Articles Tagged with ''crime rates''

The nation's estimated rate of both violent and property crime shot up last year after several years of decline.

New York police have conducted more than 650,000 stop-and-frisks, but 84 percent of them are on black or Hispanic people – a statistic that has civil rights groups calling foul.

Although crime is at its lowest point in 30 years, arrests have only slightly declined, and police spending has increased by 445 percent.

The year 2011 was another banner year for employee theft in the United States, experiencing only a slight drop in frequency from the pace set in 2010, says a new report.

Unusual if not unheard of, the third largest U.S. city has placed a decade of crime stats on the Web and promises to update the database every day.

When security video was placed in public places, crime decreased at varying degrees. But the most impact was when there are many cameras that are monitored live by the city or law enforcement.