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The Criterion
April 27, 2018
The Grand Junction Police Department published Annual Report for 2017 and the results show decreasing crime rates, which disagrees with information provided by the National Council for Home Safety and Security report "The Safest Cities in Colorado 2017." The NCHSS report, utilizing data based upon the FBI ...
Texarkana Gazette
April 27, 2018
Crime statistics in Texarkana, Ark., have decreased significantly within the past six months, according to information from Texarkana, Ark., Police Department. The department compared the Crime statistics from Nov. 1, 2017, through April 15, 2018, against the same period in 2016-17. According to ...
WWAY NewsChannel 3
April 27, 2018
WILMINGTON, NC (WWAY) -- Crime rates are at a historic low while the opioid epidemic continues to rise, that is how Wilmington Police Chief Ralph ... For 2018, Evangelous said he wants to increase efforts to battle the opioid epidemic, monitor gangs in the area, and continue to keep Crime rates down.
GoErie.com
April 26, 2018
Mayor Joe Schember discussed the statistics Thursday morning during his weekly news conference at City Hall. Several categories of crime in Erie -- including shots fired calls, robberies committed with a firearm and strong-arm robberies -- have declined in the first three months of 2018 when ...
erienewsnow.com
April 26, 2018
Shots Fired 43 21. Aggravated Assault 17 10. Gun Shot Victims 17 10. Armed Robbery (Firearm) 25 7. Robbery ( Knife) 1 5. Strong Arm Robbery 25 15. Robbery (Other) 0 0. Home Invasion Robbery 1 1. Criminal Homicide (Firearm) 3 2. Criminal Homicide (Other) 1 1. Firearms Recovered 45 44. ...
CNYcentral.com
April 26, 2018
It's a statistic that's shaking up an entire village, some neighbors in Solvay say it's hard to believe such a small area could rank so high in property crime rates. "I'm very surprised," James Palducci said. "I really feel like I can walk the streets any time I want and not have to worry." Palducci says he never noticed a problem ...
The Wilson Times
April 25, 2018
The city of Wilson's overall crime rate fell by nearly 8 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to newly released figures. Wilson Police Sgt. Steve Stroud ... But looking at a comparable city crime data, Greenville also saw an increase in aggravated assaults in 2017, he added. Stroud said Police believe one ... crime
FiveThirtyEight
April 19, 2018
On Tuesday, the FBI restored 70 data tables that were missing from the 2016 Crime in the United States report, providing data that researchers consider crucial to their understanding of crime trends in the U.S. over time. The yearly report is considered the gold standard for tracking crime statistics in ...
Irish Times
April 2, 2018
The decision by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) to recommence publishing crime statistics has been welcomed by Government and Garda headquarters. For the past nine months no new crime data has been available. The CSO was unwilling to publish any further crime numbers when so manyÃÂ ...
Community Impact Newspaper
April 2, 2018
According to the city of Sugar Land Police Department's annual report, a record-low Part 1 crime rate of 15.78 crimes per 1,000 residents was recorded in 2017—with the lowest number of crimes recorded since 1995. During recent crime events, police have used new technology efforts to discourage crimeÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
April 2, 2018
In 70 percent of the cities the researchers studied, crime rates stayed stable or fell while the immigrant population increased between 1980 and 2016. The 10 places with the largest increases in immigrants all had lower levels of crime in 2016 than in 1980. "We are not claiming that immigrants are neverÃÂ ...
The Franklin Sun
March 30, 2018
Mayo indicated his hopes that the community meeting would equip news reporters and members of the community with “facts” to fight the “fake news” propagated by NeighborhoodScout. How the newspapers and TV news stations reported on the city's crime rate affected his job, according to Mayo.
NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
March 23, 2018
Crime data shows that overall crime rate fell two percent, but violent crime rate rose five-point-five percent from 2016 to 2017 in Fort Worth. The murders rate went up seven percent across the city, while property crimes dropped slightly. Perhaps most striking is an increase in murders in the city's WestÃÂ ...
Hunter Valley News
March 22, 2018
THANKS to the proactive approach of local police, crime rates in the Upper Hunter electorate mirrored the state-wide trends, according to MP Michael ... “The latest quarterly data from the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research (BOCSAR) reflects the tireless efforts of local police and the cooperation of theÃÂ ...
WRAL.com
March 22, 2018
Road Snacks, a website that ranks states and cities across the country, used a 2016 FBI report on crime data to name the ten riskiest cities to call home in the Tar Heel State, with one being the most dangerous. Note: The FBI periodically releases crime statistics to the public but does not rank cities based onÃÂ ...
Business in Vancouver
March 21, 2018
Sure, unemployment is second lowest among cities surveyed and “you can drink some of the best wines in all of British Columbia” (unless you prefer beer), but Point2Homes notes the crime rate is high and housing affordability even worse. A Vancity report last year ranked Langley Township the 10th leastÃÂ ...
