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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mail Tribune
February 25, 2018
A 2017 audit of the Jackson County Jail in downtown Medford concluded it was too small and its design was outdated. [Mail Tribune / Andy Atkinson]. Hide caption. Female inmates rest in the Jackson County Jail, which is so overcrowded with women that they're released early more often than men.
WFTV Orlando
February 20, 2018
Celebration, the master-planned community founded in Osceola County, Florida, had a small town population: 7,427 people in about 11 square miles in the 2010 Census. The Celebration, Florida crime rate is fairly typical for a place with a small town vibe, even one that's just 21 years old and featuresÃÂ ...
The San Diego Union-Tribune
February 5, 2018
San Diego's crime rate last year was the lowest it has been in nearly a half century — an achievement born in part from close ties between police and ... Zimmerman said the department has harnessed crime data and technology, like ShotSpotter, a gunshot detection system, to send officers to areas whereÃÂ ...
CBS Minnesota / WCCO
December 31, 1999
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Minneapolis police say crime is down overall in the city's 1st Precinct, which covers downtown. There have been no homicides so far this year, which is down from the two murders by this time last year. downtown minneapolis night life Minneapolis Police: Downtown Crime RateÃÂ ...
kwwl.com
December 31, 1999
A new article puts Dubuque among the top 10 in the nation when it comes to an increase in the violent crime rate. According to the financial news website 24/7 Wall Street, Dubuque has seen one of the largest increases in violent crime of any city. It said the city has seen the 6th largest increase, a spike ofÃÂ ...
Chico Enterprise-Record
December 31, 1999
The city of Chico's crime rate increased 10 percent in 2017 compared with 2016. Violent crime rose 42 ... But as for a correlation between the state laws and the city's crime rate, O'Brien said he would like to see more research on the topic before saying, “Yes, I know for a fact that's the case.” “I suspect thatÃÂ ...
KXAN.com
December 31, 1999
AUSTIN (KXAN) — At South by Southwest EDU on Tuesday, leaders in the military, law enforcement, business and education discussed ways to better prepare young adults, starting with Pre-K education. According to a 2016 Citizen Readiness Index Report compiled by the nonprofit Council for a StrongÃÂ ...
Ventura County Star
December 31, 1999
Dave Wareham, a 32-year veteran of the Ventura County Sheriff's Office who has served as Fillmore's chief since 2014. The city of Fillmore contracts with the sheriff's office for police services, as do the cities of Thousand Oaks, Moorpark, Camarillo and Ojai. Tennessen said he hopes to keep the crime rateÃÂ ...
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