Rate of Violent Crime is Up, While Property Crimes are Down in 2015!
Posted on Jan 20, 2016 5:56am PST
The FBI’s
Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report reveals a mixed bag about whether our world was safer in 2015. This report
demonstrates overall declines in the number of property crimes reported
and overall increases in the number of violent crimes reported for the
first six months of 2015 when compared with figures for the first six
months of 2014.
Violent Crime
- All of the offenses in the violent crime category — murder and non-negligent
manslaughter, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery — showed increases
when data from the first six months of 2015 were compared with data from
the first six months of 2014.
- In cities with populations from 50,000 to 99,999 inhabitants, violent crime
was down 0.3%, and in cities with 500,000 to 999,999 in population, violent
crime decreased 0.1%. The largest increase in violent crime, 5.3%, was
noted in cities with 250,000 to 499,999 in population. Word to the wise—stay
out of big cities!
Property Crime
- In the property crime category, burglary offenses dropped 9.8%, and larceny-theft
offenses decreased 3.2% in the first six months of 2015 compared with
the same months from 2014.
- Each of the city population groups had decreases in the overall number
of property crimes.
- The West was the only region to show an increase (2.4%) in property crime.
Reports of these offenses declined 8.0% in the Northeast, 7.0% in the
Midwest, and 6.4% in the South.
https://www.fbi.gov/news/pressrel/press-releases/fbi-releases-preliminary-semiannual-crime-statistics-for-2015