By a Biometrica staffer London in the late 17th and 18th centuries was a rather challenging place to live in, going by one specific measure: the presence of gangs. Certain...
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By a Biometrica staffer This midterm election season, along with the state of the economy, the country’s crime rate has been under the scanner. Forty percent of U.S. registered voters...
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By a Biometrica staffer Is Organized Retail Crime (ORC) really a cause for concern? Isn’t it a victimless crime, as many perceive? The answer to the first question is an...
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By a Biometrica staffer Late last November, about 80 people barged into a Nordstrom department store in the East Bay Area city of Walnut Creek in California, stealing merchandise until...
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By a Biometrica staffer An overwhelming majority (over 90%) of all money mule transactions identified through the European Money Mule Actions are linked to cybercrime, the Europol says. What does...
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By a Biometrica staffer A two-day global online virtual assets conference — co-organized by INTERPOL, Europol, and the Basel Institute on Governance — concluded with a call to action on...
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By Aara Ramesh In an earlier story in this series on sports betting, we wrote about how just as there have been wagers (legal or otherwise) placed on sporting outcomes...
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By a Biometrica staffer Cultural property crime continued unabated throughout the global Covid-19 pandemic, and in some cases even surged to new heights, according to INTERPOL’s 2020 Assessing Crimes Against...
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By a Biometrica staffer The Global Organized Crime Index paints a “worrying picture of the reach, scale and impact of organized crime in 2020.” The data driven analytics tool evaluated 193 United...
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By a Biometrica staffer Evidence in the alleged murder of a federal security officer in Oakland was destroyed by four Northern California members affiliated with the far right boogaloo movement,...
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