Five Crime Trends

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When looking at the crime data collected by the UCR on Clay County from 2003-2012 there are a few trends that were noticed. These trends fell under Clay Counties top five crimes that had the highest percent change score from 2003 to 2012. These crimes consisted of forgery, sex offenses, aggravated assault, arson, and liquor law violations. Although all of these crime categories had the highest increase in change scores, the individual spikes varied for each crime. The largest spike in aggravated assaults in Clay County was from 2003-2004 when the total jumped from 7 to 19. Although there were other spikes within the aggravated assault category, this was the most significant. Clay County had two equally significant spikes from 0 to 2 from 2004-2005

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