Link: Indy Crime Watchers Summary | Indianapolis Star | indystar.com
Indy Crime Watchers is an interactive database that is updated monthly. The purpose is to allow residents or incoming residents of Marion County learn about crime in specific areas.
This week the FBI released data showing that violent crime in the United States fell 6.4 percent in the first half of this year compared to the same time period in 2010. The data also indicated a 3.7 percent drop in property crime.
The FBI statistics undermine a favorite argument of...
I received an assignment in my Criminal Justice class,
It is a three page paper titled, "my solution to crime in America."
Now, as unrealistic as the paper sounds, i am supposed to come up with five ideas (solutions) to stop crime....
Crime Defined as , "an action or an instance of negligence...
Not sure which forum this fits in...
Fear of Crime: Crime has plummeted over the last 20 years. Why aren't we less scared? - By Christopher Beam - Slate Magazine
Look at how much crime rates have decreased, and how many gun RIGHTS laws have grown in that time period, and try to argue legal...
With the drastic increase in firearms involved violent crimes, I was just wondering if the rate of crime and resulting fatality is higher in U.S as compared to say..uh.. United Kingdom or Japan, where the firearm possession is not legalized for general public.
If anyone has access to the...
Check it out... a guy in Warsaw woke up to the sound of his truck being stolen, so he got in the other truck and chased the guy!
Truck theft victim helps spoil getaway | The Journal Gazette | Fort Wayne, IN
Ya know, one thing I've kinda wondered about...
Subsection (c) is clearly...
Move over, unlucky Iceland. New Zealand is now the safest country in the world | World news | The Guardian
"The United States has clawed its way up six places to 83rd – still weighed down by two foreign wars, a high prison population and the general availability of guns. Its slight rise was...
I listen to WLS 890AM in the office and the feckless Jody Weis was on a news report.
The Superintendent of Chicago Police Department, Jody Weis, just said that murders committed inside buildings should not be counted in the Chicago murder rate as those are murders that CPD cannot be expected...
I just saw this on the news. It is a reminder that you always need to be prepared - even carrying around the house when your friends and family think you're crazy for doing so.
Source: Couple Robbed By Two Men, While They Are Home
So why does Obama want to fund more cops on the streets? He provided almost a billion dollars in the "stimulus" for more cops, despite the fact that crime is at an all time low. When factories don't have serious demand they cut work force numbers to save money and make the company stronger. With...
My wife just called and said our van got broken into this morning in one of the parking garages at Circle Center mall. :xmad:
Several other cars around it had windows busted out. They apparently popped the lock out of our van and didn't break any windows out. She said nothing appeared to...
So... I am a new college student. I started classes this spring semester, to get on the road to becoming an electrical lineman for the power company I work for. In my English class, we were all assigned the same topic to right about. We are to chose a side, and in the paper, argue for that...
Wonder how many were US militias, veterans, etc since we were told to be on the look out for what they might be up too...
Terrorists bent on murder and destruction. Elected officials on the take. Cyber crooks hacking networks and emptying bank accounts. Fraudsters using scams old and new to...
The IndyStar has an article about home robberies in Indianapolis that is very interesting:
Home invasions target the have-nots | IndyStar.com | The Indianapolis Star
The main point of the article is that homes in poor neighborhoods are the ones most likely to be victimized; not really...
Monday a credit union got robbed.
Tuesday a CVS got robbed.
Wednesday a Walgreens got robbed.
and this morning, on my way to work I drive by my credit union and theres a Sherrif's car in the parking lot. Yup, it got robbed this morning. Ive live here all my life and never heard of this...