Boston police turn to text messages to fight crime
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The Boston Police Department has started program that allows cell phone users send anonymous crime tips via text messages to the city's Crime Stoppers anonymous tip line.
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Boston police are doubling and, on some shifts, tripling patrols of the city's Newbury Street shopping district in anticipation of a holiday-season spike in shoplifting and robberies.
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For protesters navigating Manhattan during the Republican National Convention, text-message broadcasting services like this, sent to their cell phones, provided an up-to-the-minute guide to the action on the streets.
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Gov. Mitt Romney said he has become "less concerned, not more concerned" about a potential terrorist threat against the city of Boston. The FBI, meanwhile, is exploring possible theories for the reports &#151; including a possible revenge motive.
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Police name a man they want to speak to about 30 letter bombs which have been to different UK addresses.
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The city's embattled police chief, acknowledging that police alone cannot quell a run of deadly violence, has called on 10,000 black men to patrol the streets to reduce crime.
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Unofficial protests, often started by text messages, are part of middle class battle against officials.
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Steamy text messages sent to his paramour turn up the heat on embattled Mayor Kilpatrick.
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Write to Santa Prime Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown has asked the police to come up with a wish list of gadgets they can use to combat crime.â¦
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Malaysian police have set up a special police task force to investigate mobile telephone text messages amid fears they could incite racial violence, the Star newspaper reported Friday.
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By KEN MAGUIRE BOSTON - More than 10 blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon.
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Police were investigating an apparent security hoax in Boston on Wednesday involving at least five suspicious devices in separate locations across the city which were later found to be fake bombs.
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Millions of fingers scurrying over mobile electronic devices probably paused this week as news emerged of a trove of text messages containing flirty and sexually explicit chat between Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a top aide.
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Detroit's mayor issues a televised plea for forgiveness over explicit text messages he allegedly sent to a top aide.
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Techniques designed to make suspects incriminate themselves through calls or texts
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TEXT message language will be used in a new Government campaign to tackle mobile phone theft.   The Home Office is asking "r u getting the msg?" in a pounds 500,000 campaign to tell youngsters that stolen handsets will be blocked from all networks within 48 hours of being reported lost.
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T-Mobile's Sidekick line of cellphones has become a popular item among would-be thieves. And not everyone is happy about the police tactics being used to combat this crime surge.