...
CBS Local
ANTIOCH (CBS SF) – The shorthanded Antioch Police Department is enlisting the help of local garbage collectors and letter carriers tospot crime on city streets. The Bay Area News Group reports that employees of the local trash collector, Republic ...

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Crime alerts for Arlington Heights and seven other LA neighborhoods
Los Angeles Times
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in eight L.A. neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database. Five neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime. Arlington ...

Neighborhood hopes to crack down on crime with app
WISH
Neighbors in the Golden Hill area are using a free mobile app to stay in touch with one another. The app, called Nextdoor, allows neighbors to stay connected through their cell phones and computers. “I like the aspect of the social media. You can ...

DeKalb neighborhood unites to fight crime
WSB Atlanta
Snow says he began to notice a decrease in crime after their signs went up and cameras started rolling. Snow said pictures are worth a lot more, that video is worth a lot more than his say so. He said one neighbor even had a bunch of clothing stolen ...

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Police: City has 13 percent crime dip, fewer weapons on streets
Chicago Sun-Times
There was a 13 percent dip in overall crime and 3,000 fewer illegal weapons on the streets of Chicago this year, announced Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy on Monday. “We're having a good year in comparison to where we've been in the past in this ...

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Crime Stoppers proves to be successful in Texas
KVUE
Every week KVUE, Capital Area Crime Stoppers and the Austin Police Department team up to bring you a crime of the week. Crime Stoppers is one of the most successful crime-fighting tools in the state. The anonymous tip line has a major track record of ...

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Opposing Views
Gun groups arming single women in high-crime neighborhoods
AMERICAblog (blog)
Chris sent me an article about a Houston pro-gun nonprofit, the Armed Citizens Project, that provides free shotguns to single women, and residents of high-crime neighborhoods. It's a smart move, strategically. One thing that's always disturbed me about ...
Groups arms single women in high-crime areasScranton Times-Tribune
Houston Nonprofit Giving Away Free Shotguns to Single Residents of High ...Opposing Views

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Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office West Bank crime report, June 9
NOLA.com
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office West Bank crime report, June 9. JPSO sign.JPG. Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office West Bank crime report, June 9. (NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune archive). Print · Michelle Hunter, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By ...

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Watchdogs urge better reporting of cruise ship crime
USA TODAY
Does what happens on a cruise ship stay on the cruise ship? That's the question some people -- including a U.S. senator -- are asking cruise lines. It shouldn't be that way, say some industry watchdogs about what they call questionable reporting of ...

Center For American Progress
Recommendations for Executive Action to Combat Illegal Gun Trafficking and ...
Center For American Progress
Each of these attempted purchases is a crime, but federal law enforcement rarely chooses to pursue these cases. In 2010, for example, 72,659 gun sales were denied by NICS, a total of 1.2 percent of all NICS background checks. After further review and ...

Démocrate D - 'Le Crime'
Jalopnik
Traffic sucks, so why not start your morning off with some music? You provide the toast and we'll provide the jams. Somehow my few semesters of French in college have escaped me and I can no longer tell you what the hell Démocrate D is saying. But I ...

Taking neighborhoods back: Local residents take aim at crime as petty crime ...
Times-Standard
Although many officials can agree that overcrowding in the county jail as a result of the state's prison realignment plan and a poor economy are contributing to the jump in crime, finding workable solutions to those problems hasn't proven as easy.

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Crime in Berkeley: May 26 – June 1
Daily Californian
These CFS numbers only reflect part of crimes reported to BPD. The numbers reflected in the report are only a snapshot of what occurs in the city of Berkeley. The numbers are considered for informational purposes only and should not be used for data ...

Boston Globe
'King & Maxwell' too cute for their own good
Boston Globe
If your cutesy-ometer is exquisitely sensitive, stay away from “King & Maxwell,” TNT's new private eye series. It will send your little arrow into the red, your eyes will roll toward the skies, and your cynicism alarm will sound, loudly. The show ...

Cliched plots are a crime in 'King & Maxwell'
Boston Herald
TNT's latest crime drama reeks of stale TV crime procedurals from the '70s and '80s. Take two attractive leads, saddle them with tortured pasts, mix with red herrings and unspool for an hour. This is the kind of show that makes “Castle” look like ...

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Lupica: Gun violence plague rages as one maddening crime replaces another at ...
New York Daily News
It takes fewer than seven full days this time for an 11-year-old Brooklyn girl paralyzed by a bullet that ends up lodged in her spine to become last week's news in an America where gun violence sometimes seems to play out as regularly as the baseball ...

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Monday Q&A: Crime Stoppers director is far from clueless
Modesto Bee
MODESTO -- The Crime Stoppers program in Stanislaus County was designed to encourage the public to help law enforcement capture wanted fugitives, and Carla Castro has played a key role in developing the tipsters hot line. She's the executive director ...

Report: Former state crime lab supervisor involved in possible cover-up
kdvr.com
DENVER — An internal review of the state crime laboratory, which concluded in March but was only released on Friday, reportedly found that the supervisor overseeing the lab often biased in favor of prosecutors. The audit, conducted by the Colorado ...

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Frank Dolejsi, newly retired director of BCA crime lab, aided evolving field
Pioneer Press
(Pioneer Press: Jean Pieri). Forensic scientists at the state crime lab examine blood and guns, but they recognize these are not isolated objects -- they're evidence of horrible crimes and victims who have suffered. Their day-to-day contact with life's ...

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Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office West Bank crime report, June 8
NOLA.com
This information reflects initial calls for service reported by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office for the west bank of Jefferson Parish. Locations are approximate due to automated location methods and address inconsistencies, the Sheriff's Office ...

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