Violent crimes in the US on the rise again

**claud3** · 10-20-2012

Violent crimes in the US on the rise again

20 October, 2012, 01:38

TAGS:
Crime, Law, Sex, USA, Police, FBI

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For the first time since 1993, violent crimes in America are on the rise.
Statistics released this week by the US Department of Justice reveal that for the first time in nearly two decades, violent crimes across the country have surged following almost 20 years of data showing a drop in reported cases. In 2011, the total number of assaults and other violent crimes shot up 18 percent when compared to the year prior.

The Justice Department released figures this week after analyzing all types of crimes considered violent by the DoJ, including rape, sexual assault, robbery and crimes that include weapons or end with injury.

Most violent assaults, according to the annual National Crime Victimization Survey, actually remained unchanged across 2011. Simple assaults and aggravated attacks, however, surged by 22 percent, with around 5 million instances of those crimes being logged by police during the last calendar year. Those simple assaults, which clocked in at 3.9 million for last year, are defined as attacks where injuries are minor or nonexistent. More serious crimes, such as rape and robbery, totaled to 1.8 million in 2008.

Despite an evident increase in these serious crimes, the news comes after years of more positive numbers coming from across the country.
“2011 may be worse than 2010, but it was also the second-best in recent history,” Northeastern University criminology professor James Alan Fox tells the Associated Press. “These simple assaults are so low-level in severity that they are not even included in the FBI counts of serious crime,” Fox adds. The AP acknowledges that the Federal Bureau of Investigation only considers aggravated assaults in their personal statistics.

“Twenty years ago we knew what it was like to live through periods of high crime, and it was terrible. If we get another bad crime wave, my fear is we’ll react in a more punitive way and miss the opportunity to learn what is effective when the public is ready to try different things,” Harold Pollack, co-director of the University of Chicago Crime Lab, tells the Christian Science Monitor.

“A 17 percent increase is a pretty small rate relatively to where we were 20 years ago. That’s important to remember,”William Pridemore, a criminal justice professor at Indiana University in Bloomington, adds to their report.

The FBI is expected to release the results from their annual Uniform Crime Report last this month, to which experts suggest to CNN that an overall decline in crime is expected across the board, given that early research revealed a 4 percent drop for the first few months of 2011.

Link: http://rt.com/usa/news/violent-rise-assault-fbi-834/

Back to the good old days in the U.S.A

**DeviousOne** · 10-20-2012

Do you purposely just search FL news?

**claud3** · 10-20-2012

lmao... Just the news dude

rt.com has it all for me

**Yuuichi** · 10-20-2012

Lol statistics. They always make them so they look bad. They not counting for increse in population.

If I told you city a had 40 crimes per year and city b had 12 crimes per years which sounds better?

Now what if I told you city a has a pop of 3000 while city b has a pop of 300.

My area has had crime on the rise but more people live here now and it is snow bird time.

**claud3** · 10-20-2012

yep its just numbers... But so were they back in 1993, so either way, Crime is growing

**Yuuichi** · 10-20-2012

Originally Posted by claud3

yep its just numbers... But so were they back in 1993, so either way, Crime is growing

Of course because the population has grown. More people more crime.

**claud3** · 10-20-2012

true.. Recession and food stamps, plus stupid leaders as well

Adds to the crime rate

**Kuro** · 10-20-2012

I think Claud's doing this on purpose..

**claud3** · 10-20-2012

what pointing out flaws in the U.S or just pointing out that every country, has a drop and raise in crime. But some more that others

**Kuro** · 10-20-2012

Both..haha I'm kidding man do what you do best.

**claud3** · 10-20-2012

i report the reports and post the truth.. Plus i am one man against a massive world of news, trying to take apart the lies from the real truth

**Kuro** · 10-20-2012

The vigilante of psu..

**DeviousOne** · 10-20-2012

America fuck yeah!!! Lol

**claud3** · 10-20-2012

Originally Posted by Kuro

The vigilante of psu..

you could put it that way lmao

Well i never watch cnn, fox, sky news etc etc...

