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...Despite those rare school shootings reporters cover with such lip-licking zeal, the rate of school violence fell from 48 crimes per 1,000 students in 1992 to 22 per 1,000 in 2004, according to the Department of Education. In raw terms, the number of student crimes (including theft) shrank from 3.4 million to 1.4 million in that period, even as the U.S. teen population grew by 5.4 million kids. Post-Columbine security explains some of the decline, but the school crime rate started to drop in the mid-'90s. And the rate at which 12-to-17-year...
...Noorzai's arrest really made a difference in heroin production? U.S. taxpayers will now have to spend millions to prosecute and detain him. The U.S. could wipe out the drug trade tomorrow by legalization and taxation, which would take away the enormous profits earned in illicit trade and reduce theft by addicts who steal to support their habit. The huge sums saved on incarceration and policing could be spent on health care and education. William A. Ring, SAN DIEGO
...campaign to quash the piracy of copyrighted material on college campuses across the country, which they claim has cost billions of dollars of lost revenue. While the RIAA’s concern is understandable—after all, piracy is illegal and the RIAA has every right to punish theft as they see fit—universities have no obligation to be proactive in aiding them. The Association should rethink its approach before handing down more summons. In late February, RIAA president Cary Sherman invoked the law in a letter to the presidents of 2,000 of America?...
...very careful to lock their door, leaving it open only when they were present in the room, Dasher said. According to Catalano, burglaries in Harvard housing saw a 52 percent decrease in 2006 from the year before. Last year, there were 42 robberies in undergraduate residences. Eight incidences of theft in undergraduate housing were reported to HUPD in January and February of this year. Three weeks ago, an intruder was apprehended for attempted robbery of an occupied Kirkland House bedroom. —Staff writer Jamison A. Hill can be reached at jahill@fas.harvard.edu...
...Officers were dispatched to Strauss Hall B entry to take a report of an attempted theft. The officers arrived and observed that a door in the basement had been smashed open. FMO was notified and arrived to secure the door. It is unknown at this time if anything has been stolen...