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US Violent Crime Fell 6% Last Year, Extending a 4-Year Decline
Despite economic turmoil in the country, violent crime in the United States declined 6.5% last year, according to statistics released by the FBI today....
Canada’s Crime Rate Falls to Lowest in 40 Years
Canada's crime rate fell to its lowest in almost 40 years, Statistics Canada reported on Thursday, extending a positive two-decade trend.
Crime last year dropped...
A Victim of 9/11 Hate Crime Now Fights for His Attacker’s Life
Rais Bhuiyan, shot in the face by Mark Stroman in a shooting rampage motivated by the 9/11 attacks, is now leading the effort to...
Organized Crime Groups in Japan Supply Truckloads of Relief to Disaster Victims
Organized crime networks have been sending tons of relief goods in trucks from the Tokyo and Kobe regions to deliver food, water, blankets and...
New FBI Data Shows Crime Rate Continues to Decline Across US
Violent crime and property crime rates continued to fall across the US, according to preliminary crime statistics from the Justice Department. Reports of violent...
Classical Music Cuts Crime in New Zealand City
Classical music piped through speakers has dramatically reduced crime rates in the center of New Zealand's second largest city, retailers in Wellington...
Massive City Park Revitalized in Crime Area of Philadelphia
A Philadelphia man is leading the charge to reclaim an 86-acre city park that had become overgrown with weeds and trash while becoming a...
US Property Crime Falls to 20-year Low, New Technology Helps
The FBI confirmed this month that, despite the sour economy, violent crime dropped for the third straight year in 2009, while property offenses declined...
Cyber Crime Down 50 percent in 2009
A cybercrime report released in July 2010 revealed a 50 percent drop in the number of attacks on retail stores in 2009, with 143...
Crime Falls to Lowest Since 1981 in England, Wales
The level of crime in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest since records began in 1981, figures showed on Thursday. The annual...
Milkman Honored by Queen at Buckingham Palace for Lifetime of Crime-busting
Tony Fowler, a milkman with a daily route that takes him 100 miles through 25 towns in Leicestershire, is being hailed a hero by...
Crime Down For 3rd Straight Year, Even During Recession
You would think the lack of jobs would mean more burglaries or strong-arm robberies as some people turned to crime to get money. But...
Ex-Gang Members Take Bang Out Of L.A. Crime
From New York to Los Angeles, murders and other violent crimes are at a 50-year low. In Los Angeles, that's partly because police and...
Bad Boy Actor Nick Cage Steps into Real-Life Good Cop Role for UN Crime Office
Acclaimed actor and filmmaker Nicolas Cage, whose action roles have included both a contract killer and a federal anti-terrorist agent, stepped into the...
New York City Crime Plummets Mystifying Criminologists
Crime in New York City is going down -- way down. The city is heading toward its lowest number of murders in almost...
U.S. Crime Rates Down in 2008
The FBI estimates the number of violent crimes in the U.S. declined for the second year in a row, according to figures released...
Crime is Plummeting Across N. America, Yet No One Knows Why
Four years after the "Summer of the Gun", Toronto police Chief Bill Blair is celebrating a nearly 30 percent overall drop in crime....
Planting Flowers Helps Stamp Out City Crime
When a Tokyo neighborhood watch group found that there were fewer burglaries in buildings on flower-lined streets, one city official in decided to...
Glimmer of Hope in Fight Against London Gang Crime
As knife crime and gang culture scar the streets of England, one program is offering a glimmer of hope.
The X-it youth project has already...
Crime in US Drops Significantly, Despite Economic Downturn
From Washington to Oregon, to Vermont, states across the country are tallying lower crime rates over the past few years. Even in 2009,...