Crime rate in Columbia relatively flat since 2001

Monday, March 29, 2010 | 12:01 a.m. CDT; updated 9:03 a.m. CDT, Monday, March 29, 2010

COLUMBIA — Crime has been a divisive topic in campaign rhetoric leading up to the April 6 municipal election. An initiative on the ballot, Proposition 1, would place surveillance cameras downtown and has helped push crime to the forefront of community discussion.

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