http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/abstract/cv06.htm
Presents estimates of rates and levels of personal and property crime victimization for 2006. Discloses that males experienced higher levels of victimization than females and that violent and property crime rates in urban and suburban areas were stable between 2005 and 2006. From the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
http://www.defenselink.mil/pubs/BSR_2007_Baseline.pdf
Provides a comprehensive listing of sites owned or used by the Department of Defense. Organized by state/country and then by military organization. From the Defense Department.
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d0728.pdf
Reports on the purposes for which eminent domain can be and has been used, the process states and localities use to acquire land, how the use of eminent domain has affected individuals and communities, and the changes 29 state legislatures have made to laws governing the use of eminent domain since a controversial 2005 Supreme Court decision. From the Government Accountability Office.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=04-108
Supreme Court decision that affirmed the power of local governments to seize private property for public purposes. Officials of New London, Connecticut want to condemn properties in a neighborhood of modest homes to create a privately developed hotel/office complex to boost economic growth
