FBI: Violent crime in U.S. on rise in 2005

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FBI: Violent crime in U.S. on rise in 2005

A one year thingy or does it represent a sea change in violent crimes committed?

The bad:

The overall national increase in violent crime was modest, 2.5 percent, which equates to more than 1.4 million crimes. Nevertheless, that was the largest percentage increase since 1991.

Nationally, murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005. That would be the most since 1998 and the largest percentage increase in 15 years.

Some big cities felt the brunt.
In Philadelphia, homicides jumped from 330 in 2004 to 377 in 2005, a 14 percent increase, according to the FBI. Murders climbed from 272 to 334 in Houston, a 23 percent rise, and from 131 to 144 in Las Vegas, a 10 percent increase.

Murders rose from 59 to 104 in Birmingham, Ala., up 76 percent; from 59 to 85 in Charlotte-Mecklenburg County, N.C., a 44 percent spike; from 89 to 126 in Kansas City, Mo., a 42 percent rise; from 87 to 122 in Milwaukee, a 40 percent jump; and from 79 to 109 in Cleveland, up 38 percent.


Improved:

Detroit, Los Angeles and New York were among several big cities that saw murder numbers drop.

Theories about New York's decline vary. Some experts point to favorable shifts in demographics and the economy, as well as the crash of a once-thriving crack market that fueled violence in the 1980s.

Is the "war on drugs" having an effect on these cities?

[Exsubmariner]

Is it possible that the "undocumented workers" coming across the border in droves are not necessarily just interested in finding work? Is it possible some of them are criminals and interested in finding victims? Is it coincidence that our prisons are 20% filled with illegal immigrant criminals?

Hmmmmmm???? Does saying this make me a racist?

[Zeno]

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Nationally, murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005. That would be the most since 1998 and the largest percentage increase in 15 years.


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The current population of the US is ~299,000,000 and only ~ 17,000 murders were committed (0.0057 % of the population) last year? This is such a paltry number that I think there must be some mistake. I thought the muck-brained throbbing masses were gunning each other down at a much greater rate than that. At least that is the impression you get from the mastodon herds of sniveling liberal demagogues that whine about violence. Anyway, this is terrible news. Let me know when the number reaches 170,000 or better yet 1.7 million. That would be progress.


Le Misanthrope

[jman220]

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Nationally, murders rose 4.8 percent, meaning there were more than 16,900 victims in 2005. That would be the most since 1998 and the largest percentage increase in 15 years.


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The current population of the US is ~299,000,000 and only ~ 17,000 murders were committed (0.0057 % of the population) last year? This is such a paltry number that I think there must be some mistake. I thought the muck-brained throbbing masses were gunning each other down at a much greater rate than that. At least that is the impression you get from the mastodon herds of sniveling liberal demagogues that whine about violence. Anyway, this is terrible news. Let me know when the number reaches 170,000 or better yet 1.7 million. That would be progress.


Le Misanthrope

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Yeah, because criminals only ever kill other criminals, never innocent hard-working people.

Also, the single largest class of murders in this country are domestic violence murders, by far.

[Zeno]

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Does saying this make me a racist?

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Everyone is a racist except a select few self-anointed academic gods and their non-thinking sycophantic acolytes. Haven't you been listening?

Le Misanthrope

[Zeno]

What, no cries to repeal the second amendment yet and confiscate all the guns from the idiot masses to prevent them from shooting each other???!!!


Le Misanthrope

[Exsubmariner]

All the liberals took the day off from the internet. They are crushed by the news Rove isn't subject to the flights of liberal fantasy in their blogs.

[mmbt0ne]

Good job Atlanta in being one of the cities that decreased overall violent crime. And we did it despite being "the new Harlem/Motown" filled with darkies, and a vast influx of those dirty beaners.

Year ViolentCrime Murder ForcibleRape Robbery AggravatedAssault PropertyCrime Burglary LarcenyTheft MotorVehicleTheft Arson
2005 358 6 41 135 176 5,593 1,047 4,185 361 30
2004 7,921 111 267 3,116 4,427 33,185 6,726 20,703 5,756 207

[RacersEdge]

Check the records - was there a lull in abortions around 1985??

[jman220]

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Check the records - was there a lull in abortions around 1985??

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Actually, according to the CDC, around 16 years ago (1990), abortion rates did in fact, drop off, and continued to drop off for five years.