Threat of 'Dirty Bomb' Growing

Los Angeles Times: Concerns are growing that Al Qaeda or a related group could detonate a "dirty bomb" that would spew radioactive fallout across an American or European city, according to intelligence analysts, diplomats and independent nuclear experts. Although safeguards...

Compstat Shakes Up Police Departments from NY to Baltimore to Boston to LA

New York Region > New York's Gospel of Policing by Data Spreads Across U.S." href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/28/nyregion/28NYPD.html?pagewanted=print&position=">The New York Times: In the mid-1990's, a new management program called Compstat shook up the New York Police Department. Detectives stopped working 9-to-5 and...

Heightened Surveillance in Wealthy Florida Town

NewsObserver.com: Manalapan, Florida -- One of the nation's wealthiest towns will soon have cameras and computers running background checks on every car and driver that passes through. Police Chief Clay Walker said cameras will take infrared photos recording a car's...

Gunshot Detection Technology in Chicago

Chicago Sun Times: Big Brother isn't just watching the bad guys in Chicago. By late summer, he'll be listening as well -- for the sound of gunshots. Gunshot detection technology -- capable of "triangulating within 20 feet" of the location...

Women Find a New Arena for Equality: Prison

New York Times: Becky Pemberton, a nurse, is serving a 35-year sentence at the Mabel Bassett women's prison here for grabbing money out of cash registers in stores in Oklahoma City while she was addicted to heroin. She did not...

Congress Passes Bill That Will Limit Spam

InsideBaltimore.com Congress moved significantly closer to the first-ever federal protections against unwanted commercial e-mails with the House passing a bill Saturday that would impose new limits on sending irritating offers on the Internet. Final approval by lawmakers could come before...

S.F. Cops Match DNA with that of Predator in Prison

San Francisco Chronicle: It was a speck of evidence, barely detectable to the human eye, but carefully preserved for 35 years. That stroke of foresight was enough to help San Francisco police solve a horrible crime in which a 14-year-old...

Ruble Falls After Russian Tycoon's Arrest

My Way News: Confidence in Russia's economy and leadership fell dramatically Monday after the weekend arrest of its richest man, with the ruble losing value against the dollar and shares of the biggest oil producer being pulled from trading because...

Brazil moves to tighten gun laws

BBC Brazil's lower house of Congress has passed a bill to tighten gun laws in a country which saw 40,000 murders last year - one of the world's highest rates. The legislation, which now goes to the Senate for final...

Study Finds Hundreds of Thousands of Inmates Mentally Ill

NYT As many as one in five of the 2.1 million Americans in jail and prison are seriously mentally ill, far outnumbering the number of mentally ill who are in mental hospitals, according to a comprehensive study released Tuesday. The...

Police discover potent new tool for auto thieves

KRT Wire: If you drive a Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep or Plymouth, this story will be a bummer. Philadelphia police say teenage thieves are circulating copies of an illegal "master key" that starts many cars in those Chrysler lines. Circulating and...

Mexico security industry booms

azcentral.com: Armored-car dealerships are as common as boutiques among the mansions and high-rise hotels of Mexico City's ritziest neighborhoods, and sports cars are often trailed by steel-plated sport utility vehicles packed with bodyguards. Yet Mexico's growing security industry, fueled by...

The Impact Of Sarbanes-Oxley

Forbes.com: OK, it's been [over] a year since President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act into law July 30, 2002. So? While Sarbanes-Oxley is consistently called the broadest-sweeping legislation to affect corporations and public accounting since the 1933 and 1934 securities...

House Approves Identity Theft Protections

Inman News: By a vote of 392-30, the House of Representatives today approved landmark legislation to give consumers new tools to fight the rapidly growing crime of identity theft. ... "Consumers rely on affordable access to credit," House Financial Services...

Violent Crime Rate Lowest Since 1973

CBS News: The nation saw violent crimes other than murder fall by 9 percent last year, marking the lowest level since the government began surveying victims in 1973. ... Specialists said the decade-long decrease in violent results mainly from the...