San Angelo Standard Times
March 21, 2018
SAN ANGELO — Depending on who you ask, San Angelo's crime rate is either skyrocketing out of control or has been exaggerated because of misleading numbers. During a Tuesday meeting of the San Angelo Pachyderm Club, Chief of Police Frank Carter, one of two invited guest speakers, used the lastÃÂ ...
Mansfield Courier
March 21, 2018
CRIME rates in the Mansfield Shire continue to rise, with a 2.6 per cent increase in offences recorded for the last year according to figures released by Victoria's Crime Statistics Agency. State Liberal MP Cindy McLeish (MLA, Eildon) said the increase was no surprise given the state's law and order crisis.
Wellington Times
March 21, 2018
Re-engineering of the Orana Local Area Command into the Orana Mid-Western Police District – which has 21 police stations and 230 staff – will allow police the resources and flexibility to achieve this goal, according to Inspector Skelly. He affirmed police will do their best to drive the crime rate down as lowÃÂ ...
WDAZ
March 21, 2018
"It's a concern because the crime rate seems to have gone up,” said Grand Forks resident, Gloria Towers. People in Grand Forks are worried about increased crime. "Young people if they have drugs in them they have a tendency not to think clearly. And I think they do things they wouldn't normally do,” saidÃÂ ...
SpaceCoastDaily.com
March 20, 2018
Today, I am extremely pleased to share that the 2017 UCR data reflects a significant 5.8% decrease in our reported Crime Rate as compared to 2016, and an overall decrease of 19.05% for our areas of our responsibility since January 2013. Essentially, our Crime Rate has now reached the lowest point inÃÂ ...
Gippsland Times
March 20, 2018
CRIMINAL incidents and recorded offences have fallen by 23 per cent in the year to December 2017 in Wellington Shire, according to the latest crime statistics. Statewide, there was an 8.6 per cent drop in the number of offences and a 9.9 per cent decrease in the offence rate. Wellington police service areaÃÂ ...
KCRG
March 20, 2018
But the violent crime rate in Dubuque is still among the lowest in Iowa. Police Chief Mark Dalsing said the increase is not based on any particular trend because crime has natural ebbs and flows. “So we don't know what's going to be pushing it one direction,” Chief Dalsing said “But there also is a piece withÃÂ ...
wpde.com
March 20, 2018
Numbers from the police department show crime rates have dropped. In 2017, the city had 61 assaults and this year they're down to 32. Police said there are also 58 less drug violations this year. "Burglaries [in] 2017, they had 18 and went down to 13. Talk about the larcenies, the property vandalism and they all went down,ÃÂ ...
The Nation
March 12, 2018
LAHORE - The overall crime rate swelled to an alarming level across the Punjab province during the first month of this year as compared to previous. The latest police data shows significant rise in the incidents of murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, rape and gang-rape as the province recorded highÃÂ ...
News Chief
March 12, 2018
Overall, the county's crime rate in 2017 totaled 16.4, meaning an average 16 of every 1,000 residents were victimized by crime in the sheriff's office service ... There's also an added sense of urgency in handling the information and constantly analyzing the agency's crime data, which enables deputies to beÃÂ ...
News Chief
March 11, 2018
Overall, the county's crime rate in 2017 totaled 16.4, meaning an average 16 of every 1,000 residents were victimized by crime in the sheriff's office service ... There's also an added sense of urgency in handling the information and constantly analyzing the agency's crime data, which enables deputies to beÃÂ ...
Brownsville Herald
March 10, 2018
The office received approval from county commissioners Tuesday to apply for a grant to fund software needed to switch over to the FBI's National Incident-Based Reporting System, or NIBRS for short, a more detailed method of collecting and reporting crime statistics. Under NIBRS, law enforcementÃÂ ...
WTOP
March 10, 2018
WASHINGTON — There's a new way to look at crime in D.C., as the District rolls out a new technology that visualizes its crime data by location. In an effort to increase transparency and improve crime reporting, Mayor Muriel Bowser announced the city's new “crime cards” technology, a project three years inÃÂ ...
SFGate
March 10, 2018
Researchers at UC Irvine compared 2015 crime rates in California to the rates in other states whose levels of specific crimes, like homicide, rape and larceny, had been virtually identical to California's from 1970 through 2014. They found that the 2015 rates in those comparison states were the same asÃÂ ...
Courier-Gazette & Camden Herald
March 8, 2018
The annual uniform crime reports for 2017 were released March 7 by Rockland Police Chief Bruce Boucher. The preliminary reports show that there were 181 crimes that are defined as index offenses in Rockland during 2017. Index offenses are murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny,ÃÂ ...
Fiji Sun Online
March 8, 2018
This was confirmed by the Southern Division Manager Committee Development (SDMCD) Superintendent of Police (SP) Iliesa Bolabiu at the Serua Provincial Council meeting at Namaqumaqua village yesterday. He said the only red zone now was the Pacific Harbour area. “We're keeping a tight watch onÃÂ ...
