A Maine proposal to more swiftly compensate victims of property crimes has passed a key test in the Senate. The Senate signed off Tuesday on a proposal to create a compensation fund for victims of the crimes. The sponsor, Democratic …
A fingerprint examiner for the Travis County sheriff’s office in Texas will devote the next six months to clearing a backlog of more than 600 property crime cases that piled up over the past 17 months. Most of the cases …
The estimated number of violent crimes in the nation decreased 4.4 percent in 2013 when compared with 2012 data, according to the latest FBI figures. Property crimes decreased 4.1 percent, marking the eleventh straight year the collective estimates for these …
Police in Dallas have issued 37,000 fewer traffic tickets as the force puts more resources toward fighting property crimes and violent offenses. Officers wrote more than 211,800 tickets in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, compared with some 248,800 in …
The FBI estimates that in 2012, the number of violent crimes increased 0.7 percent while property crimes decreased 0.9 percent, the tenth straight year of declines for these offenses, collectively. The 2012 statistics show that the estimated rate of violent …
The nation experienced a 1.2 percent increase in the number of violent crimes and a 0.8 percent decline in the number of property crimes in 2012 when compared with data from 2011, the FBI said. Violent crime increased in three …
Violent crime is down 6.2 percent and property crimes have decreased 2.8 percent in the U.S., according to the latest government statistics. Also, arson offenses, which are tracked separately from other property crimes, is down 14.6 percent nationwide. The Federal …
