| Title | Number | Year | Source | Author | Summary |
| America: All Locked Up | 14786 | 1998 | National Journal | Carl M. Cannon | Tough sentencing laws are putting record numbers of Americans behind bars. Supporters say the result has been lower crime rates, but critics question whether we've gone too far. The National Journal examines both sides of this heated debate. |
| Boca Raton Crime Statistics Scandal | 15111 | 1998 | Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale) | C. Ron Allen, Karla Schuster | The Sun-Sentinel discovers broad and routine manipulation of crime statistics at the Boca Raton Police Services Department. The story found that the department was investigating hundreds of crime reports to determine whether they had been improperly downgraded. It discovered that the number three supervisor in the department had improperly downgraded hundreds of crimes to protect the image of the city, which had always prided itself as one of the county's most affluent and crime free communities. |
| Crimes Uncounted and the Rape Squad Files | 16389 | 1999 | Philadelphia Inquirer | Mark Fazlollah, Craig McCoy, Michael Matza & Clea Benson | The Inquirer found the Philadelphia Police Department's sex-crimes unit suppressed the citywide rape count and doctored its crime reports from the early 1980s until 1998, leading to promising leads that weren't pursued and rapists striking again... " With thousands of incidents excluded from the official count, the city's crime statistics were meaningless - worse, misleading. The rape squad's much-touted clearance rate was a hoax...." |
| Deadly Force: An Investigation of D.C. Police Shootings | 14926 | 1998 | Washington Post | Jeff Leen, Jo Craven, David Jackson, Sari Horwitz, Ira Chinoy | Washington Post series reveals that D.C. police officers in the 1990s have shot and killed more people per resident than any other large American city police force. Internal police files and court records revealed a pattern of reckless gunplay by officers with inadequate training and little oversight. |
| How Safe Are We? | 16477 | 1999 | Gazette Telegraph (Colorado Springs, CO) | Debra Franco | A Gazette Telegraph investigation of crime rates in Colorado Springs revealed that overall crime has decreased 3.6percent from 1996 to 1998. However, the investigation also revealed that violent crime has increased 14 percent over the same period. |
| College Community Crime Risk | 16337 | 1999 | APB Online | Ben Lesser and Bob Port | This report analyzes the crime risk in U.S. college communities, complete with risk maps and ratings. Port and Lesser used documents from GAO reports and the Department of Education investigative reports. |
| The Crime Bust | 15514(15033) | 1998 | U.S. News & World Report | Gordon Witkin | From 1993 to 1996 murders fell a striking 20 percent, and the FBI announces an additional 9 percent reduction in 1997. U.S. News explores the following topics related to crime: the economy, crime prevention, battered wives, prisons, police, crack, criminals on crime and property crime. |
| How Safe Is Penn? Depends on Who's Tallying Crimes | 13584 | 1996 | Philadelphia Inquirer | Michael Matza | The Philadelphia Inquirer investigates crime statistics at the University of Pennsylvania since the passage of the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act of 1990. The act requires universities to compile, publish and distribute annual statistics about crimes that have occurred on their campuses. The Inquirer's story revealed a loophole that allowed Penn to discount more than 90 percent of the armed robberies that occurred in its patrol area by defining them as "off-campus" crimes. |
| Buffalo Suburbs Have Crime Rate Far Below Nation | 12357 | 1994 | Buffalo News | Zremnski, Ciotta | The Buffalo News looks at FBI statistics on property crime and violent crime in the Buffalo area. The stats also show that the suburbs closest to Buffalo generally have dramatically lower crime rates than suburban areas nationwide. |
| MTC: A Safe Ride? Crime: Some Routes A War Zone | 10568 | 1994 | St. Paul Pioneer Press | Dan Browning | The Pioneer Press does a computer-assisted investigation on crime on bus routes in the Twin Cities. It finds that the rate of crime has increased and incidents ranged from snowballs being thrown at buses to a fatal stabbing. Most drivers have been victims of such violence and crime, June 12, 1994. |
| NJ Crime Reports Omit Many Sex Cases: State Lawmakers Urge Redefining of Sex | 15681 | 1999 | Bergen Record | Robert Gebeloff | The Bergen Record examines the growing trend of sex cases not being included in many of New Jersey's crime reports. The reason: a 70-year-old system of collecting crime data that relies on the traditional definition of rape, a holdover from the days when society largely ignored other forms of abuse. The online version (see related links) offers year-by-year crime statistics for each borough, as well as town trends. |
| Children and the Law: How Safe is Your 'Burb? | 15730 | 1999 | ABA Journal | Debra Baker | The ABA Journal takes a closer look into the rise in suburban juvenile crime. Baker shows that what we thought was an inner-city problem is now happening in rural towns, like Moses Lake, Wash. or Littleton, Colo. She compares inner city young and suburban teenagers, and although there are many different outlets for their violence. there is violence in each areas nonetheless. |
| Detroit Drug Houses: Out of Control | 16037 | 1999 | Detroit News | Woolley & Hunter | "The News used computer databases of three years' worth of Detroit crime records to isolate the location (street address) and dates of felony narcotics arrests. The paper identified more than 300 properties that had been the scene of three or more felony arrests during the three-year span. The paper then examined each of the properties to determine: whether drugs still were sold there; who owned the property; what steps police had taken to stem the flow of drugs there; and what role, if any, did Detroit city agencies play in the acquisition, demolition or management of the properties . . . " |