The total crime rate is up "a touch" because of thefts of Apple products, Bloomberg said in a radio interview.

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If their chances of recidivism can be reduced by 30%, it would clearly affect the total crime numbers in many societies.

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Total crime in Northamptonshire fell by 7%, with violent incidents falling by 2%, despite other areas seeing a riser in that category.

BBC: Nottinghamshire has the highest burglary rate in England

Total recorded crime increased at an underlying rate of 2% in 2001-02, with some violent crimes increasing faster: robbery, for instance, rose by 27%.

ECONOMIST: Blair's government

Let us co-operate on security, work together to prosecute terrorist crime, share information, show total solidarity in our determination against terrorism.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Politics | Blair's speech in Lisbon

Estimates of the total number of deaths linked to drugs and organised crime so far this year range from 1, 100 to 2, 500 people.

ECONOMIST: Drug violence in Mexico

"The nature of the crime and the vulnerability of the immigrants does not allow us to know the total number of abductions, " the commission's president, Raul Plascencia, told a news conference in Mexico City.

BBC: More than 11,000 migrants abducted in Mexico

Deputy Assistant Commissioner Helen Ball said the force launched its Total Victim Care strategy in April 2012 with a renewed focus on improving the service victims of crime receive.

BBC: Met Police needs to 'up its game' on victim support