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As Property Crimes Increase, More Neighbors are on Patrol from the Christian Science Monitor Hard numbers on the rise in amateur crime fighters don't exist, but policing experts say the trend is noticeable. At the National Sheriffs Association (NSA), which runs some 26,000 Neighborhood Watch groups, activity has risen to nearly the levels of the winter of 2001, following 9/11. NSA crime prevention specialist Robbie Woodson links the uptick directly to the Congressional decision in 2007 to cut community policing grants by 68 percent, much of which had been aimed at low-level crime in transitional neighborhoods. Woodson says President Obama's inaugural call for "a new era of responsibility" took direct aim at what she sees as a widening gap – both perceived and real – between criminal activity and the ability of police to control it. More Michigan Sheriff’s Office Wins Statewide Award from The Associated Press via Yahoo! News For the seventh year in a row, the Muskegon County, Mich., Sheriff's Office Traffic Services Unit has won a cash award from the Michigan Association of Chiefs of Police. The sheriff's office was awarded $5,000 recently for placing first in its category for the 2008 MACP Award for Excellence in Traffic Safety. More Recession Causing Crime Rise from Reuters According to a report on Tuesday, U.S. Police chiefs say the recession is fueling a rise in crime and warn that cuts to their budgets could thwart their efforts to tackle it. The report also found 63 percent of the departments were making plans for overall cuts in their funding for the next fiscal year. More Grant Money Used to Solve Cold Cases from MSNBC Federal grant money has helped the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department solve two cold-case homicides. The money allowed for three new part-time investigators and an added full-time district attorney investigator. More Police Jury Against “Good-Time” Credit from The News Star Police jurors in Ouachita Parish, La. want to move prisoners move through the local justice system faster. Therefore, police jurors may lobby for changing a state law that allows pretrial detainees to earn additional "good-time" credit toward their sentences. More Study on Prisoners May Help Break the Cycle from The Mason Gazette Some studies estimate that two of every three prisoners who leave jail will be back there within three years. Mason psychology professor June Tangney hopes her research will help break this cycle of recidivism. More Obama Challenged to Move from War on Terror to Routine Vigilance from the Global Security Newswire As the recession crimps federal, state, and local budgets, no level of government can stay on a war footing forever. So, without letting security slide, President Obama must somehow convert his predecessor's "global war on terror" into a routine, sustainable function of governance. More U.S. Supreme Court to Decide if Statements are Admissible from The Minnesota Lawyer via LawOfficer.com The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments last week in a case considering whether a cellmate's statements obtained by an undercover informant after the right to counsel attaches can ever be admissible at trial, for impeachment purposes or other uses. More Prison Teleconferencing System Cuts Costs of Inmate Evaluations from The Star-Ledger Police across Middlesex County, N.J., saw the pattern. Suspects being taken to the county jail suddenly said they were suicidal, triggering a required trip to a hospital where two officers had to stay with the inmate until he was examined. That ended last November when a pilot "telepsychiatry" program began at the jail, providing mental health screenings on a television conference system with a doctor available at any hour, end ing time-consuming trips to hospitals and saving thousands of dollars in overtime costs. More U.S. Fingerprint Database on the Way, N.C. Sheriff Says from the News & Observer Detention officers using a new federal fingerprinting database are not acting as immigration agents, but they are participating in a system they will soon have no choice but to use, Orange County, N.C., Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass explained. The software allows jailers to confirm a suspect's identity by placing his fingerprints in a database that pulls information from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. Under this system, a search would take minutes instead of days. More Assisting Law Enforcement in Battling Cybercrime from MarketWatch With computer crimes ranging from fraud, child pornography and even terrorism ever on the rise, it is essential to the effectiveness of law enforcement that computer forensics technology keeps pace with computer technology. To compound this problem, computer forensic labs are continuously backlogged, and law enforcement agencies increasingly are forced to rely on in-house investigations to address the immediacy of computer-related crimes. Voom Technologies, a leader in computer forensics technology development, addresses both of these concerns with the just-released HardCopy 3 (HC3), a faster, upgraded and enriched version of their renowned HardCopy 2 computer forensics hard-drive duplicator. More

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