Word: crime
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Given the recent number of robberies and crimes which have plagued the Harvard community, perhaps the Cambridge Police should take a few cops out of shops and put them back on the streets. The primary concern of the police should be the safety of the community at large. Although underage drinking is illegal, it certainly is not as harmful as violent crime. Even some Harvard administrators might agree that preventing knife-point robberies is more important than depriving college students of beer. JONATHAN REGENSTEIN...
Cambridge police and HUPD are working togetherto solve that crime...
...Property crime, such as car theft and larceny, has declined 18.4 percent since 1995, although the rate of auto theft did not significantly decline from 1996 to 1997, the report shows...
According to Lt. Steven Williams, coordinator of the city's community policing unit, the decline in crime is in part due to shifting demographics...
Noting that most crime is committed by 15 to 25-year-old males, he said "it's natural to assume that when there's been a reduction in that age group, there's been a reduction in crime," he says...