FBI Says Crime Rate Falls

[dcselby1]

Interesting story. Crime rates have fallen over the past 20 years. Also over the past 20 years, most states have relaxed their gun laws. Coincidence? I think not.

FBI: Crime reported to police fell last year

WASHINGTON — The number of violent crimes reported to police decreased 3.8 percent last year to 1.2 million, the fifth straight year of declines, the FBI announced Monday.

Meanwhile, the total number of property crimes reported to law enforcement agencies went down by 0.5 percent to 9 million, the ninth consecutive year that figure has fallen. Property crimes resulted in estimated losses of $156.6 billion.

The latest declines mark the continuation of a nearly two-decade drop in crime levels — a trend that almost no one in the field of criminology predicted, said Professor John Caulkins of Carnegie Mellon Heinz College. The trend, said Caulkins, is a reflection of a range of many factors, including policing practices.

A drop in the number of people in the peak crime-age category of teens to 25-year-olds also contributed to the crime reductions, Caulkins said, but added that "if this were only a story of demographics, we would never have had this kind of substantial decline."

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[dogshawred]

Even with trend occuring for some time, they just don't get it. More likely than not they just don't want to admit what is leading to this trend of declining criminal activity. It is just too simple for them to understand or admit. The more guns their are in the hands of law abiding citizens, the less criminals want to get hurt or killed during the preformance of their chosen line of work, as it should be.