FBI: Violent Crime On The Rise

Murders, Robberies And Other Violent Crimes Nearing 5-Year Peak

(AP)  Violent crime rose nearly 2 percent last year, the FBI reported Monday in nationwide data that show a slightly higher increase than expected.

The number of big-city murders also increased, by 1.8 percent -- the same rate as homicides nationwide. Robberies and arson also rose in large population centers, but the number of rapes and car thefts dropped, FBI data show.

The new numbers confirm that crime rates continued on a two-year upward trend after a relative lull in violence between 2002 and 2004.

Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse cast the report as good news in the effort to combat gangs, guns and violence, pointing out that the rate of crimes per 100,000 people had declined to its lowest level in 30 years.

"While there's encouraging news in the latest crime rates from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program, violent crime remains a challenge for some communities," Roehrkasse said in a statement.

The Bush administration has pledged to spend $50 million this year to combat gangs and guns, and is pushing Congress for new laws to let the federal government better investigate and prosecute violent crime.

Overall, violent crime rose by 1.9 percent in 2006 -- slightly higher than the 1.3 percent increase reflected earlier this summer in preliminary FBI data.

A five-year look at crime rates show that the number of murders, robberies, rapes and other violent offenses committed in 2006 is returning to the peak reached in 2002. Crime dropped dramatically after that, the FBI data show.

In 2006, for example, an estimated 1,417,000 violent crimes were committed across the country. That was a sharp rise from the 1,360,000 crimes reported in 2004 and approaches the estimated 1,425,000-mark reached in 2002.

[voteronpaul3]

**** TAKE AMERICA BACK ****
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He has NEVER voted:
* to raise taxes
* for an unbalanced budget
* to raise congressional pay
* for a federal restriction on gun ownership
* to increase the power of the executive branch

He HAS voted:
* against the Iraq war
* against the inappropriately named USA PATRIOT act
* against regulating the internet
* against the Military Commissions Act

He will eliminate the IRS, Wasteful Government Spending & Stop The Iraq War Immediately!

Most importantly, he voted NO on anything in Congress that is not allowed by the Constitution.

He is the only candidate not a member of the CFR!

Shouldn''''t ALL members of Congress uphold the Constitution? Aren''''t they SWORN to uphold it? You can bet Paul won''''t call the Constitution "just a G**D***ed piece of paper" like George Bush is reported to have.

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[condumism]

20 years after abortions were legalized, the crime rate in the USA was at its lowest level in years. Now, 20 years after Neocons put up barriers around the country restricting abortions, crime is again approaching an all time high. Anybody that supports the Republicon agenda is also a criminal!

[df248-2009]

VoteRonPaul3

You are OFF TOPIC.. and turning people away ...

Stop doing this.. you are doing damage to RP.

Dave A RP Supporter!!!!!!


btw... The feds are playing with the numbers again..

2 years ago they were reporting the lowest crime rate 3 years running..
This is a ploy to justify the coming police state..

Don''t Believe it.. Government propaganda !!!!!!!

[dan9111]

Nice and thoughtful comments. Abortion is not connected to this, it is technically a neutral. The proof is that pro-choice folks are criminals in using the government in forcing their opinion. One cannot use violence to force another to adhere to "pro-choice" or "pro-life" -- both are violent acts of government leverage, and yet "protecting a woman''s right" is meaningless if we only want a non-violent way of doing business (and permit all to financially support the abortionists or let them starve).

Oh yeah, back to the presidential race. Ron Paul is a patriot, but supporting him is useless too-little-too-late. Sadly, we would have been better off if he were an abortionist. The FBI "crime rate" is an interesting statistic, useless though. Just count those murdered by our government, both here and abroad, and then contrast that to the FBI begging for more money. It is laughable.

[antoniof123]

Well, the world is going to hel1 in a handbag seems like in the last few years it started to spiral out of control.

[htophet]

The FBI like the other government entities have been politicized so no truth will be coming out from these groups. Everything they report to the public is distorted by the whims of those in the administration. An administration who to date has been caught lying about everything they have been involved in. Their hatred of the Constitution and Bill of Rights makes any utterance at least questionable if not treasonable in light of the oath they took when entering offices. As a veteran my oath I took against all enemies foreign or domestic use to have consequences if laws were broke, treason, fraud, embezzlement are now part of our foreign policy along with torture of prisoners, and attacking other countries for no reason....! Like Doyle the writer of Sherlock Holmes the ultimate evaluations should be made after all things have been examined judgement should only be made on what can be proven, which in this administration has proven time and time again that everything they have touched has gone criminal.
Trust those who want to save the troops lives, ignor the rantings form the fools and paid corproate war profiteers! Vote out of office all reightwingers and vote inot law a 5 dollar withdrawal from taxers every other year to fund PBS to run the debates and lectures, making lobbing a crime of bribery.!

[mo005]

Gee, I wonder if it has anything to do with our great goverment *** us over. Letting people that don''t even respect our way of life to move in on us. They take our health care system, and other aid, our jobs, then expect us to learn there language so we can say yes massa. I see more and more criminal illeagals every day. I have a freind that his daughter was raped by one at a check cashing place. And they wonder why crime is up. Most of america is pissed. I am.

