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Violent
crime rates have declined since 1994, reaching the lowest level ever recorded
in 1999.
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click on the chart.
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Note: The violent
crimes included are rape, robbery, aggravated and
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simple assault,
and homicide. The National Crime Victimization Survey redesign was implemented
in 1993; the area with the lighter shading is before the redesign and the
darker area after the redesign. The data before 1993 are adjusted to make
them comparable with data collected since the redesign. The adjustment
methods are described in Criminal
Victimization 1973-95. Estimates for 1993 and beyond are based
on collection year while earlier estimates are based on data year. For
additional information about the methods used, see Criminal
Victimization 1999.
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Sources: Rape,
robbery, and assault data are from the
National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Ongoing since 1972,
this survey of households interviews about 80,000 persons age 12 and older
in 43,000 households twice each year about their victimizations from crime.
The homicide data are collected by the FBI's
Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) from reports from law enforcement agencies.
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