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Violent Crime Rate Spikes 17 Percent

post from ThinkProgress on 19 October 2012 12:30:11 PM. © ThinkProgress

The violent crime rate jumped 17 percent between 2010 and 2011 and property crimes rose 11 percent, according to a new U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics report. This was the first violent crime increase in 20 years, and the first spike in property crime in more than a decade. Experts differ on how significant this one-year spike [...]

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