But the statistics have become meaningless since a horrific crime in an upscale neighbourhood left residents frightened and outraged.
But the jury did not believe these claims and convicted Coats and Wade of abducting, assaulting, robbing and murdering Ms Spence, and a second charge of clearing up after the alleged crime in an attempt to defeat the ends of justice.
Crime Prevention Minister James Brokenshire told the BBC it was not "some great big government snooping exercise", but a change designed to allow police officers to continue to solve crime in an era when communications data - details of phone calls - was used in 95% of all serious crime and terrorism cases.
We will require the publication of crime data online in an open way so that communities can build their own crime maps, see what crimes are being committed, where and at what time and hold their local police to account if they're not doing something about it.
"She chose to live in the shadows and she did a good job of it, " John Theodore, an author who wrote a 2002 nonfiction book about the crime, wrote in an email Sunday.
Mr Zedillo has had to face both a surge in petty crime, which is blamed on the economic crisis, and an increase in organised crime: especially in drug-trafficking, after the relative weakening of the Colombian drug gangs allowed more room for Mexican ones.
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Earlier this month, police in Europe said an organised crime syndicate based in Singapore had been behind the rigging of hundreds of games between 2008 and 2011.
Soon he found himself facing charges in Italy and was named in an organised crime civil suit brought by 10 EU governments in the United States.
Mr Slaughter said cross-border crime was an area in which there was "little controversy on the principle".
But Gilmore is attacking the Democrat on Richmond, Roanoke and Norfolk television stations on issues like crime and welfare reform in an attempt to polarize the race ideologically, and it is apparently working.
That's where Parker's former comrades in crime are planning an elaborate jewel heist, and where the movie takes a belly whopper into low-tide absurdity by introducing, and constantly leering at, a near-penniless real estate agent named Leslie, who is played by Jennifer Lopez.
The home secretary and senior police officers believe this has fuelled the 11% rise in violent incidents shown in the latest figures despite an overall drop in crime.
The Russian government has abandoned an agreement with the US on fighting crime and the drugs trade, in an apparent sign of worsening relations.
The accused were shuttled back and forth between Italy and India in recent months while the two governments argued over the legal consequences of an alleged crime committed in international waters, the BBC's David Willey, in Rome, reports.
He says that one in every two warrants results in the arrest of an individual involved in serious crime.
Colombian investment in the military and security forces have lead to an overall reduction in crime and terror.
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But it has been plagued by fiscal troubles in the wake of the global financial crisis and an uptick in violent crime.
As with the Nigerian scammers, crime has attracted some of the smartest, most ambitious entrepreneurs in an environment where almost nothing but crime pays, and much of what sets apart the best of them is the same as in any line of legitimate business elsewhere around the world.
The other thread running through the book is the degree to which crime in East Asia is now an international phenomenon.
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They are suspected of involvement in an organised crime group believed to have been arranging fake marriages between Portuguese and African nationals.
In an earlier crime known as the Craigslist killing, a Boston medical student named Philip Markoff was charged with shooting to death one woman and robbing another.
Berlusconi is currently awaiting a verdict in a trial in which he stands accused of paying an underage prostitute for sex on more than 13 occasions and abusing his office to protect her in an unrelated crime.
But, overall, the decline in government-led publicity for the issue combined with an apparent drop in organized crime related murders have led to a real improvement in the perception of crime and security within Mexico.
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Mr Barrett, who withdrew his candidacy on Wednesday, worked for crime reduction charity Nacro for more than 30 years and was made an OBE in 1999 for services to crime reduction.
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They called a glove expert, Richard Rubin, in an attempt to show that the crime scene gloves were the same kind Simpson wore in photographs taken between 1991-94.
In 1998 an Australian crime ring was caught hawking knockoffs of the famed 1990 Penfolds Grange.
Dyfed-Powys Police objected on grounds that it could lead to an increase in crime and disorder.
Rising unemployment rates and falling city budgets are a recipe for an uptick in crime.
"Cutting down on crime and being aggressive in policing is an important goal, " said Matthew Brinkerhof.
The charity thinks the cuts will see an increase in crime and homelessness.
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