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Low concentrations of relocated public-housing residents don't increase crime

Most Chicago and Atlanta neighborhoods absorbed relocated public-housing residents without experiencing extra crime. Citywide, both Chicago and Atlanta experienced a small but statistically significant reduction in violent crime related to the public-housing transformations.

DHS halts Secure Communities expansion in Alabama

The Homeland Security Department halted expansion in December of the Secure Communities program in Alabama partly due to federal litigation against a tough anti-illegal immigration state law, said

U.S. inmate population declines slightly

The inmate population in federal and state prisons declined in 2010 for the first time since 1972, finds a December 2011 bulletin (.pdf) from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. A population of

'Cyber war? Not!' says U.K. professor

Cyber war has not happened, is not happening and likely won't happen, says a paper published Oct. 5 in the Journal of Strategic Studies. Its author, Thomas Rid, a reader at King's College London,

Lewis: Cyber attacks are rare

Hyperbole over the term "cyber attack" has led to a misapprehension that they are frequent, says James Andrew Lewis, director of the Center for Strategic and International Studies' technology and