In Philadelphia, a 'disturbing' black murder rate
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With more than triple the US average of African-American homicides, the city is battling to protect kids from gunfire.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 13, 2004 - Authorities&#39; targeting of people because of their racial background or religious affiliation is a deep-rooted problem in the United States, with nearly 32 million people reporting
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A coroner is "desperately concerned" about the number of young men taking their own lives in his area.
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Obama's comparison of student deaths in one city and soldier deaths in another is bad math  -  but maybe good politics
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Philadelphia on Wednesday announced a crackdown on violent crime in an effort to curb one of the highest homicide rates among major U.S. cities.
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A "shocking" number of people are dying in British prisons and detention centers, with a person killed, committing suicide or dying in questionable circumstances almost every other day, a report said.
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PHILADELPHIA -- The incoming mayor of this city is proposing a sweeping plan of aggressive police tactics, including limiting the movement of people in high crime neighborhoods and directing officers to increase searches of people on the street for illegal weapons, all in a desperate effort to cu...
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Chicago in the '20s was a city in the toxic grip of a homicide epidemic.
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The vaccination rate for black children in the United States has caught up to that of youngsters in other racial groups.
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Chicago and New York are about to close out 2007 with the lowest number of homicides in more than 40 years, while cities such as Baltimore, Atlanta and Miami have seen killings go up because of what police say is a surge in guns and gang violence.
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As violent crime rates continue to drop, experts look for explanations -- and signs of whether the decline is permanent
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Police investigating the killings of two men in Belfast, now say their murders are linked.
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City officials Thursday acknowledged 2003 crime figures were way off. What looked like a drop in crime to historic lows turned out to be a 4 percent rise.
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A woman in New York City is more likely to be killed by an intimate partner than by a stranger, especially if she is young and foreign-born, a new study has found.
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Members of the legislative black caucus met with a National Rifle Association lobbyist for nearly an hour Monday in an effort to find a solution to the gun violence that has Philadelphia in its throes.
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It&#39;s violent. It&#39;s profane and politically incorrect. It&#39;s packed wall to wall with tough thugs doing terrible things.
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Before buying a house in Bethesda last month, Susan Fiorella tapped away on her keyboard. She researched schools. She checked crime statistics. She even solicited opinions about neighborhoods from an e-mail group for urban moms and dads.