The government says the number of violent crimes rose by 18 percent in the United States last year while property crimes went up by 11 percent.
It was the first year-to-year increase for violent crime since 1993.
That increase marks the end of a long string of declines for violent crime, which has fallen by 65 percent since 1993 — from 16.8 million to 5.8 million last year.
The information comes from the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics’ annual national crime victimization survey.
The bureau cautions that the size of the percentage increases in both violent crime and property crime is driven in large part by the historically low levels seen in 2010.
(AP)
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It is interesting to note the the number of abortions in the US peaked about 20 years ago and has decline since then. This would support the hypothesis that the decline in crime rates in the late 20th century and early 21st century were tied to the increase in abortions. Thus the fewer abortion, the more crime roughly a generation later (when the children who weren’t aborted reach the age at which criminal activity is most common).
Obviously, the conservatives are unhappy to hear that liberalized abortion confers social benefits, and the liberals aren’t thrilled to hear that abortion mainly kills babies of a specific socio-economic background.