crime

Crime will never go away.  We will always have some type of crime but over the past decade. Crime has miraculously gone down and keeps going down over the years.    The United States crime fell for the fifth consecutive year. Murders have gone down about 0.7 percent, robberies dropped 4 percent, aggravated assaults declined 3.9 percent, and forcible rapes were down 2.5 percent. Property crime has also gone down tremendously over the past nine years. Property crime managed to drop by 0.5 percent last year.  Many people may find this untrue, but that is because media presents it that way.  In the later years they had news, but not like the news we have today. We have more of a way to spread the word of brutal killings and tragic crime.  Another reason for crime rates to dwindle down is we don’t have access to as many dangerous weapons as before; we have more laws and stricter laws at that.  Criminologists have more reasons such as the technology improvement, such as surveillance cameras, alarm systems, and various other protecting systems.  They have also found a higher incarceration and a more aging population.   Crime still remains a serious problem.  Most are dealing with gang, drugs, or poverty.  There were 14,612 murders last year, on average one every 36 minutes. That's a small decline from 14,722 the previous year before that but murder has declined by seventeen percent over the past decade.  Having crime decrease over the past years, it is now decreasing at a slower rate stated by criminologist James Alan Fox. 

 http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/29/justice/us-violent-crime/index.html

 

Lisa Mullins 

February 1, 2013

11:48 AM