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NBC Bay Area
Second Mistrial For Former San Francisco Crime Lab Tech
NBC Bay Area
The first time you don't succeed, try, try again. But it remains to be seen if federal prosecutors will try for a third time in the case of the accused drug-skimming crime lab tech. The second trial of Deborah Madden, the former San Francisco police ...

Rockland sees record low crime rate
Bangor Daily News
Rockland reported 326 crimes during 2012 that are included in the uniform crime reports filed with the Maine Department of Public Safety. Those offenses used to determine crime rates are limited to murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary ...

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After retiring due to crime scene trauma, New Jersey cop opens crime scene ...
Washington Examiner
Timothy Carroll retired at age 33. He claimed he was “totally and permanently” disabled by the trauma of seeing dead bodies while working as a sheriff's officer in Morris County, New Jersey. “I suffer from crime scene flashbacks and hallucinations due ...

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Chief Kahley: Web survey misrepresents York crime stats
York Daily Record
Recently I have been asked to respond to a web survey that ranked York as the 18th most dangerous city in the United States. As a result of these requests I thought the best course of action would be to write a letter to the editor discussing this ...
VB sees slight downfall in crimeWAVY-TV
Virginia Beach reports slight decrease in crime rateWVEC.com (subscription)
FBI: Violent crime drops in Kansas City for first half of 2012Kansas City Business Journal
Jacksonville Business Journal (blog)
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Stanford Report
Stanford mathematician models the spread – and prevention – of crime as a wave
Stanford Report
'It's not enough to crack down on crime without changing the attitude of the community,' says Stanford researcher Nancy Rodriguez. Crime can happen anywhere, but it usually doesn't. Researchers have noticed that criminal activity seems to be ...

New York Times (blog)
Crime Report: Violent Salami Theft
New York Times (blog)
Officers in the 88th Precinct arrested Feronde Polite, 51, after she allegedly punched, bit and scratched a clerk who confronted her about shoplifting at a Myrtle Avenue grocery store on Jan. 26 at 8 p.m., cops said. A clerk at the store told officer ...

Examiner.com
'Spring Breakers' Red Band Trailer: Sex and Crime Go Hand in Hand With ...
/FILM (blog)
When Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers premiered in Toronto late last year, it instantly became a must-see film. Some people hated it, other people loved it; arguments went that many either loved that they hated it so much or hated that they loved it so ...
'Spring Breakers' is the sex and crime movie of 2013 (Trailer)Examiner.com
'Spring Breakers' Red-Band Trailer: Crime Pays As Long As You're With James ...Geeks of Doom

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Lies, Crime and Greek Statistics
Bloomberg
Last week, prosecutors brought felony charges against Andreas Georgiou, the head of the Greek statistics office, and two employees for allegedly falsifying Greece's 2009 fiscal data. The prosecutors have made a curious choice of villain. I sat next to ...

VB sees slight downfall in crime
WAVY-TV
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - Virginia Beach Police say the city saw the lowest Part I crime rate since 1965 in 2012. Jimmy Barnes with the Virginia Beach Police Department said the rate in 2012 for Part I crimes was 28.1 crimes per 1,000 residents.
Chief Kahley: Web survey misrepresents York crime statsYork Daily Record
FBI: Violent crime drops in Kansas City for first half of 2012Kansas City Business Journal
Virginia Beach reports slight decrease in crime rateWVEC.com (subscription)
Jacksonville Business Journal (blog)
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CBS Local
DNA Evidence Error Found In NYC Crime Lab
CBS Local
One employee has been fired and another suspended after the crime lab discovered more than 50 cases in which DNA samples weren't sent to a state database, WCBS 880′s Marla Diamond reported. The oversight prevented the samples from being ...
Mishandling of DNA Evidence Is Found in Over 50 Cases at Crime LabNew York Times

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abc7news.com
2nd mistrial in trial of former San Francisco crime lab tech
San Jose Mercury News
SAN FRANCISCO -- A second mistrial has been declared in the federal trial of a former San Francisco Police's crime lab technician accused of skimming cocaine from the lab. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston declared the mistrial Thursday in the case ...
Second mistrial declared in SF crime lab scandalabc7news.com

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Lock doors to best prevent crime, businesses advised
Corvallis Gazette Times
As part of DCA's Brown Bag Workshop series, Harvey offered information to business owners and community partners during a noon presentation about different kinds of property crime, the motives behind them and how to prevent and react to them. Last year ...

FBI releases 2012 crime stats for largest U.S. cities; Jacksonville in top 100
Jacksonville Business Journal (blog)
The FBI has released preliminary statistics from its annual Uniform Crime Report for the largest U.S. cities. The data ranks violent and property crimes reported during the first six months of 2012 in cities with more than 100,000 people. Jacksonville ...