By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Animal cruelty cases will soon be tracked by the FBI. The USA Today reports that the bureau animal cruelty cases will be added to the Uniform Crime Report, which tracks other crimes such as murder, assault and burglary. “No longer will extremely violent cases be included in the ‘other offense’ category…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Violent crimes and property crimes in the U.S. dropped during January to June of this year compared to the same period last year, according to the FBI’s just-released Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report. The report showed that overall, violent crimes were down 6.4 percent in that period, and property crimes dipped…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com The only question is: What took so long? After much deliberation and consideration, the FBI’s Criminal Justice Advisory Board voted Tuesday to update the agency’s narrow definition of rape for its Uniform Crime Report, a definition that hadn’t been updated since 1929, Huffington Post reports. The crime report is often used…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Are rapes recorded accurately? Apparently not, which is why the the FBI is in the process of changing the definition of rape for the first time in 80 years, reports the Baltimore Sun. The Sun reports that critics have insisted the definition is too narrow, resulting in fewer stats and less…
