Articles Tagged with ''crime rates''

Four of the top 10 most dangerous neighborhoods are located in Detroit, where there is a high number of vacant residences and empty lots.

An ongoing investigation into the private garbage-hauling industry lead to the arrests of dozens of alleged mob family affiliates. 

The first six months of 2012 showed a 1.9 percent increase in violent crime, and a 1.5 percent increase in property crime. 

Mexico City authorities have destroyed thousands of toy guns in an effort to fight real crimes committed with fake weapons.

New reports from the FBI show a 6 percent decrease in hate crime in 2011, but not all states are participating in the data collection effort. 

With a couple of months still left to go in the year, Chicago has already managed to tie the 2011 mark for homicides.

Some Detroit neighborhoods are doing their part to keep crime under control.

For the first time since 2008 or so when crime decreased yearly, U.S. residents age 12 or older experienced an estimated 5.8 million violent victimizations and 17.1 million property victimizations, in both cases a significant jump, based on data from the annual National Crime Victimization Survey.

Research by a University of California, Riverside criminologist has found that the 3-strikes law has done nothing to reduce the crime rate.