Nation: FBI finds first overall crime rise in 9 years, official says

http://www.nando.net ^ | June 23, 2002 | By CHRISOPHER NEWTON, Associated Press

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

WASHINGTON (June 23, 2002 4:37 p.m. EDT) - The number of murders in the United States rose by 3.1 percent last year as police departments nationwide reported an overall increase in major crimes for the first time in a decade, a law enforcement official said.

The official, speaking on condition of anonymity about contents of an annual report being released Monday by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, said the document will reflect more robberies, burglaries and car thefts.

Overall, major crimes were up in 2001 by 2 percent from 2000, the official said Saturday.

Statistics from the report were reported Sunday by The Washington Post, which said it had obtained a copy.

The newspaper said the latest release shows crime reports in suburban areas overall were up 2.2 percent.

Regionally, only the Northeast showed a drop in crime, it said. The largest increase was in the West, followed by the South and Midwest, the newspaper said.

The FBI report excluded the more than 3,000 deaths from the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Citing the report, the Post said had those deaths been counted as homicides, the number of murders would have increased by 26 percent from 2000.

The reversal of nine years of declining crime numbers is certain to generate considerable interest in Congress, as well among the law enforcement community.

Moreover, it comes at a time the FBI is shifting from a focus on traditional crimes in favor of efforts to track down terrorists.

Criminologists have been warning for some time that surges in the numbers of teenagers and released prisoners, along with recent economic declines, threatened a return to rising crime.

The Post said most of the increase in 2001 was driven by jumps in various property crimes, led by car thefts at 6 percent, while the overall number of violent crimes rose by less than 1 percent.

It said, however, that the number of crimes rose in every category except aggravated assault. Crime experts said the rises in murders and robberies were particularly alarming because of the severe impact they have on neighborhoods and communities.

Homicides increased sharply in many U.S. cities last year, including a jump of 67 percent in Boston and double-digit percentage spikes in Houston, Atlanta, St. Louis and Phoenix, the newspaper said. Murders also increased at smaller rates in Chicago and Los Angeles but continued to decline in New York City, excluding the victims of the World Trade Center attack.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

Crime experts said the rises in murders and robberies were particularly alarming because of the severe impact they have on neighborhoods and communities.

These are either well hidden crimes or someone is full of bull splatter

[savedbygrace]

FBI finds first overall crime rise in 9 years, official says

Translation: We want more money.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Could this merely be a result of more honest reporting under the Bush Administration, compared with the statistical manipulations as directed by the Clinton White House?

[Ms Daisy Meme]

Could this merely be a result of more honest reporting under the Bush Administration, compared with the statistical manipulations as directed by the Clinton White House?

No! No!, the citizenries was ever so peaceful and law abiding, so filled with their love of clinton, them was. But Bush he'll be driven even little ol' ladies to beat up anyone who gets in their way. Better elect another demo’ crack quick! quick!

[umgud]

Crime is rampant in big cities. Not just in total numbers, but also in "per capita" numbers.
Failed education is rampant in big cities.
Welfare and poverty is also rampant in big cities.
The largest concentration of aids is in the big cities.
The largest concentration of union membership is in big cities.

Shall I go on?

The largest pecentage of democrat voters are in big cities. Dems own and control the big cities.

[GailA]

The do gooders have been hollering big time about the high level of incarceration of inmates especially minority inmates in the past couple of years. And the gubermint has been squalling about the HIGH cost of incarcerating so many inmates. SO they've been letting more of them out than usual. The more felons on the streets instead of behind bars..you get MORE crime. DUH!Maybe it should be 3 strikes and your dead. YOU CAN'T REHABILITATE morally corrupt people with prison programs.

Only Christ Jesus can change hearts.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

The largest pecentage of democrat voters are in big cities. Dems own and control the big cities

BINGO

[mrsmith]

"the overall number of violent crimes rose by less than 1 percent. "

Per-capita, they probably dropped about two percent.

[ImphClinton]

Recessions always cause an increase in crime. Many people feel they have no other way to survive. Others simply have too much time on their hands. Lack of money causes more domestic disputes. Even people doing drugs find it harder to steal what they need to survive.

[Japedo]

Thanks for the Ping AP!

IMO, I think the fact that illegals Vote also contributes. Massive amounts of Vote fraud of all sorts. IMHO.. Thanks for the heads up though!! :) Live Free or Die Trying

[Katya]

Hmmm....all those new gun laws aren't working I guess...or they ARE working and the proof is no one can stop crime anymore.

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

What message does the government send when it forbids pilots to be armed?
What message does the government send when it refuses to overturn the Brady Bill?
Criminals now see that regardless of which party is in control that citizens are still denied the right to bear arms.

[respublica1776]

Murder rose 3.1 percent... No correlation with the number of immigrants (legal or illegal), huh?

[robertpaulsen]

Exactly. What's changed over the last nine years? But if people correctly point out that it's the tanking economy they can't promote their agenda ("more gun control", "more money for education", etc.) as a solution.

[TLI]

Murder rose 3.1 percent... No correlation with the number of immigrants (legal or illegal), huh?

Bingo.  Also consider that the FBI is now being threatened with disenfranchisement by changing it's function from "crime fighting" (read recording crime details after the fact) to anti-terrorism (glorified baggage inspectors).   This will most certainly require a "new breed" of FBI agent and will put a lot of agents out to pasture before full retirement.   Crime on the rise according to FBI stats?  Is anyone really surprised by this?

[anniegetyourgun]

LOL....welcome to FR.

[twntaipan]

Absolutely--the FBI under Klintoon understood that to "live long and prosper" in their careers, they had to do everything they could to contribute to the euphoria.

[anniegetyourgun]

Yep....can't help but notice that social problems are at their worst in areas where lib/dems run things. Their own solutions don't work and yet, they just keep doing the same things - expecting a different outcome. That is the definition of insanity.

[moonman]

I don't believe there were the decreases in crime which were reported a few years back. It was shown back then that there were 3 counties here in Florida (having large populations) which never submitted crime stats; most notably, Miami and Jacksonville area counties. Of course, we all know, no crime in those areas! lol

[Ms Daisy Meme]

LOL....welcome to FR.

 Thanks Anniegetyourgun for the welcome! 

I have been reading freerepublic for quite a while and love it.