Stephen Dinan, Washington Times
Violent crime dropped by its largest rate ever last year, according to preliminary DOJ data from its annual victim survey, which showed a 25% decline. Aggravated assaults fell 31%, robberies were down 27%, motor vehicle theft fell 29% and overall property crimes fell 19% in the data, which comes from a survey of more than 100,000 households. All are also records for the survey, which has been carried out for more than 50 years. The drops are even bigger than the FBI’s crime statistics, taken from crimes reported to law enforcement departments.
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