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386. Go figure

By Joel Jacobsen

Two divisions of the Department of Justice have released crime figures this month.  The press release from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, reporting the results of the National Crime Victimization Survey, says: The violent crime rate in 2008—19.3 victimizations per 1,000 persons age 12 or older—was unchanged from the previous year, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) in the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice, announced today. ...  In 2008, an estimated 4.9 million violent crimes (rapes or sexual assaults, robberies, aggravated assaults and simple assaults) occurred... That's 1,930 victimizations per 100,000, of course.  Compare that to the figures released by the FBI 12 days later: An estimated 1,382,012 violent crimes occurred nationwide in 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on September 17, 2009 (boomark / email).