ATF chief: Crime rose as cities' funding dropped

Violent crime has increased in some cities in recent years in part because local police are too cash-strapped to fight it, the ATF chief said Monday.

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Violent Crime on Rise in Big U.S. Cities

FBI statistics Monday confirmed what big cities like Philadelphia, Houston, Cleveland and Las Vegas have seen on the streets: Violent crime in the U.S. is on the rise, posting its biggest one-year increase since 1991.

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A man using a wheelchair and his teenage stepson were attacked and cut overnight by home invaders using a machete, Daytona Beach police said today.

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Last month, I wrote about new questions in the case of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for setting a fire that killed his two children.

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Let us be clear precisely what this means.

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Bill Belanger told his daughter that two killers will only leave prison dead, and two others will soon be executed. He also told her he's working to stop violent criminals like them. They killed his daughter in her bedroom five years ago today.

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Recent SCOTUS Ruling Takes Justice Out of the Justice System

As was asked in a previous seed, "Does the Constitution Grant a Right to DNA Testing That Could Prove Innocence?

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BRANDON, MAN. - A young man travelling on a Greyhound bus was stabbed to death and beheaded by a stranger in a horrifying act of apparently random violence. The incident occurred on a bus travelling from Edmonton to Winnipeg just before 10 p.m. Wednesday.

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The mutilated bodies of three cats were found in Southwest Miami-Dade this week, adding to the dozens that were already maimed and killed this month by an apparent serial cat killer.

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Life Sentences For Minors Needs Review. a worthy debate

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What the two of these topics are doing in the same article is beyond me, but... Putting a fine a nudity is simply archane. Really what are we afraid of? We show so much violence and hate on TV and we have children killing each other.

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Obama cannot learn. The ban of 1994 did nothing to stem crime. The actual flow of weapons over the border is far less than the "90%" figure quoted by NYT, WP and various politicians who want the ban reinstated.

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You don't have to be a devout reader of the Daily Mail to have concerns that there really is a problem with young people behaving badly.

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Cooper created the Violence Intervention Program (VIP) at the Shock Trauma Unit of the University of Maryland Medical Center, the state's busiest hospital for violent injuries. It became one of the country's first hospital-based anti-violence programs. More Articles

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Excerpt: David Kaczynski, the brother of the man convicted in the deadly "Unabomber" mail bombing spree, will visit the campus to advocate for a nationwide end to the death penalty, on Tuesday, March 3, at SUNY Cortland.

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After being shot in the back at Mardi Gras, a 21-year-old man is in stable condition in a local hospital. Mardi Gras ended at midnight Tuesday night with a total of 12 shootings tainting this year's celebrations. It is unknown if the shootings are related.

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Criminal gangs in the USA have swelled to an estimated 1 million members responsible for up to 80% of crimes in communities across the nation, according to a gang threat assessment compiled by federal officials.

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This youtube video reports on the largest protest in England in modern times on the issue of firearms.

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A Unity Township soldier accused of killing a 75-year-old man in September will not face the possibility of the death penalty.

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For the past several years, as this Army installation in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains became a busy way station for soldiers cycling in and out of Iraq, the number of servicemen implicated in violent crimes has raised alarm.

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The state crime lab "confirmed with all scientific certainty that Mr. Vance is the DNA contributor of the suspect in Ms. Pressly's murder," the affidavit said.

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20 places which are among the most dangerous places to visit on Earth. The usual suspects are represented.

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Restart: The Death Penalty-- Why Antonin Scalia Should Be Forced to Sit on Death Row

In January of this year, I wrote this article, spurred in part by what I perceived to be tragic injustice in the handling of the case of Troy Davis, sentenced to die for a crime of which there exists considerable doubt that he committed.

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Discussing the Italian government's decision to deploy soldiers on city streets to combat violent crime allegedly committed by illegal immigrants, Michael Savage said: "So they've done there what we need to do here.

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In his opening address, Mr Meredith told the jury several witnesses would testify that they overheard Jones and Roughan boasting about the killing.

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Marian Fitzgerald is the visiting professor of criminology at the University of Kent and joint author of 'Young People and Street Crime', a report for the Youth Justice Board in 2003

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