Crime rates decreased across the nation

However, these numbers do not represent this year’s increase in murder and other violent crimes reported in various cities. Since reporting of homicides and violent crimes tends not to change, “you get the same kind of rate of reporting every year, so the trend is actually meaningful”. That doesn’t take into account La Grande’s 59 reported simple assaults in 2014, Harvey said.

Rifles were involved in 248 murders past year, fewer than the number committed with knives, blunt objects, and fists or feet.

Despite the numerous violent headline, murder rates were at an all time low since 2009.

The statistics for Maricopa County’s crime rate decline were put together by the Arizona Department of Public Safety.

Violent crime is consisted of four offenses: murder and non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. The rate fell 5 percent nationwide.

The bureau’s annual summary of crime in the United States showed that, in 2014, the US saw a 1 percent decrease in its violent-crime rate. The rates of burglary, larceny theft, and motor vehicle theft all declined.

The report says that in Memphis, homicides increased by almost 13 percent and the number of rapes rose by 14.6 percent in 2014. Total property crimes ticked up in the Connecticut cities of Hartford and Stamford.

Harvey said he is unsure whether a standard definition is used to categorize the crimes. We’re talking a quarter of a percentage point decrease.

“The gun prohibition lobby and Michael Bloomberg and friends must be choking on this huge drop in homicides”, said Alan Gottlieb of the Second Amendment Foundation, a gun rights organization.

“We cannot turn a blind eye to these issues in our community”. By examining the incidence of violent crime in the nation’s largest cities, 24/7 Wall St. identified the most unsafe cities in America.