Hospitals 'could aid crime fight'
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Despite mounting public concern at knife crime, and more than 350 such offences committed every day, attacks with knives and other violent crimes were down, statistics published yesterday showed. (article 5)
Canada's national crime rate declined for the third straight year in 2007, according to Statistics Canada, which attributed the drop largely to a decrease in counterfeiting and property offences such as break-ins and vehicle thefts. (article 9)
StatsCan data released Thursday shows a seven per cent drop in the national crime rate, which the agency said also stems from fewer serious violent offences like homicides, attempted murders, sexual assaults and robberies. (article 9)
Nova Scotia's crime rate may be down for the third year in a row, but the government shouldn't overlook the alarming numbers for violent youth crime, the Opposition says. (article 8)
The latest figures from Statistics Canada, released Thursday, suggest an overall decrease in crime of eight per cent in 2007, with declines in robberies, car theft and property crime. (article 8)
If it were true that police recorded crime really had fallen by 9per cent and crime measured by the British Crime Survey really was down by a tenth, the Government would deserve a little praise. (article 6)
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Source articles
- Boast if you must, but not too loudly (timesonline.co.uk, 07/15/2008, 427 words)
- In graphics: Crime figures 2007/08 (BBC News, 07/17/2008, 189 words)
- Recorded crime figures show fall (BBC News, 07/17/2008, 591 words)
- Analysis: Crime figures down (BBC News, 07/17/2008, 752 words)
- Economic gloom could reverse the downward trend in recorded crime (timesonline.co.uk, 07/17/2008, 949 words)
- Prison works. So why won't we admit it? (timesonline.co.uk, 07/15/2008, 875 words)
- Cities You Can Believe In (Washington Post, 07/17/2008, 548 words)
- Nova Scotia crime rate down: StatsCan (cbc.ca, 07/17/2008, 259 words)
- Canada's crime rate drops for 3rd straight year: StatsCan (cbc.ca, 07/17/2008, 259 words)
- Crime falls, but stabbings not just an urban problem (timesonline.co.uk, 07/16/2008, 329 words)
- UK Crime News (timesonline.co.uk, 07/16/2008, 538 words)
- Hospitals 'could aid crime fight' (BBC News, 07/18/2008, 418 words)
- Police 'to be freed from targets' (BBC News, 07/17/2008, 540 words)
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