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Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office east bank crime report, May 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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Columbia football player charged with hate crime
Yahoo! Sports
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Columbia University football player has been charged with a hate crime for allegedly assaulting another student and using racial slurs. Chad Washington was charged with misdemeanor aggravated harassment as a hate crime.
Chad Washington charged in NYESPN
Columbia University Football Player Charged With Hate Crime For Allegedly ...Business Insider
Columbia University Football Player Charged With Hate CrimeNBC New York
Wall Street Journal (blog)
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Crime alerts for Mid-Wilshire and 18 other LA neighborhoods
Los Angeles Times
Crime reports are up significantly for the latest week in 19 Los Angeles neighborhoods, according to an analysis of LAPD data by the Los Angeles Times' Crime L.A. database. Thirteen neighborhoods reported a significant increase in violent crime.

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Bangladesh Islamist gets death for war crimes, raising fears of protests
Reuters
DHAKA (Reuters) - A Bangladesh war crimes tribunal convicted and sentenced an Islamist party leader to death on Thursday, raising fears of a repeat of clashes between police and protesters after similar sentences were handed down earlier this year.
Bangladesh Braces for Unrest as Judges Prepare War Crime Verdict - VOAVoice of America

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Aljazeera.com
UK street preachers spread anti-crime gospel
Aljazeera.com
Its UK report is an offshoot of its well-established Global Peace Index that measures levels of "peacefulness" in societies according to variables such as levels of violent crime, homicides and violent demonstrations - as well as perceptions of ...

Surefire ways to become a crime victim on vacation - USA Today
USA TODAY
There's something about being on vacation that turns travelers into easy marks. No one wants to get mugged, but new surroundings, vacation giddiness, and a lack of caution can leave even savvy travelers vulnerable to opportunistic thieves. I should know.

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Chad Washington charged in NY
ESPN
Chad Washington, a junior defensive lineman for Columbia, has been charged with a hate crime after he allegedly threatened another student and called him racial slurs, NBC New York reported Wednesday. According to law-enforcement officials, ...
Columbia 'hate' rapNew York Post
Columbia Football Player Charged With Hate CrimeGothamist
Columbia Student Charged With Hate CrimeWall Street Journal (blog)
The Grio
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NOPD touts lower violent crime numbers in beginning of 2013, but some ...
NOLA.com
Violent crime overall was down by 8 percent from Jan. 1 through March 31, according to the NOPD's first quarter FBI Uniform Crime Report: Murders decreased from 45 in 2012 to 43 this year in the time period (4 percent); rapes decreased from 38 to 31 ...
NOPD: Violent crime falls in first quarter of 2013WWL
NOPD says crime is up slightly - Bayoubuzz.comBayoubuzz

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Police chief in crime-ridden Oakland plans to retire
Yahoo! News
Howard Jordan, 47, made the announcement on the Oakland Police Department website as he was scheduled to unveil a report on curtailing crime in a city that had 131 homicides in 2012, making it one of the country's most dangerous places. The Northern ...

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Christian Science Monitor
Arias trial: Does her crime 'justify' the death penalty?
Christian Science Monitor
The case, which began in early January and was streamed live on the Internet, drew parallels with the similarly high-profile Florida murder trial of Casey Anthony, another young woman charged with an unthinkable crime. She was ultimately acquitted in ...
Jodi Arias murder case: Timeline of the crime and sensational trialSan Jose Mercury News
Arias says she'd prefer death over prisonFort Worth Star Telegram
Jodi Arias found guilty of first-degree murderNOLA.com

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Sleeping jurors, heroin conspiracy, taxicab rape and more local crime news you ...
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Sleeping jurors, heroin conspiracy, taxicab rape and more local crime news you might have missed today. crime-tape-generic.jpg. Print · Paula Devlin, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Paula Devlin, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune ...

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Police, Neighborhood Associations Try to Curb Warm Weather Crime Spike
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CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa- As temperatures rise, so does the crime rate. That trend is typical as burglars are considered 'fair weather thieves' with opportunities to steal from open garages or cars with the windows down. Compare January through April crimes ...

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Jodi Arias murder case: Timeline of the crime and sensational trial
San Jose Mercury News
PHOENIX -- The Jodi Arias murder trial has drawn international attention for its graphic tales of sex and lies. Here's a timeline of some of the key events in the case: -- September 2006: Arias and Travis Alexander meet at a work convention in Las ...
AP: Arias looked surprised as guilty verdict readFort Worth Star Telegram (blog)

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Feds stepping up to help fight crime - WISH
WISH
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) - U.S. Attorney Joseph Hogsett is lending federal investigators to decrease crime in the city of Indianapolis after homicide detectives responded to three murders in less than 12 hours on Tuesday. As of Wednesday, there's been 44 ...
Erika D. Smith: Federal crackdown on gun crime in black neighborhoods is ...Indianapolis Star

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India Today
Sikh man, 82, beaten with pipe in Fresno in suspected hate crime
Los Angeles Times
FRESNO -- An 82 year-old Sikh man was beaten with a steel pipe outside a Fresno temple in what police believe is a hate crime, setting the Central Valley's well-established Sikh community on edge. Piara Singh, strong for his age and universally known ...
Elderly man assaulted in the latest hate crime attack on Sikhs - ChicagoNowChicagoNow (blog)
Fresno police: Sikh beating a possible hate crimeVisalia Times-Delta
Hate crime: 82-year-old Sikh brutally assaulted outside US GurdwaraIndian Express

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Success of crime prevention grants questioned
Fox 59
INDIANAPOLIS – Since 2009, Mayor Greg Ballard has made approximately $10 million of city money available to pay for community crime prevention programs, but city leaders are uncertain if the funds have been well spent. “There's some isolated success in ...

The Science of Preventing Crime
Huffington Post
2054: In the movie Minority Report, imaginary Washington D.C. Police Chief John Anderton (Tom Cruise) was the head of a special elite force responsible for reducing crime to almost nothing, by using super gifted humans called the pre-cogs, who were ...

Bangladesh Braces for Unrest as Judges Prepare War Crime Verdict - VOA
Voice of America
DHAKA — A Bangladeshi war crimes tribunal is due to pronounce judgment on a top Islamist politician on Thursday, raising fears a guilty verdict could ignite a fresh round of clashes between members of his party and security forces. Bangladesh, reeling ...

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Crime Watch: Readers point out more scams to avoid
MiamiHerald.com
Below are two emails I received after my last column on scams that have been making the rounds. Dear Carmen: I read your article in today's Neighbors on the latest scams. I have received four telephone calls over the past six weeks with yet another one.

Mother Jones
How Thinking About Thinking Reduced Crime in Chicago
Mother Jones
We find that participation reduced violent crime arrests by 8.1 arrests per 100 youth....Arrests in our “other” (non-violent, non-property, non-drug) category decreased by 11.5 arrests per 100 youth....Participation also led to lasting gains in an ...

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