Violent crime drops 5.5 percent, FBI says [View All]

Source: MSNBC

Crime levels fell last year compared to 2009, continuing a downward trend that saw a 5.5 percent drop in the number of violent crimes last year and a 2.8 percent drop in the number of property crimes.

Figures released by the FBI Monday also showed that there were declines in all four categories of violent crime in 2010 and all categories for property crime went down as well.

"In a word, remarkable," said James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University. In Fox's view, the declines signify success for aggressive law enforcement and corrections programs and comprehensive crime prevention efforts. He said the crime levels could easily rise if the current environment of state and local budget cutting extends to the law enforcement measures that are working.

Violent crime last increased in 2005. Property crime last increased in 2002.


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43138270/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

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Now how about we end this War on Drugs (especially the failed War on Pot) and watch the violent crime rate drop even further.