Chicago’s murder rate is higher than some other big cities, but according to Chicago Police Supt. Jody Weis, the last time it was this low in the city, Mayor Daley’s father was mayor and Lyndon Johnson was president.
A letter was purportedly signed by the La Familia drug cartel announcing a one-month truce circulated Sunday in the western state of Michoacan, Mexico.
According to the FBI's Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June, 2010, the nation saw a 6.2 percent decrease in the number of reported violent crimes and a 2.8 percent decrease in the number of reported property crimes compared to data for the same time frame during 2009.
Nearly 730,000 nonfatal violent crimes and about 1.8 million property crimes were experienced by people age 12 or older with a disability in 2008, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced. The violent crimes against people with disabilities included 40,000 rapes or sexual assaults, 116,000 robberies, 115,000 aggravated assaults and nearly 459,000 simple assaults.
Generally speaking, the dictionary defines self policing as a form of self-regulation in which you monitor your own adherence to legal, ethical, or safety standards instead of utilizing a government entity to monitor and enforce those standards. As you read this definition, what stands out as the single most important approach in reducing our society’s crime rate?