Topic: Crime
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How the Cutting Edge in Crowdsourced Crime Fighting Could Do More Harm Than Good
Police in London want you to help hunt for pick-pocketers with your smart phone. It's an idea with serious flaws.
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Survey of the Day: Police Officers Admit They Downplay Crimes
A survey of retired New York City police officers shows a "rotten barrel," according to the study authors.
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What Honeybees Can Teach Us About Gang-Related Crime
Police typically identify gang territories by tracking crime, graffiti and other clues. But a simple ecological equation might do the job even better.
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Surveillance Cameras Could Make Us Better People
New research finds the "bystander effect" can be offset by the presence of public self-awareness.
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Democracy in America
Officials Gone Wild: You Can't Go Naked in Public Without Consequences
The crimes, blunders and everyday embarrassments of our esteemed municipal leaders.
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Videos
Death Served Cold: Revisiting the Bloody 'Glasgow Ice-Cream Wars'
Animosity still lingers among Scottish ice cream-truck drivers long after the infamous gangland battles of the '80s.
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A Crime Most Slippery: Grease Thieves Plague the Restaurant Industry
Step aside, copper thieves. There's a new weirdly brazen criminal in town.
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Can Trees Actually Deter Crime?
Believe it or not, a new study of canopy coverage in Baltimore suggests maybe they can.
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Democracy in America
This Week in Bans: Massachusetts City Plagued by Horrible Saxophonist
Salem has had it up to here with inept jazz musicians. Also outlawed recently: noisy electronica in Santa Cruz, payday lenders in Iowa and the entire vice squad of Salt Lake City.
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Even In Low-Crime Portland, Police Want Cameras
Despite pockets of crime, critics say the cameras are taking police power too far.
