That was a report of a crime against the Imperium!

But experts say this may be due to increased reporting of a crime that historically has been underreported.

In contrast, the tone of reports of a crime carried out by members of the majority culture attempts to assuage fears and trivialize the crime.

He also disagreed with a major conclusion in the report: the idea that officers conduct most street searches on their own, without receiving a report of a crime.

He said after the report of a crime was taken it was forwarded to the desk officer at the precinct who puts it into the computer and assigns it to a detective.

On Saturday morning Officer Neri, who has nearly 12 years on the force and has never before fired his weapon, was conducting a routine patrol with his partner, not responding to a report of a crime.

In 1943 the committee issued its report; it determined racism to be a central cause of the riots, further stating that it was "an aggravating practice (of the media) to link the phrase zoot suit with the report of a crime."

The newspaper also has a section called The Police Log that contains almost every report of a crime in the Carmel area, often read with a quaint twist of humor by readers since the contents of the log are fairly innocuous.

Down the hall, a bronzed man with prominent cheekbones was performing a citizen's duty, filing a written eyewitness report of a crime - and mentally filing an unwritten eyewitness report on the plan and layout of Captain Braddock's control room.

Not only are victims, particularly of personal theft or burglary, usually reluctant to become entangled with the bureaucratic nightmare that can follow the reporting of a crime to the police, but it is extremely difficult to convict anyone who possesses either a good lawyer or 'influence'.