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Three-million offensesagainst UK retailers in 2014 racked up direct costs of £603 million ($913 million U.S.) in 2014 – while the number of in-store thefts fell by four percent, the value per incident climbed 36 percent. 

Tokyo has been named the world's safest city, according to a 2015 Safe Cities Index by The Economist. 

All offenses in the violent crime category, including murder, rape, aggravated assault and robbery, showed decreases in the first six months of 2014 compared to the same period in 2013, the FBI report says. 

Nearly all campus police officers at public universities now carry guns, pepper spray and other weapons, according to a new Bureau of Justice Statistics report.

Although a majority of Americans remain satisfied with the nation's security from terrorism, this measure has dropped 10 percentage points since last year, from 69% to 59%, and is now back where it was in 2008.

Families of two of the 20 first-graders killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting are suing the town of Newtown, Conn., and its board of education, for inadequate school security. 

Barack Obama will push Congress to pass a law requiring companies that are victims of data breaches to notify affected consumers within 30 days.

The White House will invite allies to a Feb. 18 security summit in Washington to try and prevent violent extremism. 

A study of 314 small business owners in Cincinnati found that 40 percent of thefts in small businesses are of money.

The U.S. Senate voted Thursday to extend a federal terrorism program for six years. Lawmakers failed to extend the program before it expired last year, and it was quickly reauthorized in a 93 to 4 vote.