FBI Reports More Than 7,400 Hate Crimes
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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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Federal and state officials  said they were rounding up scores of accused organized crime figures in the largest such sweep in recent memory.
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Governments should work harder to combat racism and other hate crimes which are on the rise globally but go largely unreported, advocacy group Human Rights First said in a report on Wednesday.
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The FBI said its "Operation Bot Roast" anti-botnet sweep has identified more than a million hijacked personal computers and resulted in the arrest of three men.
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Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine reported on Monday that 160 weapons and 160 laptop computers were missing at the FBI. The report followed a 2002 audit that had revealed that hundreds of other guns and computers were missing. An excerpt from the new report:
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Hate crimes have increased sharply over the last decade throughout Europe, according to a lengthy report by a US-based human rights group.
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Federal police have launched several raids in recent weeks, resulting in dozens of high-profile arrests.
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The FBI had more than 300 weapons and laptops lost or stolen in just under four years, and some of the computers contained sensitive or classified information, the U.S. Justice Department inspector general said on Monday in a highly critical report.
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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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Most of the Justice Department's major statistics on terrorism cases are highly inaccurate, and federal prosecutors routinely count cases involving drug trafficking, marriage fraud and other unrelated crimes as part of anti-terrorism efforts, according to an audit released yesterday.
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The FBI reported Monday that 132 police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2003, with guns and traffic accidents claiming the most lives.
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The FBI (website) has a backlog of hundreds of thousands of hours of untranslated audio recordings from terrorism and espionage investigations, despite large increases in money and personnel for translations since the 2001 terror attacks
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Figures show black people were seven times more likely to be stopped and searched last year than white people.
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The Justice Department announced Thursday that more than 150 people had been arrested, charged or convicted in the last three months in a wide-ranging sweep of criminal activity on the Internet.
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An internal FBI audit has found that the bureau potentially violated the law or agency rules more than 1,000 times while collecting data about domestic phone calls, e-mails and financial transactions in recent years, far more than was documented in a Justice Department report in March that ignited...
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Financial fraud rife, say criminologists More than three million online crimes were carried out last year, according to estimates published today. These included more than 200,000 cases of financial fraud, twice the official number of real-world robberies carried out during the same period.â¦
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The US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has started investigation into seven incidents in which laser beams were directed into plane cockpits since Christmas, media reports here said Thursday.