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From the Washington Politics & Policy Desk
Published 6/24/2002 11:41 AM
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID...02-111809-7735r

WASHINGTON, June 24 (UPI) -- Serious crime in the United States rose last year for the first time in a decade, according to preliminary figures released by the FBI Monday.

The figures show a 2 percent increase in the Crime Index, which measures the seven major offenses.

Murder leapt by more than 26 percent, driven solely by the terror attacks of Sept. 11.

However, serious crime would have risen even without including the events of Sept. 11, and the Northeast was the only area of the country to show a decrease in crime, once the terror attacks are discounted.

Besides murder, those major offenses are forcible rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny-theft and motor vehicle theft.

The Crime Index is measured by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which receives crime statistics from law enforcement agencies across the country.

Final figures for 2001 will be available this fall, the FBI said.

Including the offenses surrounding the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, preliminary data show that the 2001 Crime Index still registers a 2 percent increase over the 2000 figure.

The volume of violent crime increased 0.6 percent, and the murder volume increased 26.4 percent.

However, the FBI said the figures reflecting the offenses from Sept. 11 are not included in the following data because they are statistical outliers that will affect current and future crime trends.

Preliminary figures for 2001, excluding the Sept. 11 data mentioned above, suggest that the volume of violent crime offenses remained relatively unchanged -- a 0.3-percent increase -- when compared with data for 2000.

However, the volume of property crime offenses rose by 2.2 percent.

Among violent crimes, robbery showed the greatest increase, 3.9 percent. Murder rose 3.1 percent, and forcible rape showed a minimal increase of 0.2 percent.

Aggravated assault, which is the most frequently occurring violent crime in the Index, was the only violent offense to show a decrease from the 2000 volume -- 1.4 percent.

In the property crime category, motor vehicle theft increased 5.9 percent, and burglary rose 2.6 percent. Arson and larceny-theft increased 2.0 percent and 1.4 percent, respectively.

Collectively, law enforcement agencies in three of the nation's four geographical regions reported increases in their Crime Index totals.

Agencies in the West recorded a 4.5 percent increase; agencies in the South, a 1.9 percent increase; and agencies in the Midwest, a 0.9 percent increase.

Northeastern agencies collectively noted an overall Crime Index decrease of 1.2 percent.

The volume of violent crime rose in the Southern region and the Western region, increasing 1.7 percent and 1.0 percent, respectively.

Conversely, violent crimes fell in the Northeastern region by 2.3 percent and in the Midwestern region by 1.0 percent.

Three of the four regions had increases in the violent crime of murder: 8.0 percent in the West, 7.7 percent in the Northeast, and 4.1 percent in the Midwest.

The Southern region had the only decrease in murder, down 2.1 percent from 2000 to 2001.

In property crime, the Western region experienced a 5.0-percent increase in volume; the Southern region, a 1.9-percent increase; and the Midwest, a 1.1-percent increase.

The only regional decline for property crime was reported by agencies in the Northeast at 1.0 percent.

Crime Index offenses increased in all city population groups, with the largest increase, 3.9 percent, recorded in cities with populations of 250,000 to 499,999, and the smallest increase, 0.8 percent, reported for cities with under 10,000 inhabitants.

The Crime Index total also rose in the Nation's suburban counties, 2.4 percent, and in the rural counties, 0.6 percent.

Nearly 17,000 city, county, and state law enforcement agencies voluntarily submit data to the FBI's UCR Program. The comprehensive data are published annually in Crime in the United States.

The complete preliminary annual Uniform Crime Report is accessible from the FBI's Web site at fbi.gov.

Copyright © 2002 United Press International

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God bless,
Kindgo

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