Apple's iPod linked to iCrime wave By Thomas Claburn 2 October 2007 11:10AM The popularity of the iPod and other portable media devices has driven the robbery rate higher, according to a report issued on Thursday by the Urban Institute, a non-profit policy research organization based in Washington, D.C. Citing FBI statistics, the report notes that violent crime increased for the first time in over a decade in 2005 and in 2006. Homicides and robberies rose while other violent crimes like rape and aggravated assaults, along with all types of property crime, continued to trend downward. "In this brief, we...