Word: crimed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crime 1997 1998 %Change Stranger Rape 0 0 0 Acquaintance Rape 3 5 67 Robbery 6 6 0 Aggravated Assault 17 21 24 Simple Assault 5 2 -60 Burglary 69 59 -14 Larceny Bicycle 226 158 -30 Larceny/All Other 648 512 -21 Motor Vehicle Theft 5 6 20 Vandalism 76 54 -29 Total Crime 1,310 1,037 -21 Source: Harvard Police Department
...hard numbers suggest that both the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) and the Cambridge Police Department (CPD) successfully combated crime this year. But behind the statistics lie two pensive police agencies, each struggling to solve internal disputes that may one day impact the communities they cover...
...Total crime on Harvard's Cambridge and Boston campuses has declined more than 21percent since 1997, including a nearly 30 percent drop in bike thefts, long the most persistent thorn in the side of campus law enforcers...
...Although Cambridge's crime rate edged up slightly, numbers show the city is as safe as it's been in nearly 40 years...
...both HUPD and CPD officials admit, crime trends can change. And so both agencies hope to revive an internal sense of mission in the year ahead...