SOME GOOD NEWS Crime is Declining

FBI.gov ^ | 01/12/09 | n/a

[Cindy]

SNIPPET: "For the second year in a row, our Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report shows that violent crimes, property crimes, and arsons are declining.

Nationwide, violent crime fell 3.5 percent and property crime 2.5 percent during the first six months of the year; the full 2008 report will be available in the fall.

Each of the specific crimes measured by the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program—murder and non-negligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson—decreased during the first half of 2008 as compared to the same time frame in 2007.

Here are some of the report’s highlights:

Violent crimes in all population groups declined: murder by 4.4 percent, aggravated assault by 4.1 percent, forcible rape by 3.3 percent, and robbery by 2.2 percent.

On a regional basis, law enforcement in all four parts of the country reported a drop in violent crimes: 6.0 percent in the Midwest, 5.0 percent in the West, 2.9 percent in the Northeast, and 1.5 percent in the South. Overall, property crimes fell in the Midwest (4.7 percent), the West (6.1 percent), and the South (0.4 percent).

Among population groupings, each category of property crime was down: motor vehicle thefts by 12.6 percent, larceny-theft by 1.2 percent, and burglaries by 0.8 percent.

Arsons dropped in all four regions of the country and among all population groups (with the exception of cities with populations of 250,000-499,999, where it actually increased 2.0 percent).

But there were some specific increases noted:

Murder and non-negligent manslaughter were up in mid-sized cities with populations of 50,000-99,999 (3.3 percent), along with smaller cities of populations under 10,000 (9.8 percent).

In the Northeast, forcible rapes were up slightly (0.6 percent), as were burglaries (2.7 percent) and larceny-theft (2.9 percent) over the same six-month period in 2007.

Cities with populations of one million-plus also recorded a 3.4 percent jump in forcible rapes.

Property crimes rose in the Northeast by 1.7 percent.

The South saw an increase in burglaries (0.6 percent) and larceny-thefts (0.5 percent)."

Read More at the link.

[elpinta]

Ohhhhh, gun control is working.... or, wait, perhaps ‘shall issue’ is???

[blam]

I do believe more crooks are getting shot these days too. Peope have had enough!!

[Loud Mime]

The criminals’ new jobmeister takes office next week.

[Hoodat]

Bush’s fault.

[DakotaRed]

Perhaps, the calm before the storm?

[Cindy]

OPINION:

No, not really.

It could be a variety of factors in my opinion, such as more armed citizens, more security services, more civilian patrols and neighborhood watch programs, after 9/11 increased technologies, and etc..

[Cindy]

It could be or it it might be there is more reporting distributed broadly via the Internet regarding people protecting themselves and their property.

[gondramB]

Thanks for posting this

[Cindy]

You’re welcome gondramB.

[Ajnin]

I don’t think crime is going down. I think it’s going up. We have governors selling senatorial seats, Senators collecting bribes, Politicians of all stripes engaged in all manor of criminal activity and people really believe this garbage about a drop in crime? If the f**ckers in the highest offices of the land are engaged in crminal activity what do you thing is happening on the streets?

[Cindy]

I understand what you are saying Ajnin.

The leaders we elect are supposed to represent us.

Do they represent my values?
For the most part, no.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Wait until amnesty for illegal immigrants officially becomes legal! The crime rate will definitely go up big time, just from such a foolish political move!

[Thermalseeker]

These figures are for the first half of 2008. Wait until we see the last half numbers. Personally, I had $2500 worth of avgas stolen from my underground tanks sometime last July. My wife works a part time job at a department store and she tells me that shoplifting has been on the increase in the past 6 months and people seem to be getting bolder. She's been working this type of job for over 12 years, so what she is seeing is real time, not six month old news.

[DH]

Crime going down? Maybe for those sailing in the good ship lollipop it is in their own minds or their sheepish blind belief in what the government propaganda says.

For the rest of us in the real world, crime is certainly going up more and more each day. Why? For two reasons: The burden of proof has reached a level in which it is almost impossible to really convict anyone. It has changed from “a reasonable doubt” to “a positively unequivocal fact.” And the second is that we have become a nation of “sensitive” people and actually think that we can change the spots on a leopard by simply being easy on them and hoping they, in turn, will become model citizens after that.

The common citizen with common sense knows it’s not a matter of IF you will experience a crime, it a matter of WHEN you will experience the product of our liberal society!