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Apr 14 2024
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2 neighborhoods in Detroit's ShotStopper program tie efforts to drop in crime
It's been less than a year since the ShotStopper initiative began in Detroit and already community groups say they are seeing results. FORCE Detroit has claimed the best results, with a 72% decrease in fatal and non-fatal shooting in its second quarter. The group works in the Warrendale and Franklin Park neighborhoods, also known as the Cody Rogue area, and cites the Detroit Police Department
Detroit NewsApr 11 2024
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Rutgers Islamic center vandalism investigated as ‘bias crime’
The Center for Islamic Life at Rutgers University (CILRU) was vandalized early Wednesday morning in an incident university police said they are investigating as a “bias crime.” The vandalism took place on the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr at the New Jersey university’s Muslim Chaplaincy house, according to CILRU’s statement posted on Facebook on Wednesday. CILRU posted photos of the
The HillApr 17 2024
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Residents near south Minneapolis homeless encampment decry crime and "chaos"
MINNEAPOLIS — For the second time in less than three years, residents near East 29th Street and Fifth Avenue South in Minneapolis are living next to an encampment. "We have so much anger behind the city allowing this to happen. We feel so wronged," said one neighbor. This homeowner says he did not want his face shown for fear of what would happen if the occupants of the encampment knew it was
CBS News (Online)Apr 16 2024
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Trump Goes From Court to Campaign, Blames Bragg For NYC Crime
Former President Donald Trump headed straight from the courtroom to the campaign trail in New York City on Tuesday, accusing the Democrat who is prosecuting him for an increase in violent crime in the Big Apple. "It's Alvin Bragg's fault," Trump said outside the Sanaa bodega in Harlem, referring to the Manhattan district attorney who has indicted him on 34 counts regarding allegations of
Newsmax (News)Apr 21 2024
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Madison County schools employee caught with student in traffic stop charged with sex crimes
A traffic stop Saturday in Madison County led to an investigation of a Madison County Schools employee who was then charged with sex crimes against a 15-year-old student who was in the car with her. Deputies conducted a traffic stop of Makayla Ann Anderton, 26, on Highway 72 and Shields Road, on Saturday at about 11:45 p.m., the Madison County Sheriff’s Office said. The minor, a student in
AL.comApr 18 2024
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A bodega, claims about crime: How Trump brought his campaign to NY
• Trump called his trial 'rigged' and criticized Judge Juan Merchan and Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. • Bragg has promoting a falling crime rate since he was elected in 2021. Merchan has refused to withdraw from the trial. Amid jury selection adjourned in his New York hush money trial, Donald Trump shopped at a Harlem bodega for campaign support and political outrage over crime
"USA Today" ContributorApr 15 2024
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Bodies of preacher’s wife and pal ID’d, victims of ‘absolutely brutal crime’
The bodies of two missing Kansas moms have been found, and both women were murdered in an “absolutely brutal crime,” Oklahoma authorities said Monday. The remains of Veronica Butler, 27, and Jillian Kelley, 39, both from Hugoton, were discovered Sunday in a “very rural area” near where their abandoned blood-soaked vehicle was found in Texas County, Okla., on March 30, according to information
New York Post (News)Apr 18 2024
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Crime on college campuses reverts to pre-pandemic levels as students fear for safety
At least three female Arizona State University students were allegedly sexually assaulted by a "random stranger" in public areas of the Tempe campus in a 30-minute span.It was described as "an isolated incident" on April 11 by the university in a statement to Fox News Digital, but it's an isolated incident for ASU, not the country, where a national spike in on-campus crimes has reverted to pre
Fox News (Online News)Mar 22 2024
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Virginia city implements a new crime-fighting strategy. Violent crime dropped by 33%.
Yahoo NewsApr 19 2024
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11% of felony defendants charged with new crime on pre-trial release, data shows
COOK COUNTY, Ill. — New numbers from the chief judge of the Cook County court system seek to help answer the question: Has releasing more defendants awaiting trial made us less safe? Data show that 10,353 felony defendants have been released pre-trial since new provisions of the SAFE-T Act took effect in September of 2023. Of those, 89% were not charged with new crimes. However, 10% of
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