Federal Bureau of Investigation

Background

Unemployment, interest rates, stresses—they're all on the increase as the finance is buffeted by a downturn. What's not rising, although, is crime, according to statistics amassed by the FBI that display brutal crimes and house crimes declined nationwide in 2008.

The facts and numbers, issued today in the FBI's yearly Crime in the United States publication, display brutal crimes declined for the second directly year, down 1.9 per hundred in 2008 from a year earlier. Each of the four classes of brutal crime infringements displayed declines, including killing and no negligent manslaughter (down 3.9 percent); aggravated assault (down 2.5 percent); and forcible rape (down 1.6 percent).

Property crimes on the entire declined for the sixth directly year, directed in large part by a 12.7 per hundred decreases in engine vehicle thefts. Burglaries (up 2 percent) and larceny-thefts (up .3 percent) displayed little increases from a year earlier. Losses from house crimes last year are treasured at more than $17 billion.

The statistics are supplied to the FBI by almost 17,800 regulation enforcement bureaus that take part voluntarily in our Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program.

Here are some of the reports approximates and findings:

Stolen vehicles accounted for $5.6 billion in house deficiency in 2008, but more than half of that number, $3.2 billion, was recovered;

62,807 arson infringements were described in 2008; the mean decrease per infringement was $16,015;

Regionally, the South—an locality that includes Maryland, Florida, and Texas—had the largest brutal crime rate, while the Northeast had the lowest;

The Western district of the U.S. had the biggest year-over-year decline in killings (down 6.8 percent), brutal crimes (down 2.9 percent), house crimes (down 3.2 percent), and engine vehicle thefts (16.9 percent);

Of the 14,180 killing victims in 2008, the age assembly 20-24 accounted for the most victims (2,428); and

The approximated number of forcible rapes (89,000) in ...