News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, January 08, 2007

Crime rises in spite of Operation Linebacker

By Louie Gilot / El Paso Times
Article Launched: 01/08/2007 12:00:00 AM MST

In September 2005, El Paso County Sheriff Leo Samaniego and other border sheriffs launched Operation Linebacker, a controversial initiative to beef up police presence on the border and control crime.

But a year later, the number of crimes in El Paso County has not declined -- it increased slightly -- statistics from the El Paso County Sheriff's Office showed.

Total reported crimes increased by 3.74 percent. Violent crimes, which are homicides, rapes, assaults and robberies, remained stable, while property crimes, such as burglaries, arson, theft and vehicle thefts increased by almost 8 percent between September 2005 and September 2006, compared with statistics from September 2004 to September 2005.

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