[condumism]

Posted by Dan9111
The proof is that pro-choice folks are criminals in using the government in forcing their opinion.

Hey GOPig, if you don''t like abortion, then don''t have one! Again, 20 years after abortions were legalized, the crime rate in the USA was at its lowest level in years. Now, 20 years after Neocons put up barriers around the country restricting abortions, crime is again approaching an all time high. BTW ***, every aspect of the the Republicon agenda is criminal!

[kaelinda]

And people wonder why most Americans (and legal residents) don''t want illegal immigrants here. They use our resources without contributing to them, they increase crime, the increase the population of our prisons, and they increase the number of babies conceived solely for the purpose of conveying citizenship upon the parents. As for abortion: men, when you get pregnant, THEN you have a right to an opinion on the matter.

[glossypan]

Richard Cheney:"I have other priorities."

[voteronpaul3]

It has everything to do with him because if he were president he would unite the country build a work force instead of whoring the country out to other nations and in return it would lower the crime rate drastically. This is why the media is doing a media blackout and don''t want people to see Ron Paul because they tell the truth. Everyone who wants to keep believing the lies and corruption of all the lying politicans go ahead cause if Ron Paul is not elected it will be a civil war. Look at all the democrats they get eleceted to office and vow to end the war and no they have no plans to end it at all they want to expand it now. Ron Paul is the only person for the people our rights and not the corporations! Save a picture of him because in the end when it is a revolution, every american will wish they voted for him. He is Americas last hope you can join the revolution at: http://ronpaul.meetup.com/cities/

[Krazcarl]

Sounds to me like it''s pretty much staying the same 2% really isn''t a massive jump.

[my2centss]

As jobs get outsourced, and houses repossessed some people will see no way out. Crime will only increase if we do not improve the economy.

[menofoz]

FBI: Violent Crime On The Rise
Murders, Robberies And Other Violent Crimes Nearing 5-Year Peak



Why? With this incredible US economy, multiple wars, 9/11, right wing love i.e., Conservative hate and Carl Rove style politics divide and multiply.

[starleo146]

Posted by menofoz at 09:07 PM : Sep 24, 2007
Thank you for your post I believe you covered how this government has everyone all upset and dividing this country and people having to foreclose on there home is it any wonder people are up in arms. Nov 08 will be better providing another republican doesn''t get in.

[voteronpaul3]

You are correct, as the economy continues to get worse and foreclosures and debt keeps growing violent crimes will only continue to rise. Because mans instinct is to survive at any costs. You cannot take a mans home through him in the street and say FU to him and his family this is why people go postal. And corrupt politicans, corporations and Bankers are having a field day with it. They are using the prison systems now as slave labor and cheaper than china this is why they are doing it. The only people that can stop this is you the People of The Nation you must make your voice heard. Here is how you can do it in your city right now: http://ronpaul.meetup.com/cities/ If you have the ability to take action it is your responsibility. Do you have the ability?

[starleo146]

Well, the world is going to hel1 in a handbag seems like in the last few years it started to spiral out of control.

Posted by antoniof123 at 04:53 PM : Sep 24, 2007

Yep YOUR right and I know when it started to spiral out of control Nov. 8,2004 when George W. Bush said," I have the vote to spend my capital, it is my capital to spend, so he is spending, and spending, and spending.The rest of us are going to the poor house.

[tnt1954]

we are celebrating the coming crash of 2007 on
october 17th. join us at the bolshoi ballet
inn. where we will rememeber the heroes of
the bolshevik revolution, their 90th anniversary.
it is also the 20th anniversary of the 1987 crash,
when again everyone lost their life savings. lolol.
aw what the heck, its only money. as the
Greatest Depression approaches, remember our comrades
who fought and died so you and i could get a tuna
sandwich for free, as communism is just christianity
put to a ridiculous extreme. everyone sharing
and sharing alike and doing all that you do out
of the kindness of your own heart. not based
on the vile, violent premises of ayn rand and
atlas shrugged and objectivism. a world ruled
by self-interest will soon destroy itself.
now let us sing the internationale. tschiakowsky
and swan lake. taxed to death? who isn''t.

[tnt1954]

with roughly 1.5 million violent crimes in 2006
there must be a lotta people who are now in prison
or on the run. how many criminal lawyers are
there who do an excellent job of keeping criminals
free? crime is big business. crime pays. it was
a book i read at the l.a.p.d. to pass the time.
i was almost killed by a bomb after seven months
which ended my big police career. that was at
parker center. there must be a better way.
they make suggestions all the time, like
vast siberia type concentration camps out in
upper montana. or vast slave labor camps out
in death valley, ca to sweat it out. is there
a solution? i don''t think so. preemptive
law enforcement or crime prevention is hard.
to be really pre-emptive go high tech. have
everyone on earth in their own cell, operated
by a central computer. androids deliver the
**** sapiens their food. then we''d all be ''safe''!!
from each other. lol.

[hermit22]

do a study on the comparison of kids that grow up in Sunday School and kids that grow up on mtv and movies, rap music, etc. who comes up as criminals and violent? duh.

[brianbwb-2009]

Any numbers on economic crime, like fraud, embezzlement, and illegal kickbacks to corrupt government officials?

The two should not be regarded separately, they are both anti social acts that harm others, and should be treated the same.