10News
March 8, 2018
La Mesa crime rates decrease to 50-year lows. Zac Self. 7:40 PM, Mar 7, 2018. Share Article. Previous Next. A new report from La Mesa Police show that crime in the city has decreased dramatically over the last year. Copyright 2014 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast,ÃÂ ...
ABC2 News
March 8, 2018
After national media attention calling Baltimore the country's most dangerous city, those who rely on tourism are working to the change the perception of the city. Police say violent crime is down so far this year, but that's coming off last year's record high murder rate. The Baltimore Tourism Association wantsÃÂ ...
Beloit Daily News
March 8, 2018
According to the department's FBI crime rate calculation, crime has decreased in Janesville from over 7,000 incidents per 100,000 residents in 1993 to just over 3,000 per 100,000 residents in 2017, with the trends reflecting state and national averages. Moore added that the high profile search andÃÂ ...
Dorchester Reporter
March 7, 2018
This was an article about Dorchester, asserting that it has a lower crime rate than most other areas of the city, but the piece defines the neighborhood as police district C-11, judging from the crime data cited. In the analysis in question, District C-11 and its 10 percent drop in crime is being projected toÃÂ ...
Redding Record Searchlight
March 7, 2018
Redding saw a near-flat year-over-year change in crime in 2017, while Johnson hasn't yet compiled crime data for the year. Johnson wasn't surprised by Anderson's higher crime rate, noting a larger city would likely have a “greater percentage of good people to bad people,” he said. Still, Anderson andÃÂ ...
Sioux Falls Argus Leader
March 7, 2018
South Dakota released its annual crime statistics today, and while the state has seen fewer crimes in some categories while others stay mostly unchanged, drug arrests remain on the rise. The state's arrest rate increased for the seventh consecutive year, ending with a total from 44,265 — up more thanÃÂ ...
Leavenworth Times
March 6, 2018
The city of Leavenworth's crime rate increased by 4.7 percent in 2017. The city of Leavenworth's crime rate increased by 4.7 percent in 2017. That is according to an annual report released last week by the Leavenworth Police Department. Last year, 2,348 part 1 crimes were reported to the LeavenworthÃÂ ...
Reno Gazette Journal
March 3, 2018
Lyon County's part-one crime rate in 2017 was the lowest it's been in five years, according to a report put out by the Lyon County Sheriff Office. Part-one crimes are serious offenses such as rape, homicide, robbery and arson. The county saw just 689 reports of part-one crime in 2017, down from 711 reportsÃÂ ...
The Friday Flyer
March 2, 2018
The FBI will publish final crime data for 2017 later this year. The Riverside County Sheriff's Department has released preliminary crime statistics for calendar year 2017, indicating an overall decrease of 2.2 percent in all reported FBI Part I crimes. Violent crime decreased by 8.8 percent in the Sheriff's areasÃÂ ...
GhanaWeb
March 2, 2018
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KU Today
March 2, 2018
LAWRENCE —The University of Kansas Lawrence campus saw a 13 percent decrease in crime in 2017, KU's Public Safety Office announced today with the annual release of its crime statistics. The Public Safety Office handled 671 criminal offenses during 2017, down from 770 in 2016. Theft is historicallyÃÂ ...
Elizabethtown Bladen Journal
March 2, 2018
ELIZABETHTOWN — The Elizabethtown Police Department's rate for solving cases is at 10-year high, so the Elizabethtown Town Council learned recently at its budget planning retreat. During 2017, the department solved 75 percent of its cases, something Police Chief Tony Parrish attributed to thoseÃÂ ...
Southern Pines Pilot
March 2, 2018
Pinehurst officials are looking at ways to address an apparent rise in crime in the village. Village Manager Jeff Sanborn shared data about local crime trends during the council's work session on Tuesday. Although the data shows an over-the-year surge in larcenies and drug crimes, Sanborn warned thatÃÂ ...
FiveThirtyEight
March 2, 2018
Five Senators Want To Know Why The FBI Hasn't Restored Missing Crime Data ... The annual Crime in the United States report, a collection of crime statistics gathered from over 18,000 law-enforcement agencies around the country, is considered the gold standard for tracking crime statistics in the UnitedÃÂ ...
ABC15 Arizona
February 28, 2018
Using the latest FBI crime data, ABC15 compared 15 different Valley cities by the number of violent crimes per 1,000 residents. Of the Valley cities looked at, Buckeye, Paradise Valley, and Gilbert took the top ranks for lowest violent crime rates, respectively. Phoenix, Casa Grande, and Tempe had theÃÂ ...
Star Local Media
February 28, 2018
Carrollton's State of the City reveals the city boasts a good financial standing, low crime rate and revitalizing community. Mayor Kevin Falconer discussed the city's latest standing at Tuesday night's Citizen's Evening and shared Carrollton's vision and goals for the future. “We want Carrollton to be theÃÂ ...
Capital Public Radio News
February 27, 2018
A report from the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department says the crime rate is down 24 percent between last year and 2013. This finding is part of a five-year “crime reporting analysis” released today by the department. Other findings include: Property crimes have decreased every year; Violent crimesÃÂ ...
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