Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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According to the FBI, a crime is committed every two seconds in the U.S. In the past five years, the number of violent crimes has increased by more than 20%. Nearly one-third of all households were victimized by violence or theft in 1982. Yet while the crime situation has worsened, budgetary pressures have caused most large cities to reduce the numbers of their police officers...
...expose Italy's rococo inefficiency, a sextet of foreign women in a sleepy Tuscan village decide to rob a local mail train. Plotting the crime as if it were a script, they adopt literary aliases, don disguises and then, without much difficulty, carry off the million-dollar theft. The lackadaisical local police force instantly sets up an intensive manhunt, combing the area for conmen, wise guys and rogues. But the women, as they had suspected, are not in the least suspected...
Priorities for the future, Johnson says, include "crime prevention," and particularly, computer crime prevention. "The Chief pointed to the recent report on computer theft at the Business School--the broadest assessment of that of security in University history--as evidence of progress toward these ends...
...allegedly raped on the evening of January 9 by two 15-year-old males she knew, according to University police. The suspects, who police said forced the woman into a back room, were charged with rape, kidnapping, and armed burglary. Police also charged one of the men with theft...
...hand in hand among some West German youth gangs. Fans for Dortmund's Borussia soccer team regularly sing Nazi songs and chant Heil, Hitler! in the stands and terrorize immigrants after matches. At pressent, 37 members of the group are being investigated on charges of racial incitement, theft, assault and breach of the peace. When West Germany played Turkey last November in a qualifying match for this year's European championships, police posted 6,000 men at West Berlin's Olympic stadium. Turkish shops were given special protection after neo-Nazi groups threatened that the Kreuzberg ghetto...