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Human Events
Norris: Do gun bans curb violent crime?
Human Events
Who isn't sickened by the moral decay and heinous acts of violence across our country? My heart and prayers continue to go out to victims everywhere. But do gun bans — such as the one proposed this past week by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., which ...

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Daily Mail
Alleged Bulgarian crime boss 'The Beret' shot outside court
NBCNews.com (blog)
An unidentified gunman shot and wounded a suspected Bulgarian crime boss nicknamed "The Beret," the latest blow to the center-right government's efforts to restore the rule of law and improve the Balkan country's image. Zlatomir Ivanov was shot four ...
Bulgarian crime boss shot and wounded in SofiaGlobalPost
Ivanov is known as Zlatko Baretata because he was once a member of counter ...Daily Mail
Right-Winger: Bulgarian PM Failed to Cope with Corruption, CrimeNovinite.com

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Three face hate crime charges after St. Charles fight
Kane County Chronicle
Updated: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 6:50 a.m. CST. Text Size: AaAaAaAaAa. ST. CHARLES – Three people have been charged with multiple felonies in connection with a physical altercation that police consider a hate crime, St. Charles police said Monday.
UPDATE: 3 Charged in St. Charles Hate-Crime Attack on Gay Men, Female FriendPatch.com
Three charged with hate crime in St CharlesWLS
3 charged with hate crime outside St. Charles barChicago Daily Herald

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Olivette retailer hit again by smash n' grabbers
KSDK
Video at the crime scene documented by KSDK Photojournalist Chris Cross shows the broken window damage, as well as the plywood covered doorway into the store. The boarded portion was from the previous smash and grab crime at the business just two ...

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Kansas City Star
After Gun Crime, Weapon History Takes Time To Find
NPR
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the fictional world of television police dramas, a few quick clicks on a computer lead investigators to the owner of a gun recovered at a bloody crime scene. Before the first commercial, the TV detectives are on the trail of the ...
Hermiston's violent crime drops in 2012East Oregonian

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After gun crime, weapon history takes time to find
U.S. News & World Report
WASHINGTON (AP) — In the fictional world of television police dramas, a few quick clicks on a computer lead investigators to the owner of a gun recovered at a bloody crime scene. Before the first commercial, the TV detectives are on the trail of the ...

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After a gun crime, history of a weapon takes time to find; ATF doesn't know ...
Minneapolis Star Tribune
WASHINGTON - There is no national database of guns. Not of who owns them, how many are sold annually or even how many exist. Federal law bars the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives from keeping track of guns. The only time the ...

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Onislam.net
Woman charged with hate crime in fatal shove from NYC subway platform is due ...
Fox News
NEW YORK – A woman accused of shoving a man to his death from a New York City subway platform is expected in court. Erika Menendez is being held on a charge of murder as a hate crime in the Dec. 29 death of 46-year-old India native Sunando Sen.
A Crime in New York CityOnislam.net

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Woman charged with hate crime in fatal shove from NYC subway platform is due ...
Washington Post
NEW YORK — A woman accused of shoving a man to his death from a New York City subway platform is expected in court. Erika Menendez is being held on a charge of murder as a hate crime in the Dec. 29 death of 46-year-old India native Sunando Sen.
A Crime in New York CityOnislam.net

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CBS Local
Citizens Worry Crime Will Rise As CHP No Longer Teamed Up With Stockton ...
CBS Local
STOCKTON (CBS13) – Stockton was under siege last year with a record number of murders; now the city is taking drastic efforts to crack down on crime, and it is working. However, one of the city's major crime-fighting tools is going away. California ...

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Lottery Row patrols aim to push crime from Hayden Island
kgw.com
"The crime that's in the area has turned into a culture," said island resident Jeff Geisler, who is sick of it. "I talked with one person who went to one of the bars and watched five drug deals happen inside one of the bars. I actually saw a guy ...

abc7.com
US Attorney probes Compton hate crime case
abc7.com
(KABC) -- The U.S. Attorney's Office will determine whether three suspects arrested on suspicion of a hate crime in Compton should be prosecuted on a federal level. Jeffrey Aguilar, 19, of Compton, and Efren Marquez, 21, of Riverside County, along with ...
Compton Leaders Demand Hate Crime Charges For Gang MembersCBS Local

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Do Gun Bans Curb Violent Crime? (Part 2 of 3 on reducing violent crime in the US)
Town Hall
Examiner.com elaborated: "Crime statistics compiled by a Northeastern University professor, the Census Bureau, and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel show that in the 10 years before the Clinton gun ban, there were 173 mass shootings with 766 victims.

Violent crime in Springfield rose in 2012
KY3
Aggravated assault was just one area in which crimes against people saw an increase in 2012 compared to 2011. Homicides jumped by more than 200-percent, the instances of rape went up by 28-percent, and there was a 23-percent increase in robberies.

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Bloomberg
Oakland Crime Shows City Losing in California Rebound
Bloomberg
The city of about 396,000 has hired former New York City Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to boost crime-fighting in a community where census data show 1-in-5 residents live in poverty, while 8 percent of owner-occupied homes are valued at $1 million ...
A look at Bill Bratton's crime rate track recordKGO-TV
Is William Bratton Getting Too Much Credit for the Crime Reductions He Oversaw?SF Weekly (blog)

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University, city follow national lower crime trend
Minnesota Daily
Following a national trend of a drop in crime rates, the University of Minnesota and the city of Minneapolis ended 2012 with historic lows in several categories of serious crime. The national downward trend in crime is because of better technology and ...