Violent crime decreases.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. statistics released by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR (Under Color Removal) A method for reducing the amount of printing ink used. It substitutes black for gray color (equal amounts of cyan, magenta and yellow). Thus black ink is used instead of the three CMY inks. See GCR and dot gain. ) in its annual publication Crime in the United States Crime in the United States is characterized by relatively high levels of gun violence and homicide, compared to other developed countries although this is explained by the fact that criminals in America are more likely to use firearms. , 2003, at nearly 1.4 million offenses, the estimated volume of violent crime in the United States declined 3 percent from the 2002 figure. Murder was the only violent offense to increase (1.7 percent). Collectively, U.S. cities experienced a 3.9 percent decrease in violent crime compared to 2002. Nonmetropolitan counties saw a 3.7 percent drop and metropolitan counties experienced a decrease of 1 percent. Offenders used personal weapons (e.g., hands, fists, and feet) to commit more than 30 percent of violent crimes, firearms This is an extensive list of small arms — pistol, machine gun, grenade launcher, anti-tank rifle — that includes variants. : Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A
The UCR Program estimated that in 2003, law enforcement agencies A law enforcement agency (LEA) is a term used to describe any agency which enforces the law. This may be a local or state police, federal agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) or the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). nationwide made 597,026 arrests for violent crime, representing 4.4 percent of the estimated number of all arrests. Crime in the United States, 2003 is available at http://www.fbi.gov. |
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