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Monday June 4, 2007
Violent crime on the rise in the US: FBI
AFP
Violent crime rose for the second year running in 2006 across the
United States, in a worrying trend overturning more than a decade of
successful crime-fighting efforts, the FBI reports.
The annual report released Monday by the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) showed that violent crime -- murder, forcible
rape, robbery, and aggravated assault -- rose by 1.3 percent between
January and December of 2006, after a 2.3 percent increase in 2005.
Robberies were up a steep six percent.
However preliminary figures, compiled from law enforcement agencies
across the country, found that property crimes -- including burglary,
larceny-theft, and motor vehicle thefts -- were down last year by 2.9
percent.
The crime data is compiled by law enforcement agencies across the
United States, and then submitted to federal authorities for analysis.
The FBI was due to release more comprehensive crime statistics in
September.
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