Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cambridge Police Department (CPD) recently released 3rd quarter crime statistics that show a slight decrease in the overall crime rate, including a 32 percent drop in the number of bicycle thefts, in Cambridge for the first nine months...
...while some crime rates plunged, others, like robbery, edged higher. The number of robberies increased 12 percent to 156. While commercial robbery decreased 11 percent, street robbery was up 16 percent...
Other statistics generally showed a decrease or no change compared with last year's numbers. Incidents of malicious destruction of property--by far the most commonly reported crime in Cambridge--fell 14 percent from 689 to 595 occurrences. The number of rapes reported, 17, equaled the 1997 figure, while aggravated assault arrests sank 4 percent...
...After that deposition, the committee faces the spectacle of more hearings to justify its hearings. Chairman Henry Hyde has scheduled a "perjury day" late next week -- when everyone from military officials to federal judges will appear to tell us what a horrible crime lying before the court is. Expect some real emotional moments as reformed felons relate stories of the day they told less than the whole truth. "Convicted perjurers may have personal experiences they want to relate," said GOP committee spokeswoman Michelle Morgan. Very interesting, to be sure -- but how useful will it be in this highly partisan environment...
...ecoterrorist strike on Vail Mountain, Colo. [CRIME, Nov. 2], was the first ever on behalf of saving the lynx. Although environmentalists believe lynxes live in the area, 20 years of study failed to turn up a single lynx anywhere in the state. People need to make the connection between radicals and the money given to animal-rights groups and left-wing environmental organizations, or we'll see more fires and worse by an emboldened network of ecoterrorists. BURT CAREY, EDITOR Rocky Mountain Game & Fish Marietta...