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AZCentral.com - The Valley's police chiefs are fond of telling us that to do their jobs, they must have the public's trust. I'm guessing it wouldn't hurt to have the trust of the men and women they send onto the streets either. The ones I've talked to this week are ...

Times Online - Fans reacted with fury yesterday to the murder of Lucky Dube, the biggest reggae star in Africa, who was killed in a botched carjacking attempt on the outskirts of Johannesburg. Caller after caller, many in tears, rang in to early-morning radio shows ...

Baltimore Sun - Yes, crime is a factor and certainly schools are, but the property tax has a very negative impact on development in the city. It's one reason you see property values low compared to surrounding [county] subdivisions." Adds Donald C. Fry, president of ...

Baltimore Sun - The federally funded study being released today paints a complex portrait of the signature crime of the digital age, one that has been the top consumer-fraud complaint to federal authorities for six consecutive years. Of more than 500 offenders ...

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Roy L. Brown, left, Stephon Knox and David D. Cheatham raise their hands in support of the 10,000 men call to action Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007, in Philadelphia. Thousands of black men turned out to register Sunday for a volunteer effort aimed at reducing ...

BBC UK News - Recently, the debate raised its head when OJ Simpson brought out a "hypothetical" crime memoir entitled "If I did it". The ex-US football star gained international notoriety in 1995 when he was tried and acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and her ...

New York Post - These are the same sort of cheap scare tactics that the US Attorney's Office uses on organized-crime members," Lichtman said. Sharpton's spokeswoman, Rachel Noerdlinger, and his "decency Initiative" director, Tamika Mallory, were among 10 of the ...

St. Petersburg Times - Hillsborough Sheriff's Office officials are investigating a string of armed robberies that took place over the course of an hour early Thursday. The first was reported at 2:26 a.m. at a 7-Eleven convenience store at 1902 U.S. 301 N., where two men ...

Wanstead and Woodford Guardian - CRIME levels fell in Redbridge from 25,077 recorded in 2006 to 22,664 in 2007 according to figures from the Metropolitan Police but the number of drugs offences has shot up. The 12 months to November last year saw nearly a ten per cent drop in ...

Newsday - HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ Legislators say they expect lengthy debate on ways to strengthen the state's laws against home-invasion crimes and violent repeat offenders when they meet in a special session Tuesday. Republican and Democratic state leaders ...