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Despite a drop in total crimes on campus and a substantial decrease in burglaries in 2004, violent crime—which consists of sex offenses, robberies, and aggravated assault—has risen from a total of 24 crimes...
...Violent crime has been steadily decreasing nationwide since 1994, according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice...
Harvard’s increase in violent crime is mainly due to the spike in sex offenses reported to the police, which has risen over the last two years, from 13 to 19 confidential reports filed and an increase in the number of formal reports filed from three...
...concerned about that much of an increase,” said Steven G. Catalano, HUPD’s spokesman. “What it tells us is that 13 additional victims got help last year. We will take a 38 percent increase in our violent crime rate, if it means 13 additional victims received the help they required...
Perhaps the most effective way to combat terrorism in this form is not through superior technology, Atran and Stern said, but through the substitution of terror-related websites with those that advocate a non-violent religious community...