Monday, April 16, 2012

5 years after Tech, Va. colleges gauge threats | Fox News

5 years after Tech, Va. colleges gauge threats | Fox News: "Virginia's colleges and universities have quietly investigated hundreds of students, employees and others in recent years to prevent a repeat of the Virginia Tech massacre of 2007, when a student gunman left a series of increasingly disturbing warning signs before killing 32 people and himself."

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Sunday, October 30, 2011

Student reports robbery near J&W | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper

Student reports robbery near J&W | CharlotteObserver.com & The Charlotte Observer Newspaper: "A Johnson & Wales University student reported he was pushed to the ground and robbed early Friday near the uptown campus, according to a crime alert issued by the university.
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Wayne County | Morningside residents march through neighborhood to protest crime, dumping | The Detroit News

Wayne County | Morningside residents march through neighborhood to protest crime, dumping | The Detroit News: "Community activists saw it as a battle of good over evil in an effort to take back neighborhoods from squatters and criminals as they took to the streets Saturday on the east side of Detroit.
More than two dozen people, accompanied by police, marched through the Morningside subdivision in Detroit on an "anti-crime walk" sponsored by the Next Detroit Neighborhood initiative and the Detroit Police Department's Eastern District.
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Friday, September 23, 2011

SpotCrime.com: former Philadelphia resident turns tragedy into data — Technically Philly

SpotCrime.com: former Philadelphia resident turns tragedy into data — Technically Philly: Currently, SpotCrime tracks some 500 feeds, but, as Drane says, “it fluctuates because [while] many cities are becoming open with their data… some are moving their data behind [other] proprietary systems.”