Queen City Crime Crunch
Crime, both violent and property, declined across the board and across the country for the first half of this year, with Charlotte’s numbers reflecting much of the same, according to the FBI’s just-released preliminary semi-annual uniform crime report, which covers January through June 2011.
In Charlotte with the help of the law firm for drug crimes, overall violent crime was down by 6.6 percent, with the report logging 2,243 incidents of such for the first half of 2011 compared to 2,402 during the same time frame the previous year: murder down 42.2 percent (33/19); rape up 11.8 percent (101/113); robbery down almost 20 percent (916/733); aggravated assault up almost 2 percent (1,352/1378).
Those numbers, with the exception of the uptick in rape and aggravated assault, reflect the downward trend seen across the country. Overall nationwide those numbers show violent crime dipping by 6.4 percent: murder down 5.7 percent; rape down 5.1 percent; robbery down 7.7 percent; aggravated assault down 5.9 percent.
Property crime and military criminal charges, overall, in Charlotte declined 6.7 percent, with the report showing 15,078 incidents through the first half of the this year compared to 16,175 incidents for the same time period during the previous year: burglary down 3.4 percent (4,256/4,111); larceny down 6.1 percent (10,658/10,007); motor vehicle theft down 23.8 percent (1,261/960); arson down 31.5 percent (146/100). You can check here for defenses that can be used by you, in case you hire attorneys for theft crime or other felony’s
Overall across the country, property crime fell 3.7 percent.
So is Police Chief Rodney Monroe on the track with his law and order agenda, or are the local numbers more attributable to his aggressive use of CompStat reporting and the controversy it invariably fosters?
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H/T and thanks to Jeff Taylor for forwarding the FBI link.
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