Friday, August 04, 2006

Rising Violent Crime in the US Sparks a Search for Answers / VOA, 2 Aug 2006

http://www.voanews.com/english/Crime2006-08-02-voa11.cfm
Jeffrey Young
"The FBI reports that violent crime in the United States went up last year after declining for more than a decade. From the mid-1990s until recently, violent crime in the United States was on the wane. Whether that was the result, as many analysts have suggested, of more intensive policing, tougher jail sentences or even improved economic factors, the downturn brought a measure of relief to people in the nation's cities. Crime Wave or a New Trend? But FBI spokesman Paul Bresson says the latest report on violent crime could indicate that this more than a decade of declining crime may be over."
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