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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (122343)	4/29/2010 6:18:27 PM
From: Broken_Clock	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Hardly something to get excited about.... --- America’s kidnapping capital? Phoenix numbers decline in ‘09 Reported by: Associated Press Last Update: 12/27/2009 11:34 am PHOENIX (AP) -- Abductions in Phoenix, known as America's kidnapping capital, were on track to decrease modestly in 2009, said police who attributed the expected decline to better efforts at targeting the drug and immigrant smugglers who are committing a majority of those crimes. The latest figures show Phoenix had 302 kidnappings in the first 11 months of 2009, when the city recorded an average of 27 abductions each month. The city had reached a 10-year high in 2008 with 359 kidnappings. The expected decline in 2009 would mark the first decrease since 2005, when the city had 228 kidnappings.