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United States News Title: FBI: Violent Crime Rate In The U.S. Drops For Third Year In A Row The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released preliminary data that indicates, for the third year in a row, that the rate of violent crime in the United States is down. It appears that property crime also declined, for the seventh straight year. The FBI’s final figures will not be available until the fall, but the Bureau’s just-released “Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, January to December 2009” shows some fairly significant decreases—5.5% for violent crime and 4.9% for property crime, as reported to the FBI by 13,237 law enforcement agencies from around the country that provided at least six months of data. Following are some more top line numbers from the report: All four categories of violent crime declined overall compared to 2008: robbery, 8.1% decline; murder, 7.2% decline; aggravated assault, 4.2% decline; and forcible rape, 3.1% decline. Violent crime declined 4% in metropolitan counties and 3% in non-metropolitan counties. The largest decrease in murders—7.5 percent—was in cities with populations ranging from 500,000 to 999,999. The only increases in murders were found in cities with populations ranging between 25,000 and 49,999 (up 5.3 percent) and also in non-metropolitan counties (up 1.8 percent). All overall categories of property crime also decreased when compared to 2008. Motor vehicle theft was down 17.2%; larceny-theft, down 4.2%; and burglaries, down 1.7%. Motor vehicle theft, which experienced the largest decrease in a single property crime category by far, fell significantly in all four regions of the country—down 18.5% in the Midwest; down 17.5% in both the Northeast and the West; and down 16.3% in the South. Arson declined across the board, also, with reported decreases across all population groups and all four regions of the country — an 11.6% decline in the West; a 10.6% decline in the South; a 9.2% decline in the Midwest; and an 8.6% decline in the Northeast. The report also contains individual 2008 and 2009 figures for all major crimes — murder, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft and arson — by cities with populations of 100,000 or more. The FBI releases the preliminary numbers in order to get the information as quickly as possible into the hands of those who need it most — like local law enforcement and community leaders who are in positions to implement effective crime strategies. However, the FBI does not offer in-depth analysis of the data, but instead prefers to leave that to criminologists, state and local law enforcement agencies and other experts. Despite the preliminary indications of significant decreases in 2009 crime levels, law enforcement agencies around the country — including the FBI — are adamant that the agencies have not lessened efforts to investigate such crimes. The FBI also affirmed that law enforcement agencies around the country will continue to work with one another to develop strategies to combat and prevent violence and crime in all of our communities. The FBI’s preliminary 2009 crime statistics are available for viewing online at the agency’s Website, www.fbi.gov.
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Bet it jumps this year.
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