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According to the 2011 FBI uniform crime reports, with a population of 222, the City of Industry had 1,136 known property crimes, [72] giving it the highest average per-resident property crime rate (5.117) in California. The average property crime rate for the entire US that year was 0.029. [73] The same report indicates 44 violent crimes ...
[12] [13] Shakedowns: When a police officer is aware of a crime and the violator but accepts a bribe for not arresting the violator (Roebuck & Barker, 1973). "Fixing": Undermining criminal prosecutions by withholding evidence or failing to appear at judicial hearings, for bribery or as a personal favor.
In 2019, the state with the highest property crime rate was Louisiana, with a rate of 3,162.0 per 100,000, while the state with the lowest property crime rate was Massachusetts, with a rate of 1,179.8 per 100,000. [106] However, Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory of the United States, had a property crime rate of 702.7 per 100,000 in 2011 ...
Its property crime rate was higher, at almost 16 property crimes per 1,000 residents, though still lower than the national and state averages. There were 94 crimes per square mile in Orange, higher than the state average of 83 and national average of about 28. [45] 2020 data indicated that year after year [vague] crime had continually decreased ...
California was the first state to criminalize stalking in the United States in 1990 [89] as a result of numerous high-profile stalking cases in California, including the 1982 attempted murder of actress Theresa Saldana, [90] the 1988 massacre by Richard Farley, [91] the 1989 murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer, [92] and five Orange County ...
In the United States, the relationship between race and crime has been a topic of public controversy and scholarly debate for more than a century. [1] Crime rates vary significantly between racial groups; however, academic research indicates that the over-representation of some racial minorities in the criminal justice system can in part be explained by socioeconomic factors, [2] [3] such as ...
Since the 2000 US census, California has been known as the second state in US history (after Hawaii since its statehood in 1959) to become majority minority (it has since been joined by Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Maryland, and Georgia), and since 2014, the first state to have a Latino plurality (of any race). The media discussed the ...
Sexual assault is a crime defined as intentional sexual contact, characterized by use of force, physical threat or abuse of authority or when the victim does not or cannot consent. Sexual Assault includes: Rape; Non consensual Sodomy (oral or anal sex); Indecent Assault (unwanted, inappropriate sexual contact or fondling); and Attempts to ...