FBI: Violent crime dropped 4.4% last year

Violent crimes reported to the police dropped 4.4 percent last year according to the FBI's annual Uniform Crime Report, reported The Crime Report.
The FBI compilation continued a 5-year trend of violent crime reductions. The FBI defines violent crime as including murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. The national murder total last year was 14,196, compared with 14,827 in 2012.
The Justice Department's annual victimization survey, released in September, found that the rate of violent crime declined slightly last year from 26.1 victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2012 to 23.2 per 1,000 in 2013.  That report, which is based on a survey of Americans, found no statistically significant change in the rate of serious violent crime (rape or sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault).
The FBI reported a national arrest total was 11,302,102, including 1,501,043 for drug offenses, the highest sub-category. Both numbers were down from 2012, when there were 12,196,951 arrests, including 1,552,432 drug arrests.
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