No longer the actions of lone wolf criminals, mail theft is now part of a larger criminal operation run by organizations targeting mail carriers for keys to collection boxes throughout a community.
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The city’s triumphs in sports coincided with a drop in crime. Criminologists have long identified a link between sports and public safety, writes Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Daniel P:eareson.
A new report urges police to begin preparing as soon as possible for investigations and enforcement inside the metaverse. “Criminals will also use these new opportunities,” said Håkan Wall, National Operations Department Commissioner of the Swedish Police Authority.
Since 2016, the state’s overall crime rate has fallen over 12.6 percent and the prison population dropped about 21.1 percent thanks, in part, to criminal justice reforms. However, it’s still higher than national average.
Although carjackings continue to be a terrifying staple of local news reports, the “rate of nonfatal victimization” has declined dramatically between 1995 and 2021—and victims are more likely not to be affluent, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Tio Hardiman, president of Violence Interrupters, wants officials to start tackling the issue through education, starting with the distribution of 100,000 flyers with a simple message: “It’s not worth killing someone over a minor traffic dispute.”
New research released by the Council on Criminal Justice shows that the gap between Black and white state imprisonment rates has narrowed significantly over the last two decades, with drug crimes driving the decrease.
Hyundais and Kias without immobilizer technology had a higher vehicle theft claim rate per 1,000 insured vehicle years than the rest of the industry combined, according to a report from the Highway Loss Data Institute.
In the first six months of NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ tenure, the city saw a 25 percent increase in arrests for low-level offenses, often called “quality of life” crimes, the first increase in a decade.
A new analysis shows that high-profile U.S. public shootings are only part of the larger problem of mass killings resulting from deaths by guns, knives, fires, vehicles and other weapons in public and in private.