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Enquirer: Cincinnati's record pace of homicides slows

Cincinnati Police Chief Tom Streicher is crediting that city's tougher stance on criminals who use guns in the commission of their crimes for slowing what was a record pace of homicides this year. The program, known as Project Safe Neighborhoods, was created nearly two years ago in response to the city's most violent summer in decades. Streicher says the homicide numbers, while only a modest...

Tale of Two Cities: Akron deliverymen robbed; Pittsburgh robber shot

As the weather warms, crime against restaurant delivery workers tends to rise. Robbers are more comfortable lurking outside in the shadows, waiting at a phony address, having provided a bogus phone number, police say. ``Although there hasn't been a significant change, there does seem to be a rise in restaurant delivery robberies,'' said Capt. Daniel Zampelli of the Akron Police Department. ``Our...

Blade: Toledo's violent crime rate on the rise

City officials and the Toledo media are busy touting the fact that a computer glitch falsely indicated Toledo's overall crime rate in 2002 rose by 2%, when in fact it dropped by 1%. The nature of the malfunction caused by some double-counting. But they're certainly not headlining the real story: despite a ban on inexpensive handguns in the city, and despite city-funded gun "buyback" programs (...

Canton Repository: Movie-goers a target for car thieves

Ken Samblanet took his son, Dustin, to see a movie in an attempt to cheer him up. But when “Matrix Reloaded” ended, the father and son stepped out into Tinseltown Theatre’s parking lot only to notice something was missing. Dustin’s truck. Click on the "Read More..." link below for more. The Samblanets aren’t the only movie-goers finding themselves the prey of vandals and thieves, police say...

Oxford (OH) Press: New shooter identifies with Annie Oakley

This column doesn't address concealed carry reform, but should serve as a reminder that we all would do well to offer non-shooters the opportunity to try it out. All too often, it's a much better "converter" than facts, figures, and anecdotal stories about crime and defenselessness. By Andrea Might OXFORD PRESS I never realized how much I have in common with Annie Oakley. A resident of nearby...

Louisiana serial killings suspect arrested

A man suspected in the killings of five women was arrested peacefully outside a tire store, ending a months-long manhunt in a case that terrified women across Louisiana. Derrick Todd Lee, 34, was taken into custody by three police officers Tuesday evening, Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington said. Authorities had just missed apprehending Lee at a homeless shelter and then at a motel. "We have...

Letter to the Editor: ''I'll choose to fight''

An interesting discussion has been ongoing in the opinion pages of the Cleveland Plain Dealer . It was instigated after columnist Regina Brett published a piece praising the differences "between us and them, between regular folks and police officers. We flee; they fight." Consider this offering, from letter writer Daniel K. Lapp of Strongsville (click on the "Read More..." link below): 5/25/03 In...

Rape deterrence and concealed carry reform

According to the Akron Beacon-Journal , Tallmadge police are investigating a Friday morning rape. A woman said she was walking in the area of Arlington and East Exchange streets in Akron when a man in a light blue minivan offered her a ride. The woman told police the man then took out a stun gun and gave her a jolt on her right side. She told police he drove her to a parking lot in the 600 block...

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