Baroness Neville-Jones said some of the cyber crime activity was "state-sponsored" but although the government had the ability to strike back it was "anxious not to get into a barney with friendly countries" over the issue.
The category of cyber crime includes fraudulent online shopping activity, computer software service fraud, computer misuse crime, offences linked to computer viruses and spyware and computer hacking.
Finally, freeways create border vacuums with high crime and low economic activity.
An extensive article that appeared in The Atlantic in March 2008 cited rising crime rates and gang activity as problems in these areas as well.
It raised concerns about the exploitation of women and claimed the activity could increase crime.
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Cyber crime generally refers to criminal activity conducted via the Internet.
The city cited increases in crime rates, more gang activity, higher spending on bilingual education at its public schools and on health care, and various other expenses, with no offsetting rise in tax revenues.
"If no crime has been committed, no activity has come up on the radar screen, we can't arbitrarily start rounding people up, " he said.
And so it is just as likely that local police will find out about these through community policing, their relationships with the community, through ordinary criminal investigations which may bring them - as we had a case in California -into contact with something that turned out to be more than ordinary crime, or through dedicated intelligence activity.
But, apart from boosting police earnings, will all this activity halt the rise in crime?
In a statement the Met said funding from organisations was used in several areas of police activity such as the Dedicated Cheque and Plastic Crime Unit.
It says about 50% of its activity concerns the resettlement of offenders, 45% crime prevention and 5% criminal justice reform.
Partnership, pro-activity and prevention will be the focus of Wiltshire's police and crime plan, the Police and Crime Commissioner (PCC) has announced.
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It is not simply a crime like bank robbery, which is why military and intelligence agencies have undertaken much of our antiterrorist activity since Sept. 11, 2001.
And it also leaves out the fact that you could certainly use other methods, as other cities do, to force crime down that don't rely on this kind of very aggressive stop-and-frisk activity that embarrasses and humiliates, and most importantly, drives people away from police.
Such activity, carried out by people in positions of authority, should be considered a particularly serious crime, and help given in uncovering such crimes should be rewarded with immunity from criminal prosecution.
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