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Following the links we get the real percentages:
- sex crimes: 9%
- homocide: 10%
- assault/robbery/burglary: 14%

Those are the violent crimes. Then
- non-violent property crimes: 36%

And finally police busybodying and misc:
- drug prohibition: 24%
- weapons charge: 5%
- other: 2%

I've put this elsewhere in the thread but Apple seems to think they can provide plenty of stuff from icloud to law enforcement. The icloud stuff is encrypted with a passcode known to Apple:

http://www.apple.com/privacy/d...

This LEO guide seems to back that up:
http://manhattanda.org/sites/d...

So if it was in icloud, presumably they have it already, because Apple says "we can give you the icloud stuff, because we can access it". The locally encrypted stuff is locally encrypted, however- so presumably they want access to that.

NO!

If he had it on icloud, Apple could turn it over. The icloud backups are encrypted BY APPLE.

Check page 4:
www.apple.com/privacy/docs/legal-process-guidelines-us.pdf

Here's some guidelines:
http://manhattanda.org/sites/d...

There's a part where the document sort of complains that users aren't required to back everything up to icloud, because they can just ask for anything in icloud at all and get it in plaintext immediately (as documented by the first link).

If you promise to encrypt "hunter2" your end with AES-256, is it encrypted? Sure, but it's also here on plaintext, in transit, and if asked, you could certainly retrieve it. Even though it's clearly my password that you can't see :P

i once went to three police stations to denounce a fraudster, who i had phone, name, address and several victims for. all three police stations turned me away. one told me it's not crime, as people handed their money voluntarily, so it's actually just a civil case. he was later in the news for being arrested. http://manhattanda.org/whatsnew/press/2003-04-23.shtml -- i don't really know what's the deal, but i did notice these cases are hard to prosecute. i'll never forget hanging out with sultan al-sabah as he trailed japanese girls, and later trying to get money back from the royal fraudster.

The NYPD is one of the absolute best police departments in the world. Their resources rival the FBI and probably eclipse the military of smaller nations. NYC, being the financial capital of the world, has jurisdiction of all dollar denominated currency transactions. they occur in Manhattan via peering relationships through intermediary banks.

here is a recent example of the long arm of the manhattan da:

http://manhattanda.org/whatsnew/press/2009-04-07.shtml

It's like the the people who abused the ATMs in New York after 9/11. When they made the first withdrawal and saw that their balance didn't decline, they should have called the bank and reported it. Nothing gave them the right to keep making withdrawals. If I leave me door unlocked, it may make me an idiot, but it doesn't give some dude the right to come in to my house, and take something and walk out the door, even if you come right back in and put it back.