Crime record backlog 'a failure'
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The Home Office suffered a "collective failure" over the records of Britons convicted abroad, a report says.
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The U.S. government's failure this week to win a conviction in a major case of alleged terrorism financing is a sign it may be targeting the wrong suspects and needs to rethink its prosecution strategy, legal experts say.
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A police campaign to crack down on pickpockets has come too late to help the capital's top crime fighter.
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Thousands of DNA profiles in unsolved criminal cases experience long delays before they are added to a national FBI database, jeopardizing their value in identifying suspected murderers, rapists and others, according to a Justice Department report Monday.
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WASHINGTON - Despite major increases in money and personnel, the FBI is still failing to translate many al-Qaida surveillance recordings in a timely manner and faces a giant backlog of untranslated material from terrorism and espionage investigations, a new Justice Department audit shows.    The report released Monday by Glenn A...
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Â· Government failed to follow up patients at riskÂ· Danger of wider infection a 'serious problem'
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Firearms evidence criticised in official review of Barry George conviction.
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Investigations stretching from Britain  to Australia are &quot;getting to the bottom&quot; of a cell behind  failed car bombings in London and Scotland, Prime Minister  Gordon Brown said on Friday.
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Lack of effort in investigating cases, along with promiscuity, key to collapse of rape trials
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New York City is approaching its lowest yearly murder rate in its recorded history with the final tally on track to number below 500, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said on Wednesday.
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Â· Watchdog asks officials to rethink use of statistics Â· Document obscures policy failures, say campaigners
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'Serious defects and delays' An internet portal to enable the public to report non-urgent crime has been closed following "serious defects and delays".â¦
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Anti-gang legislation and police crackdowns are failing so badly that they are strengthening the criminal organizations and making U.S. cities more dangerous, according to a report being released Wednesday.
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The F.B.I. improperly obtained thousands of records without prior judicial approval, a report said today.
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Thousands of criminals are filing for reduced sentences. Backlogged courts are asking lawyers to slow down their appeals. Judges say they're confused about what to do.
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Americans were robbed and victimized by gun violence at greater rates last year than the year before, even though overall violent and property crime reached a 32-year low, the Justice Department said Sunday.
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Nearly all investigations by Israeli   police into reports of violence by Jewish settlers against   Palestinians end in failure, a report by an Israeli human   rights group said on Monday.