Led by a 12.5 percent decrease in robbery, other violent
crime categories showed drops of 6.7 percent (murder and non-negligent
manslaughter) and 2 percent (aggravated assault). Rape showed a 0.6 percent
increase after the previous year’s 2.4 percent semiannual drop.
The 2017-to-2018 violent crime decreases cut across cities
of all sizes and most regions, with police agencies in the West showing the
only increase. Year-to-year
comparisons for the first six months of each year show a slight
decrease from 2016 to 2017, and increases in the previous two years.
The Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report statistics
showed property crime down year over year by 7.2 percent, with burglary showing
the greatest decrease, at 12.7 percent, its best first-half semiannual drop
since at least 2014-15. Arson also showed a significant decrease, 9.4 percent.
Brennan Center’s Ames Grawert, senior counsel in the Justice Program,
hailed the new report as “rebutting any claims of a nationwide crime wave.”
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