Many of the 400 crime experts said they left the discussion with more questions than conclusions.

Its members are experienced police officers, crime experts, analysts and lawyers.

All this makes the investigation profoundly difficult and deeply frustrating, law enforcement officials and crime experts say.

Raffles encounters a society of crime experts, who call themselves The Criminologists'.

It is almost unheard of, organized crime experts said, for the Mafia to attack an uninvolved relative, especially a woman.

In fact, this unassuming, genial man may be *the* federal computer crime expert.

But crime experts say the comfort such predictions provide is, in this case, false.

The new report, some crime experts say, suggests that the answer is no.

Another possibility is a dispute over public works projects, which lawyers and other organized crime experts call a common source of revenue for criminal groups.

Although many crime experts say it is impossible to link police tactics directly to murder rates, frustrated residents are pressuring city officials to do something.