VIOLENT CRIME

Violent Crime

Violent Crime

(Letter to the Editor)

With this letter, I would like to divert your attention towards increasing crime rate in our area. A major concern is that Native Americans had a violent victimization rate of 124 per 1,000 populations for all persons over the age of twelve in the years 2004 to 2008 (Greenfeld, Smith, 2008). This rate is nearly two-and-one-half times the rate of 50 per 1,000 for all races in the United States, nearly two-and-one-half times the rate of 49 per 1,000 for whites, and more than two times the rate of the next highest group (African Americans, ...