Businesses lost $30 billion a year to organized retail crime, according to The National Retail Federation. Several Cook County enterprises are teaming up to get crime data and investigation material out to retailers in seconds, not days.
Unintentional injuries, especially car crashes or falls, are much more common in rural areas than cities, giving the metropolises a statistical edge when it comes to safety.
Thousands of well-wishers swarmed around the Pope's vehicle in Brazil, and while the head of the Catholic Church remained calm, his assistants were less than pleased.
The missing communication devices, worth millions of dollars, could potentially allow criminals to listen in to U.S. Marshals' plans for protecting witnesses or federal judges.