On streets of Philadelphia, crime is back
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On a cold January evening in southwest Philadelphia, a police patrol responds to the latest shooting in a neighborhood that is deadly even by the standards of America's most dangerous big city.
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In Atlanta, there has been a concerted effort to refresh the cityÂs memory of a deadly race riot that was forgotten almost as soon as it ended.
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There is a newfound willingness to confront the five nights of gunfire, looting and flames driven by race-tinged rage that disemboweled the cityâs midsection in 1967.
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The recovery of New Orleans slowly  drags on two years after Hurricane Katrina but one thing back  in full swing since the killer storm is crime, particularly  murders.
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The crime rate in Philadelphia may be worse than people thought. The city today said it is working with University of Pennsylvania criminologist Richard Berk to develop software that can forecast who might commit murder.
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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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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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Gang killings in the city dropped sharply last year after local, state and federal agencies worked together to crack down on street violence
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Murder rates for 2004 decline in many cities, but gang violence leads to some exceptions.
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By Walter F. Naedele, The Philadelphia Inquirer  Sep. 21--For the second time this month, the Bensalem Police Department has announced that it will make arrests based on undercover work on the Internet.
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BELFAST, Dec. 24 -- Police staged raids Friday in two Irish Republican Army strongholds of Belfast in search of the $42.5 million stolen this week from a bank's underground vault.
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Penn Station, an armed encampment all week, was bustling again with commuters. Regulars stood in line at their bagel-and-coffee shops. Police vanished from city blocks where they had been deployed by the dozen.
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New figures show violent crime rising in the third quarter of last year and an increase in firearms offences.
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Tony Blair sought to turn the political spotlight on low-level crime yesterday after returning from his month-long summer break.
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Federal prosecutors announced more charges on Wednesday in a Philadelphia corruption scandal whose defendants include the former city treasurer, a prominent supporter
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The Pittsburgh police say thefts of copper tubing from abandoned homes or homes under construction have surged in the last year.
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Last year the streets in parts of the old city dropped by nine feet.