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| Violent crime up in the homeland, except in the smaller towns, per FBIThe 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 recordsThe 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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news: Jun 2009
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