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All U.N. member states should make piracy a crime as the problem surges in Somalia, the Security Council said.

According to the 2011 National Gang Threat Assessment released by the National Gang Intelligence Center (NGIC), approximately 1.4 million gang members belonging to more than 33,000 gangs were criminally active in the U.S. as of April, 2011.

The Virginia Port Authority plans to cut 45 of its 71 sworn police officers by next June and replace them with contract security guards in an effort to save money.

The former employees of an abandoned aluminum manufacturing plant fear their personal files may be swiped by scrap scavengers.

Shoplifting, employee or supplier fraud, organized retail crime and administrative errors cost the retail industry $119 billion in 2011 or 1.45% of sales.

London Olympic organizers say the technology systems for next year's games have tested well and can withstand the danger of cyber attacks.

Union County Crime Stoppers launched its Campus Crime Stoppers program in all county middle and high schools at the beginning of the 2011-12 school year.

Hundreds of New York nonprofit groups have gotten a slice of nearly $2 billion in national Homeland Security grants this year by claiming they face a "high risk" of a terror attack.

Athletes participating in the Pan Am games in Mexico this month will be guarded by unmanned drones, infrared-equipped Black Hawk helicopters, hundreds of surveillance cameras and more than 11,000 police officers.

Access to buildings, identification, cafeteria/food courts, library, bookstore purchases, printing and vending, in that order, are the leading applications for which American college students use their school-issued cards, says a study on the subject.