Homicides soared in New Orleans in 2007
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The bloodiest city in the country in 2006, reeling from crime in its struggle to recover from Hurricane Katrina, got even worse in 2007.
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The second half of 2007 saw violence drop dramatically in Iraq, but the progress came at a high price: The year was the deadliest for the U.S. military since the 2003 invasion, with 899 troops killed.
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New Orleans readies for its second Mardi Gras since Hurricane Katrina, as two people die in violence.
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A recent rise in violent crime accelerated in the first half of 2006, providing the clearest sign yet that the nation is in the midst of a prolonged increase in murder, assaults and other violent offenses, the FBI reported today.
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Crime dipped slightly for the first half of 2007, the FBI reported Monday, signaling a stop to a 2-year increase in violence nationwide.
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Death rates in New Orleans rose nearly 50 percent as the city began its recovery from Hurricane Katrina, in part because of storm-related damage to its public health facilities, researchers said on Thursday.
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Violent crime in the United States rose more than previously believed in 2006, continuing the most significant increase in more than a decade, according to an FBI report released yesterday.
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Police say excessive drinking is a factor in a rise in the number of rapes and sexual assaults over the last year.
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Two brothers accused in a quadruple shooting were arrested as this city struggles to rein in crime after Hurricane Katrina, police said Friday.
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Homicide figures released by the Scottish Government reveal a rise in deaths in the last year.
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The number of people charged with racially aggravated offences rose by 28% last year, figures show.
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Serious crime rose by 8.3 percent in Santa Clarita last year, while it decreased in Los Angeles and nationwide, according to statistics released Monday by the FBI.
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Homicide figures released by the Scottish Government reveal a rise of 27% in the last year.
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A record 7 million people &#151; or one in every 32 American adults &#151; were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year, according to the Justice Department. Of those, 2,193,798 were in prison or jail, an increase of 2.7 percent over the previous year.
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A record 7 million people -- one in every 32 U.S. adults -- were behind bars, on probation or on parole by the end of last year,  a Justice Department report released yesterday shows.
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Over 7,400 hate crime incidents occurred nationwide last year, more than half of them motivated by racial prejudice most often against black people, the FBI reported Monday.
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Big cities were less deadly places to live in 2004 as murder rates declined in several urban areas, including New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C., according to a survey by The Associated Press.