RT is the only channel i watch... Love all the news they have and i like to post the most funny, important and comment worthy here on PSU.

I am claud3 the PSU anchor man

**unicron7** · 10-20-2012

**claud3** · 10-20-2012

LMAO...You trying to say something my friend

**Completely Average** · 10-21-2012

Originally Posted by claud3

i report the reports and post the truth.. Plus i am one man against a massive world of news, trying to take apart the lies from the real truth

What utter tripe.

Out of curiosity, what is the violent crime rate of the UK? How many per 100,000 people?

What is the violent crime rate of the US? How many per 100,000 people?

How much unreported crime is estimated to take place in the UK per year

Let's see you take apart the lies and tell the truth about that.

**keefy** · 10-21-2012

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ lol

*goo · 10-21-2012

Originally Posted by Completely Average

What utter tripe.

Out of curiosity, what is the violent crime rate of the UK? How many per 100,000 people?

What is the violent crime rate of the US? How many per 100,000 people?

How much unreported crime is estimated to take place in the UK per year

Let's see you take apart the lies and tell the truth about that.

If you want to know that, you should probably go look it up yourself. Then you can post a thread about it here for everyone to read.

It's not Claude's job to appease everyone, it's getting tiring to see people do nothing but complain/comment on him rather than the article when he puts a thread up (not specifically aimed at you).

Admittedly, his last comment wasn't a terribly good one, though. Lol.

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**Cybertox** · 10-21-2012

America had always a high rate of crime and thats one of the main issues there. So the increase of crime isnt something shocking.

**claud3** · 10-21-2012

Look, I just posted it

For people to know. I never aim any thread at any country, yes most is from the u.s.a, but its just a thread

And yes my last comment was stupid.

If you want to attack me go ahead. It will not change my position on my threads I make

**Blacksite** · 10-21-2012

I don't have a problem with you making threads. It's the ego stroking and posts about RT News supposedly being a better source than other news sites that bugs me.

**claud3** · 10-21-2012

me rt.com is excellent source of news for real news is some cases, yes I admit I can read between the lines on some of their reports. I only take the ones I feel that will get a reaction on the forum

Again I do not aim them at anyone. The news could be from anywhere in the world, and I just enjoy posting ones i feel that are funny, silly or important... thats it

**Completely Average** · 10-26-2012

Originally Posted by Cybertox

America had always a high rate of crime and thats one of the main issues there. So the increase of crime isnt something shocking.

Hmmmm.

US Violent Crime Rate = 403 per 100,000 people

That is lower than EVERY EU country.

To put it in perspective for you....

UK is over 2,000 per 100,000 people
Sweden is over 1,100 per 100,000 people
Finland is over 700 per 100,000 people
France is over 500 per 100,000 people

Also, Canada is over 900 per 100,000 people

If the US has a high rate of crime, just imagine what the UK is like with a violent crime rate that is more than 500% higher than the US. In fact, out of the entire European continent, the only country that is close to as LOW as the US is Switzerland.

Originally Posted by *goo

It's not Claude's job to appease everyone, it's getting tiring to see people do nothing but complain/comment on him rather than the article when he puts a thread up (not specifically aimed at you).

Claud has a political agenda that he's pushing, and it's very clearly anti-American. He posts almost nothing other than American news with his own special bigotted twist on his commentary. Being in the US South I have known people with similar neo-political agendas. Most wore white sheets over their heads.

If he wants to continue with that trend in his posting, I will continue calling him out on it. If he wants to pretend that America is so bad I'll be more than happy to make an apples to apples comparison with his homeland to show, if for no other reason than to demonstrate that he should be more worried about his backyard than mine.

The UK is a cesspit compared to the US with crime that rivals Mexico, state sanctioned suppression of free speech and ideas, and more people collecting welfare than are working. I would like to remind dear claud that in the US we do not brand 5 year old children racists and place that in official records for making a simple playground joke, and our hospital emergency rooms aren't filled to closure with vomit and urine covered drunks every Friday and Saturday night..