Violent crime in certain big U.S. cities in 2015
likely increased over 2014, although the overall crime rate has remained far
below peak levels of the early 1990s, experts said, in advance of the FBI's
annual crime report, reported Reuters.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's report was
expected to show a one-year increase in homicides and other violent crimes in
cities including Chicago, Baltimore and Washington, D.C., based on already
published crime statistics.
Coming on the day of the first presidential campaign
debate between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton, the report
could "be turned into political football," said Robert Smith, a
research fellow at Harvard Law School, in a teleconference on Friday with other
crime experts.
A rise in violent crime in U.S. cities since 2014
has already been revealed in preliminary 2015 figures released by the FBI in
January.
A recent U.S. Justice Department-funded study
examined the nation's 56 largest cities and found 16.8 percent more murders
last year over 2014.
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