Crime Rates Rise In U.S. For The First Time In 12 Years

According to a report put out by the FBI this past Monday, crime rates in the United States have risen. And what is most disturbing is these statistics include violent crime rates which have gone up for the first time in 12 years. From 2005 to 2006 robberies rose 7.2% while in the same time period murders rose 1.8%.

The report puts forth a new challenge for the Bush administration, which of course has faced increased criticism from the Democratic congress. The criticism stems from cuts the Bush administration has made in federal assistance to local law enforcement agencies over the last 6 years.

An anti-crime package proposed by the Justice Department this year sets new minimum sentences, establishes stronger penalties for violations of firearms and widens conspiracy laws that will make for easier prosecution of violent gang members.

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Facts On Date Rape

A rape is not just a person jumping out of the bushes and sexually attacking someone. In fact, in many instances it is not even a stranger that rapes but someone who the person knows. About one half of all the persons raped know the person that attacked them, hence the term date rape.

Friendships, acquaintances and dates more often than not are happy. But in many circumstances they do end in violence and even rape. A date rape is just this; when forced sex occurs between two people who already know each other.

No one has the right to force a sexual act upon another person, regardless if you are on a date or you are with a friend. Girls are most often the victim of date rape but in 7 - 10% of cases date rape victims are male.

Rape is an act of sexual violence and has nothing to do with love, like or friendship. Date rape is always the fault of the rapist even if you are dating this person, you do not owe the person sex. A healthy relationship with someone you are dating or a friendship involves respect and that person will never force you to have sex with them.

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Unsolved Crimes Non-Profit Organization

The web site Unsolved Crimes, a non-profit organization, assists families who have lost love ones of a violent crime. This is a great site for those that are still in grief and have no resolution because of the unsolved crime that has occurred to someone they know and love.

There are thousands of murder cases languishing in police files that have gone unsolved and family members and loved ones wait helplessly and hopelessly to get their case solved.

This is where Unsolved Crimes comes in and tries to help. They pull these unsolved crime files out, pour over them from the beginning and re-examine all the evidence. Volunteers gather to hear all the evidence, review all the contents of the file and look over every detail. These experts include psychologists, handwriting experts, private investigators and even legal advisers. They then share any information they have uncovered with the police departments who may use it for (hopefully) eventual arrests.

Unsolved Crimes motto is: "We won't let the victim die twice - once in the field and once in the file."

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Crime Scene Scenarios To Avoid

With the world becoming more and more dangerous every day it seems you must look around every corner to avoid certain crime scene scenarios. There are certain crime scene scenarios that you always want to avoid so you never become a victim of crime.

Many crime scene scenarios to avoid occur at night when it is always more dangerous. Especially at night avoid dark alleyways, parking lots and parks. In fact, any place that is not well lit is a potential crime scene scenario.

Isolated places are another potential crime scene scenario. Go where the people are and especially if you are meeting someone, say, on a blind date.

Stay away from high crime neighborhoods at all costs. These neighborhoods can be a danger and potential crime scene scenario day or night.

These may seem obvious but many of us still put ourselves in harms way by approaching these areas and situations. If you do not want to become a victim avoid these crime scene scenarios.

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How To Stop Crime In Your Community

Safety comes in numbers and there are at least 10 things you can do in your community to stop crime.

Find out what your community needs and then you and others can team up to work with public agencies and other stop crime organizations that are neighborhood or community based to solve common problems. Next, focus on the youth of your community. Find positive ways they can spend their time either through recreational activities, tutoring, part-time work or community projects.

Patrol your own neighborhood with a neighborhood watch program. Make sure all streets and homes are well lighted. Work with the police and build a partnership with them. Safety works in numbers and you can organize group activities, rallies or marches to show the criminals you are serious.

Stop crime now by cleaning up your neighborhood. Get everyone involved to remove abandoned cars or fix up run down buildings. Work with local officials in how to get criminals out of your neighborhood buildings.

Support victims and witnesses of crime and form a court watch to help them. Make sure schools and parks in your area have strict gun and weapon laws and a curfew and then check to see if the laws are being enforced.

Lastly on how to stop crime in your neighborhood, put together a shared phone list with each others numbers as well as all emergency contacts, counseling, job training and other services.

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Stop A Sex Crime From Happening In Your Neighborhood

Empowerment begins with information and the best way to stop a sex crime from happening in your neighborhood is to learn what are the best ways to keep these criminals away from our children and our homes.

First go on the Internet to criminalinfo.com and get access for free to a nationwide criminal database. Here you can find if a criminal is living in your area as well as a registered sex offender. Get a sex offender location map and more at this helpful site.

Next, together with your neighbors you can set up a neighborhood block watch, as their slogan states to "take a bite out of crime."

And for your own home, bright security lights installed outside as well as a dog on the inside will help keep criminals at bay.

With these simple steps you can all stop a sex crime from happening in your neighborhood.

DNA Backlog Slows Unsolved Crimes

The huge FBI database of CODIS or Combined DNA Index System can be a valuable tool in finding a conclusion to unsolved crimes. However, the system is not living up to its potential and it does not prove as effective as it could be because of a severe backlogging in processing DNA samples.

Figures submitted to the U.S. Senate by the Justice Department have stated that almost 85% of all samples gathered up by the FBI since the year 2001 have remained unprocessed and have yet to be entered into the database. This could be disastrous for unsolved crimes cases.

A spokesman for the FBI said they receive 8,000 samples a month but only process 5,500. The backlog for unsolved crimes and criminals now totals around 200,000.

What should be done? Congress needs to check into the backlog problems more deeply and find solutions. Possibly finding the need to hire additional lab workers and technical resources to help bring CODIS back to its full running potential to solve unsolved crimes could be the answer.

Up Close Crime Scene Photos

For those who aren't faint of heart check out Crime Scene Virtual Tour on the Web, or CSVT, for that up close and personal invite into a crime scene.

At Crime Scene Virtual Tour you access a crime scene from any angle and get an overall idea of the place and what happened there. At CSVT you can zoom or pan, tilt and rotate the entire scene and make your own observations as to what happened and how. It will be just as good as if you were actually there and these crime scene photos could be the key evidence that convinces a jury.

CSVT is breaking the limitations and enabling people and law enforcement personal to navigate around the scene like never before without actually having to be there. This won't be like viewing crime scene photos through other peoples lenses since you have all the control of where you want to be in the room and how close you want to view it. The interactive map at CSVT is a helpful tool as well as crime scene sketching beside the images. With all this you can examine every piece of evidence up close.