Violent Crimes Continue To Decrease In The U.S.
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Violent crimes in the United States continue to drop. (Adam Gerard/Creative Commons)
This drop is part of a trend in which violent crimes have continued to decline for years.
Crimes are the lowest they have been since the 1970s. The number of crimes in the country for 2013 is an estimated 1.16 million.
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Violent crimes included in this report are murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
The data in the crime statistics report comes from 18,415 campus, city, county, state, tribal and federal law enforcement agencies.
The FBI also reported that California experienced the biggest drop in imprisonment rates from 2009-2013.
Read more at the Chicago Tribune.
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