For the month of July , the number of murders and shooting incidents in New York City declined compared with July Murder decreased by The department made gun arrests for the month of July, a In July , overall index crime in the city increased 0.
Today, the Federal Bureau of Investigation released its edition of Crime in the United States , which showed that violent crime decreased nationwide for the third consecutive year. After decreases in both and , the violent crime rate dropped an additional one percent this past year and the property crime rate decreased 4. Since , the FBI has tracked nationwide data on crimes and publishes its compilation each year.
Submitting data to the FBI is a collective effort on the part of city, county, state, tribal, and federal law enforcement agencies to present a nationwide view of crime. Violent crime rates had been increasing during , so I am proud of the hard work by all prosecutors and law enforcement agents across the nation who have reduced violent crime rates during each of the last three years.
I look forward to continuing our joint efforts to protect the American public from the violence of criminals. In , there were an estimated 1,, violent crimes and an estimated violent crime rate of This represented a one percent decrease from the prior year.
In October , the Department of Justice reinvigorated Project Safe Neighborhoods PSN , a crime reduction initiative targeting gun and gang violence in particular geographic hotspots. Using the BJS statistics, the declines in the violent and property crime rates are even steeper than those reported by the FBI.
While perceptions of rising crime at the national level are common, fewer Americans believe crime is up in their own communities. In all 23 Gallup surveys that have included the question since , no more than about half of Americans have said crime is up in their area compared with the year before. There are some demographic differences in both victimization and offending rates, according to BJS. In its survey of crime victims , BJS found wide differences by age and income when it comes to being the victim of a violent crime.
Younger people and those with lower incomes were far more likely to report being victimized than older and higher-income people. There were no major differences in victimization rates between male and female respondents or between those who identified as White, Black or Hispanic. But the victimization rate among Asian Americans was substantially lower than among other racial and ethnic groups.
When it comes to those who commit crimes, the same BJS survey asks victims about the perceived demographic characteristics of the offenders in the incidents they experienced. In , those who are male, younger people and those who are Black accounted for considerably larger shares of perceived offenders in violent incidents than their respective shares of the U.
There are big differences in violent and property crime rates from state to state and city to city. In , there were more than violent crimes per , residents in Alaska and New Mexico, compared with fewer than per , people in Maine and New Hampshire, according to the FBI. Even in similarly sized cities within the same state, crime rates can vary widely. Oakland and Long Beach, California, had comparable populations in , vs. See also: Despite recent violence, Chicago is far from the U. Most violent and property crimes in the U.
In its annual survey, BJS asks crime victims whether they reported their crime to police or not. In , only Most of the crimes that are reported to police, meanwhile, are not solved , at least based on an FBI measure known as the clearance rate.
In , police nationwide cleared Both the percentage of crimes that are reported to police and the percentage that are solved have remained relatively stable for decades. Around eight-in-ten motor vehicle thefts
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