NY police credit rookies for declining murder rate
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A 5-year-old program that sends rookie police officers to crime hot spots in New York City has helped the city achieve the lowest murder rate in 45 years and will be doubled in size in 2008, police officials say.
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Anti-terror funding to New York and Washington was cut in favor of protecting suburban areas, Congressional investigators say
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Streeters are getting a little less than they did in the past.
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New York police have developed a pre-emptive strike policy, cutting off demonstrations before they grow large.
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Police departments around the country are relaxing age and fitness standards, forgiving minor criminal convictions and easing other requirements to relieve shortages in their ranks and find officers who are wiser, more worldly and cooler-headed in a crisis.
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Violent crime dropped 3 percent last year even as the number of murders rose, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said Monday in a report that had immediate reverberations in the presidential campaign.
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Hartford officials are pointing to steadily decreasing crime statistics and an overhauled police department in an attempt to discredit a national survey ranking Hartford the country&#39;s seventh-dangerous city.
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The two men charged in a series of random shootings had flagged down police officers arriving at the site of one of the attacks, authorities said Friday.
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The smoking rate among New York Cityâs teenagers is now far lower than among teenagers nationwide, due mainly to high taxes and curbs on public smoking, officials said.
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NEW YORK -- Madison Square Garden was taken over by New York police and their families, all there for the graduation ceremony of 1,097 new officers. A rousing video flashed images of police responding to the Sept. 11 attacks. It was a scene tailor-made for Rudolph W. Giuliani, the former mayor who...
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In a city that prides itself on a drastic reduction in homicides since 1990, a triple homicide has driven home the sudden rise in killings.
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Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities in a bloodstained corridor along the East Coast are seeing a surge in killings, and one of the most provocative explanations offered by criminal-justice experts is this: not enough new immigrants.
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Murders in the United States dropped by nearly 6 percent in the first half of the year after rising for four straight years, the FBI reported Monday. Almost all other crimes declined, too.
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New York City police have found a public relations boost in a two-wheeled scooter, welcome relief to a department criticized for suspected racism and excessive force.
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Convicted murderers are being sentenced to death half as often as they were five years ago, and the population of death row is declining as a result, an anti-capital punishment information organization reported Tuesday.
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A new federal report shows that non-fatal violence dropped dramatically between 1992 and 2002.
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Gang killings in the city dropped sharply last year after local, state and federal agencies worked together to crack down on street violence