On average the amount of crime, people see in the United States can go up and down from month to month, but over the years, we have seen a massive increase in the crime rate. The amount of crime that an area can see depends on where someone lives. For example, cities have a higher crime rate than rural areas. In New York City one of the most major cities in the United States the crime rates keep on rising. From 2005 to 2006 there was a 6.7% increase in people getting arrested for robbery and nearly 90% of them were men. According to the FBI’s uniform crime reports the crime from 2005 to 2006 rose about 2.3% nationally and New York’s murder rate increased only slightly. In New York City there has also been 127 more incidents of person on person assaults, a 39.1% increase from the previous year. These statistics are just a few of the problems one of the major cities in the United States is
On average the amount of crime, people see in the United States can go up and down from month to month, but over the years, we have seen a massive increase in the crime rate. The amount of crime that an area can see depends on where someone lives. For example, cities have a higher crime rate than rural areas. In New York City one of the most major cities in the United States the crime rates keep on rising. From 2005 to 2006 there was a 6.7% increase in people getting arrested for robbery and nearly 90% of them were men. According to the FBI’s uniform crime reports the crime from 2005 to 2006 rose about 2.3% nationally and New York’s murder rate increased only slightly. In New York City there has also been 127 more incidents of person on person assaults, a 39.1% increase from the previous year. These statistics are just a few of the problems one of the major cities in the United States is