The FBI released the below information:
Today, the FBI released its
Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report, which covers January through June
2016 and which shows an increase in the number of violent crimes and a decrease
in the number of property crimes when compared to figures from the same time
period in 2015. The data came from 13,366 law enforcement agencies across the
nation.
According to the report,
violent crime in the U.S. showed an overall increase of 5.3 percent. Each of
the offenses in the violent crime category—murder and nonnegligent
manslaughter, rape, aggravated assault, and robbery—experienced increases:
aggravated assaults were up 6.5 percent; murders increased 5.2 percent; rapes
(legacy definition) were up 4.4 percent and rapes (revised definition)
increased 3.5 percent; and robberies were up 3.2 percent.
And while property crime as a
whole was down 0.6 percent (burglaries decreased 3.4 percent and larceny-thefts
were down 0.8 percent), motor vehicle thefts increased by 6.6 percent.
This preliminary report
features several tables which detail the percent change in offenses reported to
law enforcement by population group, by region of the country, and by
consecutive years back to 2012. It also contains a table showing the number of
offenses reported to law enforcement, by state, in cities with populations of
more than 100,000.
The full Crime in the United
States 2016 report will be released later this year.
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