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San Francisco Chronicle
Maldonado trips as he gins up crime issue
Sacramento Bee
But while he risks becoming known as a perennial candidate, Maldonado is raising an issue that is giving Brown pause – crime. It's one that has served Republicans well in the past and has been used more than once against Brown. Republican consultants ...
California Realignment Of Inmates Blamed For Increase In Crime - Huffington PostHuffington Post

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Social Media Provides New Ammunition In Battle Against Crime
10TV
The block watch coordinator said that friends of the Short North Block Watch on Facebook are constantly sharing information about crimes or possible criminals lurking in the neighborhood. Someone recently posted a picture of a man standing on a porch ...

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Wednesday TV Highlights: 'CSI: Crime Scene Investigation' on CBS
Los Angeles Times
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation A reporter (James Callis) follows Russell (Ted Danson) and the team as they probe a series of murders. Annabella Sciorra and Eric Roberts also guest star and the band Black Sabbath performs in the season finale. 10 p.m. ...

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Amateur crime scene sleuths earn their way to national competition
KOMO News
A group of high school seniors eager to become crime scene investigators have a shot at becoming the best in the nation at gathering evidence, but the students are going to need some help to make that happen. Students at Thomas Jefferson High School's ...

New York Times
As Thieves Troll Spanish Farmland, Villagers Begin Patrols
New York Times
Albelda is hardly the only farming village where people are worried about rising crime. Police officials say they have seen a steady rise in the crime rate in rural areas since 2009. Just about everything is a target. Three hundred onions one night. A ...

Art imitating life: 'Crime Scene' to be staged at Chicago parks this summer
Chicago Sun-Times
“Let Hope Rise” is an update to the original play, “Crime Scene: A Chicago Anthology” shown at Collaboraction's Wicker Park headquarters through early March. Writer and director Anthony Moseley said the new version of the play is not only meant to ...

NewsNet5.com
Smartphone app to report crime called iWatch available for Cuyahoga County ...
NewsNet5.com
Now Cuyahoga County officials said it is easier than ever to report crime. On Tuesday, Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald flanked by police chiefs from across the county introduced a new app for smartphones. It is called iWatch Northeast Ohio.

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Crime Stoppers seeks help in shooting of man in wheelchair - Quad-City Times
Quad City Times
MAQUOKETA, Iowa — A Maquoketa man who was shot and wounded by an alleged intruder last month is being featured by the Crime Stoppers of Jackson County in a plea for help. Maquoketa Police Chief Brad Koranda is asking for the public's help through ...

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Assembly passes transgender hate crime bill
San Francisco Chronicle
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada lawmakers are making a strong statement that crimes motivated by hatred of someone being a transgender person will not be tolerated in the Silver State. The Assembly passed SB139 by a 30-11 margin Tuesday. The bill ...

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Behind bars at last?
The Economist (blog)
THE arrest of Naser Kelmendi (pictured above), one of the most notorious gangsters in the Balkans, has unleashed a stream of speculation in the region's press about who is connected to whom in the seamy underworld of Balkan crime and politics. Reputed ...

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New report by Internet Crime Complaint Center shows victims lost an average of ...
Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release)
New report by Internet Crime Complaint Center shows victims lost an average of $4,600 in 2012. Internet Crime 2012. IC3 Releases Annual Report. 05/14/13. IC3 logo The Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, had received dozens of complaints about a ...

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IC3 2012 Internet Crime Report Released
Federal Bureau of Investigation (press release)
Today the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the 2012 Internet Crime Report—a summary of reported fraudulent activity, including data and statistics. In 2012, the IC3 received and processed 289,874 complaints, averaging more than 24,000 ...
Online crime clearinghouse received nearly 290K complaints in 2012SC Magazine

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Napolitano says ATM heist sign of cyber crime scope
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A global ATM heist targeting two Middle Eastern banks that came to light last week is an example of how easily financial crimes can be committed and coordinated in cyberspace, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano ...

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Chancellor not aware ECSU crime not investigated
WRAL.com
ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — The chancellor of Elizabeth City State University says his administration was not aware that more than 100 campus crimes over six years were not investigated. The Daily Advance of Elizabeth City reported (http://bit.ly/10nQkQB ...
126 crime reports not checked at Elizabeth City StateThe Virginian-Pilot
Officials: 125 crime reports at ECSU may not have been investigated properlywtkr.com

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Race possible motive in downtown assault; hate crime was mulled
Springfield News-Leader
Prosecutors considered whether the offense should be charged under the hate crime statute but Assistant Prosecutor Todd Myers said his office concluded that first-degree assault was more appropriate. A hate crime enhancement does not apply to Class A ...

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Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office West Bank crime report, May 13
NOLA.com
This information reflects initial calls for service reported by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office for the west bank of Jefferson Parish. Locations are approximate due to automated location methods and address inconsistencies, the Sheriff's Office ...

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KMOV.com
Man charged in sex crime at Frank Holten State Park
STLtoday.com
A man has been charged with a sex crime for an incident that happened Saturday in Frank Holten State Park. Dorian M. McGlown, 26, was charged Monday with aggravated criminal sexual abuse, criminal sexual abuse and unlawful restraint. Bail is set at ...
Centreville man charged with sexual assaultBelleville News Democrat

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Crime Stopper tip leads to arrest in fatal Kershaw Co. hit-and-run
The State
KERSHAW COUNTY, SC — A tip that came in on the Crime Stoppers hot line has led to an arrest in the March 1 running down and killing of an Elgin man, the SC Highway Patrol announced Tuesday. The patrol charged Joselyn Bonilla, 21, Columbia, with ...

'Angel Baby' author prefers grime to crime
CNN
(CNN) -- Critics and a growing number of fans call Richard Lange an up-and-coming name in crime fiction, but don't tell him that. "I don't even call myself a crime writer," Lange recently said. "I'll take the title but I would call myself more of a ...

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FRANCE 24
Venezuela Calls In Military To Fight Crime In Streets
Fox News Latino
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday launched a plan to fight crime that, in its first phase, will involve 3,000 soldiers in police operations in crime-ridden neighborhoods in Caracas. "The most important problem that our society has to ...
Venezuela's Maduro sends military to fight crime in Caracas streetsReuters
Troops deployed to subdue Venezuela crimeFRANCE 24

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