FBI: Violent Crime On The Rise

Report Shows Violent Crimes Up By 1.3%, But In Some Cities It Jumped By More Than 10%

(CBS)  For the second year in a row, the FBI's Uniform Crime Report — scheduled to be published Monday — shows violent crime on the rise: Overall, violent crimes were up 1.3 percent. Robbery is up 6 percent and homicide is up .3 per cent.

But those numbers only tell part of the story, reports CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston.

“I think you have to look at real cities,” says Chuck Wexler, of the police executive research forum. “I think you have to look at places like Cincinnati and Indianapolis and Milwaukee, Boston, Oakland, Calif., — real cities — and you'll see there’s been real significant increases.”

Wexler heads a research group that tracks crime in medium and large cities.

In those locations, between 2004 and 2006, homicides increased 10.2 percent and robbery was up 12.2 percent.

Wexler points to several factors for the increase.

“I think it's people coming out of prison in record numbers, I think it's more guns on the street.”

The increase in crime is a dramatic reversal from the 1990s when violent crime was at all time lows, dropping 26 percent. The murder rate went down 34 percent. The reduction is credited in part to a federally funded program called C.O.P.S. that added 100,000 police officers to America’s streets.

Democrats in Congress blame the latest crime spike on Bush administration budget cuts in the police hiring program.

On Friday, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales insisted the numbers do not indicate a national trend.

“No one answer, no one approach, no one government agency can solve the violent crime problems that these communities face,” he said at a news conference. “Each city’s solutions must be tailored to its particular situation.”

Gonzales says violent crime impact teams will be sent to four more cities, bringing the total to 29 receiving special federal assistance. But Democrats want the Bush administration to restore federal funds, so cities can hire more police officers.

[yesult]

"I'm simply tired of the Republican ideologues throwing dirt at Democrats and vice-versa, when neither is taking a serious stance to ensure all citizens are included in the economic equation of prosperity instead of a selected few."

Agree, Insted of the blame game let's se something done about it.


"I'm appalled at the so-called American patriots who insensitively and selfishly disregard other citizens as nothing more than tumorous growths that need to be circumcised, while upholding their malignant narcissistic belief of superiority."

That seems to be the American way now.

[WarHippy1%]

I live 20 miles from Mesa Arizona. I haven't seen any increase to warrant FBI teams here. I did a crime search and saw a MONEY top 100 cities survey. Mesa WAS number 3, I got a print screen saved showing it, a half hour later, I came back and Sugar Loaf, Texas was number 3. Sorry Feds, Ya didn't hide the facts soon enough. With Mesa voted number three best cities to live, there must be another reason to send the Feds here. What is it? More of Senor Gonzalez made up stories. When is Congress gonna do something about him??OH, the crimes that increased in Mesa were Rapes and car thefts. Does the FBI consider those safe enough to investigate??

[WarHippy1%]

I live 20 miles from Mesa Arizona. I haven't seen any increase to warrant FBI teams here. I did a crime search and saw a MONEY top 100 cities survey. Mesa WAS number 3, I got a print screen saved showing it, a half hour later, I came back and Sugar Loaf, Texas was number 3. Sorry Feds, Ya didn't hide the facts soon enough. With Mesa voted number three best cities to live, there must be another reason to send the Feds here. What is it? More of Senor Gonzalez made up stories. When is Congress gonna do something about him??OH, the crimes that increased in Mesa were Rapes and car thefts. Does the FBI consider those safe enough to investigate??

[WarHippy1%]

I live 20 miles from Mesa Arizona. I haven't seen any increase to warrant FBI teams here. I did a crime search and saw a MONEY top 100 cities survey. Mesa WAS number 3, I got a print screen saved showing it, a half hour later, I came back and Sugar Loaf, Texas was number 3. Sorry Feds, Ya didn't hide the facts soon enough. With Mesa voted number three best cities to live, there must be another reason to send the Feds here. What is it? More of Senor Gonzalez made up stories. When is Congress gonna do something about him??OH, the crimes that increased in Mesa were Rapes and car thefts. Does the FBI consider those safe enough to investigate??

[WarHippy1%]

I live 20 miles from Mesa Arizona. I haven't seen any increase to warrant FBI teams here. I did a crime search and saw a MONEY top 100 cities survey. Mesa WAS number 3, I got a print screen saved showing it, a half hour later, I came back and Sugar Loaf, Texas was number 3. Sorry Feds, Ya didn't hide the facts soon enough. With Mesa voted number three best cities to live, there must be another reason to send the Feds here. What is it? More of Senor Gonzalez made up stories. When is Congress gonna do something about him??OH, the crimes that increased in Mesa were Rapes and car thefts. Does the FBI consider those safe enough to investigate??

[lightflow73]

Number 1: As long as there are companies producing arms, guns... somebody will buy and use these guns. Why not stop the production of guns ? Number 2: As long as there are people not having enough to live, not having enough money to pay rent, food... they will have to get the money from somewhere - and here, the social system, the governement is clearly not doing the right things. If those people would have enough money for food, enough to live normally, if the governement would make sure they life normal, they would not need to turn into criminals.
Number 3: As long as there is violence and crime on TV & movies, as long somebody gonna copy it into the real live. 10 years ago, there was not so much criminals sitcoms on TV. Now it is. And what is the result ? See the statistics.
Number 4: As long as the governement is not taking care of the people who have no jobs, they turn easier into streetgangs. In other countries, the governement put those people into learning-programs where they can learn new things to find better jobs faster. If other countries can do it, USA should be able to do it too, right ?

[gunownerdan]

Many of the cities that have experienced the largest rise in violent crime also have very strict gun control laws.
Criminals prefer unarmed victims!
www.a-human-right.com

[toolmangler-2009]

I'm appalled at the so-called American patriots who insensitively and selfishly disregard other citizens as nothing more than tumorous growths that need to be circumcised, while upholding their malignant narcissistic belief of superiority.


Posted by kailumego1 at 04:17 PM : Jun 03, 2007


Maybe it would work better like this,
I am tired of our patriotic wannabe's that don't care for anything but their own wants.

[toolmangler-2009]

Someone please take kailumego1's thesaurus away;0p

Posted by darkmeat4 at 07:32 PM : Jun 03, 2007

He would probably google it anyway. maybe if we were to wax more verbose than he.... "Prone as we are to a pretiliction to predicting possible precipitation..... Nah! nevah mind.

[kailumego1]

It's always easy for Republican imperialist to argue it's unilateral rhetoric supporting economic hegemony for a few while millions are conveniently left out of the equation, it's for their own self-aggrandizement.

Crime has always been linked to poverty, unemployment, and social/class inequality, so therefore, it should not be a huge surprise that it continues to rise, especially as the "gulf" continues to increase between the rich, middle-class and poor.


I'm simply tired of the Republican ideologues throwing dirt at Democrats and vice-versa, when neither is taking a serious stance to ensure all citizens are included in the economic equation of prosperity instead of a selected few.

Most "multi-billionaires and millionaires", with the exception of "Oprah Winfrey", only care about their profit margins and appeasing the stockholders.


I'm appalled at the so-called American patriots who insensitively and selfishly disregard other citizens as nothing more than tumorous growths that need to be circumcised, while upholding their malignant narcissistic belief of superiority.