United States - Violent Crime Up For 1st Time In 5 Years But Not In New York
United States - Murders, robberies and aggravated assaults in the United States increased last year, spurring an overall rise in violent crime for the first time since 2001, according to FBI data.
Murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005. That would be the most since 1998 and the largest percentage increase in 15 years.
Despite the national numbers, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York were among several large cities that saw the number of murders drop.
Murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005. That would be the most since 1998 and the largest percentage increase in 15 years.
Despite the national numbers, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York were among several large cities that saw the number of murders drop.
posted by VOS IZ NEIAS @ 6/12/2006 10:16:00 AM
2 Comments:
At 11:28 AM,
Anonymous said…
CRIME IN THE JEWISH AREAS WENT UP ALOT
At 2:30 PM,
Anonymous said…
THE BOOKS ARE BEING COOKED.
Popeye Kelly (note the resemblance to the famous cartoon sailor) wants to run for mayor in '09 when Bloomie is term-limited out, and has put his commanders under pressure to keep the numbers heading downward -- even through there are now fewer cops around (would YOU take a job where you could easily get get killed for a lousy $25,000?) and they are less aggressive about going after the violent bad guys and maybe getting in trouble with the Civilian Complaint Review Board than they were back when Giuliani was mayor and strongly backed his officers up. The cops also wasting more precious crime-fighting time with giving out BS traffic tickets, as ordered, to keep the dough rolling in to City Hall. Kelly's boro chiefs in turn are leaning on the local precinct commanders to keep showing better results, and no captain is going to go to the weekly CompStat meeting showing crime spiking in his distrcit when everyone else is showing a decline -- so they're fudging the numbers by downgrading serious felony crimes to less-serious offenses that don't show up in their index, and by in some cases trying to talk crime victims out of filing crime reports (calling robberies "lost property", just so the numbers look good and Kelly can act like he's a big crime-fighter when he runs for Mayor.
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