American violent crime rates reach historic lows

wissa

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Report this Jun. 11 2012, 10:54 pm

for all those people who like to tell us the world is going to hell in a hand basket


 


FBI: Violent crime rates in the US drop, approach historic lows
By Andrew Mach, msnbc.com

Violent crime rates in the U.S. are reaching historic lows, according to new FBI data released Monday.


Instances of murder declined overall by 1.9 percent from 2010 figures, while rape, robbery and aggravated assault declined by 4 percent nationwide, according to records from more than 14,000 law-enforcement agencies around the country, FBI spokesman Bill Carter told msnbc.com.




The number of property crimes also registered a 0.8-percent drop, motor-vehicle thefts declined by 3.3 percent, and arson was down by 5 percent.


Although the findings, released in the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, represent a seemingly small decline in crime overall, they aren’t just a blip. Rather, criminologists say, the decline is part of larger downward trend and the result of a series of changes that have contributed to a more peaceful society.













 











This is actually a pretty significant drop, which is fascinating because we’d normally expect crime to go up when we’re in an economic downturn,” Gary LaFree, a criminology professor at the University of Maryland, told msnbc.com, adding that the U.S. is experiencing the lowest crime levels since World War II.


According to FBI analysis, the homicide drop would mean that nearly 280 fewer Americans were murdered last year, which would be the lowest homicide death toll since the mid-1950s.


 


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Data's Girl

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Report this Jun. 11 2012, 11:10 pm

That's not at all, what the media wants us to believe. They make it sound like there's a 50% chance we'll be murdered in our beds. *sigh*


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Report this Jun. 12 2012, 10:28 am

For those who won't believe specific media sites, here is the direct link to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports page: http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr


 


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Report this Jun. 12 2012, 10:00 pm

That is a total load. Some people obviously have been under a rock not to know the truth.  Just more bs propaganda est


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