FBI says crime down in first half of 2007
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Crime in the United States fell slightly in the first six months of 2007, the FBI reported in a preliminary analysis on Monday that could indicate a reversal of the increases of recent years.
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Big-city murders rose sharply in 2006 as violent crime increased nationally for the second straight year, the FBI reported Monday. Homicides committed in small towns and mid-size cities took a dramatic downswing &#151; resulting in an overall 0.3 percent increase in the murder rate across the country, the new preliminary data show.
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Racial prejudice, most often directed at black people, was behind more than half of the nation's 7,400 reported hate crime incidents in 2003, the FBI said Monday.
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Gun violence rose sharply in the District in 2007, with the number of homicides jumping 7 percent after several years of decline.
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The FBI lost at least 10 laptop computers containing classified information during a four-year period ending in 2005, the Justice Department's inspector general has found.
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Violent and property crime rates in  the United States remained at their lowest levels in 30 years  during 2003, the U.S. Department of Justice said on Sunday.
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The number of violent crimes in the United States rose for a second straight year in 2006, marking the first sustained increase in homicides, robberies and other serious offenses since the early 1990s, according to an  FBI report to be released Monday.
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The daily volume of Internet attacks dropped off in the first half of this year, and the rate at which new vulnerabilities are being reported appears to have hit a plateau, according to Symantec Corp.
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NEW YORK  - Crime rates might be dropping nationwide, but you wouldn't know from the latest wave of vigilante-themed films.
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The economy grew at a 0.7 percent annual pace in the first three months of this year, the weakest in more than four years but slightly better than previously estimated, data showed  on Thursday.
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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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WASHINGTON - The nation's crime rate last year held steady at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Department reported Sunday.    The study was the latest contribution to a decade-long trend in which violent crime as measured by victim surveys has fallen by 55 percent and property crime by 49 percent...
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OTTAWA (CP) - The national homicide rate dropped to its lowest level in more than 30 years last year, says Statistics Canada.
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Records show the agency has taken a less aggressive approach toward policing drugs in the past four years.
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Killings at U.S. schools have not risen in recent years, despite some highly publicized crimes, and are far lower than in the early 1990s, U.S. officials said on Thursday.
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The US economy grew at a pace of 0.6% in the first quarter of 2007, its weakest rate in more than four years.
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Nearly 7,500 hate crimes, including  14 murders based on sexual orientation, race or ethnicity, were  reported in the United States last year, the FBI said on  Monday.