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Crime Issues: Statistics And Forecasts
General Issues
	Exonerations On DNA Evidence Mount The Cost Of Crime Tops $1 Trillion A Year Crime Costs & Savings Ten Facts About Crime Myths About Crime
Forecasts and Interpretations
	Fighting Crime At The Expense Of Justice Violent Crime Down Again An Epidemic Of Black On Black Murders Dampening Jubilation On Crime Stats Crime Down In Some Areas, Up In Others Americans Slowly Accept Crime Drop Experts Confounded By Crime Decline Expected Increase in Crime Rate Future Crime Timing the Coming Crime Wave
Crime Statistics: U.S. and Texas
	NYC's Plunging Murder Rates Are A Mystery Crime Decreases For Ninth Straight Year Fewer Lawmen Killed on Duty in 1999 NCPA Study: Texas Crime Turnaround It's Official: Serious Crimes Down for Eighth Consecutive Year Crime Down For Seventh Year Crime Continues To Fall In 1998 Crime Drops Again In 1997 National Statistics Searchable Crime Statistics Index
Crime Statistics By Category
	Abuse Racial Divide In Domestic Violence Deaths Puzzles Experts Spousal Abuse Cuts Both Ways Drugs and Alcohol Enforcement Of Marijuana Laws Varies Widely Fewer Arrests For Drunken Driving Fraud Coping With Identity Theft Guns Firearms Deaths Down For Fourth Straight Year Gun Violence In Public Housing Firearms Deaths, 1979-1997 Guns Figure More Often In Suicides Than Homicides Drug Arrests Increase, Violent Crime Falls Hate Crimes Hate Crimes Statistically Rare Fewer "Hate" Groups Than Organizations Claim "Hate Crimes" Are Rare, Compared To Hate Or Crime The "Hate Crimes" Quandary Are Hate Crimes Laws Needed? Are They Just? Disparate Effect Of Hate-Crime Laws Do We Need More Hate Crime Laws? The Bogus Epidemic Of Hate Crime Murder Small Towns See Drop In Murder Rates Murder Rates Decline Again South's Homicide Rates Lead The Nation Murder Rate Drops Again In 1997 Property An Epidemic Of Worker Theft Car Theft Declines In 1996 Rape/Sexual Assault Rape Statistics Are Debated Violent Violent Crime Falls Again Violent Crime Rates Drop In 1996 Violent Crime Rates In 1995 Victims U.S. Murder Rate For Children Elderly Avoid Violent Crime By Staying Home At Night Property
Reporting Problems
	Crime Statistics Questioned Falsified Crime Data The Reality And Reporting Of Crime
Victimization Rates
	Homicide Lowers Life Expectancy Of Blacks: CDC African Americans Have A High Rate Of Being Murdered American Indians Are Victimized By Violence Slight Drop In Police Officers Killed How Safe is it to Live in America More Statistics about Victims With Friends Like These... Convicts Get Information On Citizens Risky Occupations Murder in America Victims And Perpetrators Are Usually Of Same Race Random Murders
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