Apr 7, 2014 ... Take “index crimes”: the eight violent and property crimes that virtually all U.S.  cities supply to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its Uniform Crime Report.  According to police figures, the number of these crimes plunged by 56 percent  citywide from 2010 to 2013—an average of nearly 19 percent per ...
Sep 12, 2014 ... But in the 10 years since the previous ban lapsed, even gun control advocates  acknowledge a larger truth: The law that barred the sale of assault ... Most  Americans do not know that gun homicides have decreased by 49 percent since  1993 as violent crime also fell, though rates of gun homicide in the ...
Feb 9, 2015 ... However, if black crime rates were the guide, it would seem that blacks are, if  anything, underrepresented in prison populations. ... Finally, in the other  categories of violent crime—rape, robbery and aggravated assault—blacks  consistently committed about 40 percent of the total in 2013, 2012, 2011, and ...
Jan 1, 2007 ... 7. The highest U.S. homicide rate ever reported was 10.5 per 100,000 in 1980.  See. Jeffery A. Miron, Violence, Guns, and Drugs: A Cross-Country ... American  gun ownership is quite high, Table 1 shows many other ..... printed in Would Gun  Control Reduce Crime 197 (David Bender ed., 1989); Robert S.
Jul 10, 2015 ... And what it shows is that immigrants are disproportionately unlikely to be in  prison. The prison population doesn't have a lot of immigrants in it. And when you  look at crime rates and correlate them with immigration populations, immigrants  are — cities with lots of immigrants don't have lots of crime.
The truth of the matter is that during my administration, the FBI's crime statistics show that violent crime was reduced in Massachusetts by 7 percent.