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Crime Rose
Again in 2001, FBI Says Mon Oct 28,10:12 AM ET
By CURT ANDERSON, Associated Press Writer
........WASHINGTON (AP) - Murder,
rape and every other violent criminal act except aggravated assault
rose last year, the FBI (news - web sites) said Monday in reporting
the first year-to-year increase in overall crime in a decade.
Related Links
• Crime in the U.S. 2001 (FBI)
• Crimes factsheet (FBI)
........The number of murders increased
for the second straight year, following several years of decline,
according to the FBI, which compiles its annual survey from crimes
reported by 17,000 law enforcement agencies nationwide.
.......The 15,980 murders represented
a 2.5 percent increase over 2000, while forcible rapes were up
less than 1 percent and robberies rose 3.7 percent. Aggravated
assaults fell by a half-percentage point, reaching its lowest
level since 1987.
........The FBI did not include
the Sept. 11 deaths at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon (news
- web sites) and the plane crash in Pennsylvania. These deaths,
the FBI said, "are different from the day-to-day crimes
committed in this country."
........The report listed the
total number of Sept. 11 murder victims reported by law enforcement
agencies as 3,047. Of those, 2,823 occurred at the World Trade
Center, 184 at the Pentagon and 40 in Somerset County, Pa., the
FBI reported.
........The total number of
crimes rose 2.1 percent last year, the first increase from year
to year since 1991, the FBI said. But overall crime still is
down 10 percent compared with 1997, according to the report.
........Property crimes such
as burglary, larceny and arson, with no threat of violence, rose
2.3 percent, to 10.4 million cases. The total value of stolen
property was pegged at $17.1 billion, with motor vehicles and
jewelry accounting for the most money. About a third of stolen
property was recovered.
........The FBI report differs
from a survey done earlier this year by the Justice Department
(news - web sites), which identified a drop in all violent crimes
except murder in 2001, based on interviews with victims. Murder
is not included in that survey, and the FBI cautions against
comparing the two reports.
.......Despite the increase
in murders, the FBI said the overall number still is down nearly
33 percent from 1992. Murder accounts for only about 1.1 percent
of the nation's violent crime, with aggravated assault making
up about two-thirds of the cases and robbery another 29 percent.
.......There were 6,750 white
murder victims, 6,446 who were black, with the remainder a mix
of other or unknown races. Men were far more likely than women
to be murdered.
........Firearms accounted for
8,719 slayings, or about two-thirds, followed by knives, "personal"
weapons such as fists and feet, blunt objects and such methods
as drugs, strangulation and drowning. There were 10 murders-by-poison
in the United States last year, according to the FBI.
........Police were able to
make arrests in about 20 percent of all cases. They did better
with violent crimes, solving 46 percent, including two-thirds
of all murders. Burglaries remain the toughest cases to crack,
with just 13 percent of offenses resulting in arrests.
........There were more than
2.3 million arrests for crimes tracked by the FBI in 2001, down
less than 1 percent from the year before.
........This author, Dr.Roy
Foster, has for the past ten years been trying to send the message
out through his series of books
and website to wake up the world to
what is happening to each and everyone of us. Crime is the extention
of the corrupt society where most people have been taken over
by the alien identity, evil in all of us but in different degrees.
There is a need for crime because it gives government a reason
to exist. Evil is crime, and crime is evil where authorities
work hand in hand because they depend upon being needed. If there
was no crime, policemen would lose their jobs, jails wouild close
and many people would be out of business.
An increase in crime means that more of the society is failing
further into not recogizing the facts of life. Just watching
the indices will show you how Aamerica is slipping. This also
gives terrorists reasons to attack this country because they
look a the worst of us Americans. A change in our society is
necessary to avoid some very serious consequences. By studying
the first book of the series "World's
Greatest Conspiracy" Volume I, you will understand the
meaning of "Change Your Words, Change Your Mind, Change
the World". Crimes are created through the words of the
thought process which are from the alien identity telling those
taken over by "it" to do the crime. Committing a crime
is not something one just does intuitively or even instinctively
from the carnal side of human beings. Something is always telling
that criminal to act in this way. This is similar to committing
suicide, because it these voices which now have become the dominant
voices in the thought process. We all have this problem to some
degree and must learn to break the spell or face the consequences.