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NIJ-JobCriminalRecords. Factual Innocence. Crime Databases and Statistics. 2007 FBI Uniform Crime ReportLook up crimes by state, classification, population group, etc. 2007 FBI Bank Robbery Statistics 2006 FBI Violent Crimes StatisticsReview nationally, by region, state, county, city, universities, etc. 2005 FBI Uniform Crime Report 2001 FBI Crime Statistics SummaryAlso available as a full-text document. Safest Cities ListA list of America's safest and most dangerous cities (as of December 2001). Sourcebook of Criminal Justice StatisticsFrom the State University of New York at Albany. Interpol Most Wanted "Red Notices" National Archive of Criminal Justice DataSearchable databases of 500+ criminal-justice data collections. Property Room: Stolen Property Lookup Crimenet.comA combined information service on criminal records, stolen property, missing persons, wanted persons, con artists and unsolved crimes.

PoliceForum.orgSite features cops from large jurisdictions and has done lots of stuff on police shootings, etc. PsychLaws: Tragedies DatabaseSearch by state. U.S. U.S. How the Future Crime Database Will Work" ­Crime stories, especially stories about violent cri­mes, are often at the top of local news broadcasts. The news anchor explains the gory details of the murder, gives some background information about the victim and details the progress that law enforcement has made toward solving the crime­.

But imagine if the news anchor instead said something like, "Today John Doe was arrested by law enforcement for the future crime of murdering his wife. " In the film "Minority Report," people with precognition (a form of ESP in which a person learns information about future events) provide a law enforcement department known as Pre-Crime with the names of both murderer and murder victim. Images relating to the murders are transferred to a computer so that officers can examine them to get more information. Instead of being arrested for crimes, people in the film are arrested for crimes that they would have committed.

Forum: Expanding DNA Databases is Problematic. Interview with Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli, authors of Genetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties. The following is an interview with Sheldon Krimsky and Tania Simoncelli, coauthors ofGenetic Justice: DNA Data Banks, Criminal Investigations, and Civil Liberties: Question: How are people’s privacy rights being compromised by expanding DNA databases for innocent arrestees? Sheldon Krimsky: Once a person’s DNA is in the national DNA database, that individual is faced with the following risks: a) he or she might be improperly implicated as a suspect if his/her DNA is left at a place that turns out to be a crime scene—i.e., by dropping a used cup; b) the family members of that person might unknowingly be implicated as suspects in the event that a “familial search” against the database results in a partial match with that individual’s DNA profile; and c) that innocent person might be stigmatized if police know that their DNA is on the national database—even if he/she was never convicted of a crime.

Q: Tell us more about the “familial” DNA searches. TS: No. TS: Not at all. NamUs - National Missing and Unidentified Persons System.