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Vigilance for Violence

nomic means above the the previous year. From tions are raised whenever
median income range, that data, an estimated statistical data comes into B
personal exposure to crim- 17,250 murders were play. A healthy sense of R

inality may be non-exis- reported. During 2016, skepticism must be ap- O
tent. In an annual crime census information re- plied. Overall, compar- W

poll by a major survey ports about 322,762,018 ing the average murder A
group, in 2007, about 3 Photo Courtesy of google.com rate to the total R
out of 10 people population, both D

indicated some legal and illegal
level of victim- residents, and not U

ization, or knew counting yearly N
someone victim- international tour- I
ized by a criminal ism, suggests the V

event. Accord- murder rate is less E
ingly, roughly 5% than 1% of the R

indicated involve- total number of S
ment in a violent people. In a simi- I
crime within the lar way, the num- T

previous year. Of these persons legally residing in ber of murders in a par- Y
incidents, the most fre- the U.S. Added to that, an ticular year are less than

quently reported crimes additional approximation 1% of the total number of 2
included those involving of 11,000,000 illegal per- violent crimes. Compar- 0
property, as in thefts, van- sons were residing in the ing violent crime to non- 2

dalism, burglary and so U.S. in 2016. That brings violent crime, many more 0
forth. At a national cen- the numbers of persons property crimes occur than

ter that collects data on guessed to have been violent crimes.
crime trends, studying a living in the U.S. dur-
20-year period, from 1993 ing that time to be about If one factors also the

to 2012, the violent crime 333,762,018. Using the scope of so-called white-
rate decreased. standard government sta- collar crime, then the

tistical reference point of exponential nature ex-
In contrast, a brief look ratio to 100,000 persons, pands. Considering the
at murder data for 2016 which indicates 5.1 mur- range of cybercrime, or-

available from the FBI’s ders per 100,000. ganized crime, terrorism
Uniform Crime Reports, and corporate criminality,

show an 8% increase over Naturally, cautionary nota- street crimes pale in com-

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