FBI Says Violent Crime down in Florida
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The FBI says violent crime was down by a fraction in Florida last year compared to 2002. Nationally, every type of violent crime fell last year with one notable exception: Murders were up for the fourth straight year.
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New York was the safest of the nation's 10 largest cities in 2005, with about one crime reported for every 37 residents, according to an Associated Press analysis of FBI statistics.
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FBI agents were justified in shooting to death a Puerto Rican militant in a September 2005 raid, federal investigators said Wednesday in a report that was dismissed by pro-independence activists as a cover-up.
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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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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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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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Philadelphia on Wednesday announced a crackdown on violent crime in an effort to curb one of the highest homicide rates among major U.S. cities.
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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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Violent crime against students in schools fell by 50 percent between 1992 and 2002, with young people more often targeted for violence away from school.
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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.
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MIAMI -- Bad news for residents Miami. Your city is among the 25 most dangerous in the country. Morgan Quitno Corporation released its annual city crime rankings today.
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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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By Andrei Khalip RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil  - Rio de Janeiroauthorities on Thursday played down a human rights group reportwhich claimed police violence in the Brazilian city was rife,saying the number of people killed by police was decreasing.
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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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The number of violent crimes reported nationwide appears to have fallen modestly in the first half of 2007, signaling the first notable decline in violence in two years, the FBI said yesterday.
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By Elizabeth Gibson, The Miami Herald  Sep. 22--The Broward Sheriff's Office brought back smooth country accents to KISS Country by shutting down a radio station that had been broadcasting rap on the station's frequency.
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More murders and robberies in 2006 sent U.S. violent crimes higher for the second straight year, the FBI said on Monday, with the increase blamed on gangs, youth violence, gun crimes and fewer police on beats.