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More great news on crime rates from the FBI

By Douglas A. Berman

Thanks to The Crime Report, I just saw this exciting new press release from the FBI, which is titled "The Latest Stats Show a Continuing Decline in Crime."  Here are specifics: We?ve just released our first peek into crime in 2010 ? with a snapshot of the first six months of the year. The early returns are encouraging. According to the Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, January-June, 2010, the nation saw a 6.2 percent decrease in the number of reported violent crimes and a 2.8 percent decrease in the number of reported property crimes compared to data for the same time frame during 2009. The report specifically covers the violent crimes of murder, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault ... and the property crimes of burglary, larceny-theft, and motor vehicle theft...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 20, 2010 (boomark / email).