Bullshit News via ANCAPS: 12 percent drop in violent crime surprises experts

The number of violent crimes fell by a surprising 12 percent in the United States last year, a far bigger drop than the nation has been averaging since 2001, the Justice Department said.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported there were 3.8 million violent crimes last year, down from 4.3 million in 2009.

Experts aren't sure why. The expectation had been that crime would increase in a weak economy with high unemployment like that seen in 2010.

The reality is that "we're surprised to find how much it declines," Professor Alfred Blumstein of Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz School said Friday.

More than 80 percent of the decline in violent crime was attributed to a plunge in simple assaults, by 15 percent. Those assaults accounted for nearly two-thirds of all violent crimes in 2010.

The combined total of property crimes and violent crimes was down 6.6 percent last year, from 20 million to 18.7 million.

The numbers come from the National Crime Victimization Survey, which gathers information on nonfatal crimes against people age 12 or older by questioning a nationally representative sample of U.S. households.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/16/MNI91L5MHU.DTL
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Bullshit News via ANCAPS: 12 percent drop in violent crime surprises experts

Bullshit News via ANCAPS: 12 percent drop in violent crime surprises experts

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