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Violent crime down in the homeland, except
in the smaller towns, per FBI
The homeland was safer last year, according to the FBI's
Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report.
Violent crimes in the country declined by 2.5 percent in 2008,
compared to the previous year, while property crimes decreased
1.6 percent nationally.
In fact, the only property crime to show an increase nationally
was burglary, up 1.3 percent over last year.
And in the violent crime categories, only smaller towns, those
with fewer than 10,000 residents, suffered crime increases.
Specifically, in the nation's small hamlets, murder was up 5.5
percent, forcible rape was up 1.4 percent and robbery was up 3.9
percent.
Nationally, murder and non-negligent manslaughter were down 4.4
percent, aggravated assault was down 3.2 percent, forcible rape
was down 2.2 percent and and robbery was down 1.1 percent.
Arson crimes, separated out from other property crimes, were
down all across the country, too, with the biggest drop (5.9
percent) in the West. The FBI will release final 2008 statistics
in the fall of this year.
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Aug 2008
FBI needs to convert millions of
fingerprint cards to electronic records
The FBI is scanning millions of hard-copy fingerprint cards
stored in West Virginia and convert the fingerprints and
accompanying text data into electronic format.
The Card Scanning Service (CSS) effort is designed to allow the
FBI to utilize its current paperless Integrated Automated
Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS), which was initiated
in 1999, with hard-copy fingerprints that were gathered in
earlier years.
The project is to convert an
average of 3,000 newly obtained criminal and civil fingerprint
cards each day, as well as palm-print cards, photographs of
faces, scars, marks and tattoos, and fingerprints from foreign
nationals.
In addition, it will be expected to
maintain their conversion facilities "within easy transport
range" of the FBI’s fingerprint facility in Fairmont, WV -- will
work their way through an archive of approximately 35 million
existing fingerprint cards during the next five years, according
to a Sources Sought notice posted by the FBI on Aug. 15.
"Staff working at the FBI facility in Fairmont, WV, will receive
the fingerprint cards from the FBI catalog and stage the cards
for shipping, securely transport the cards to the Contractor’s
facility, process the cards at the Contractor’s facility, and
then return hard copy cards to the FBI for completion of a
quality assurance review," the notice explained.
The cards are optically scanned and converted into electronic
data that complies with the Electronic Fingerprint Transmission
Specification (EFTS).
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