Violent and property crime down slightly in 2014 — Federal Bureau of Investigation report

Governor Dan Malloy and state public safety officials announced 2014 crime numbers at the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection in Middletown The FBI’s annual crime report shows that overall crime in Connecticut continued to drop in 2014, including a 9.7% decrease in violent crime.

The estimated number of violent crimes in the United States in 2014 fell by 2,915, the report said, dropping about a quarter of a percentage point to 1,165,383 from 1,168,298.

The report is in contrast to headlines this year about a surge in killings in a few major cities.The annual Uniform Crime Report statistics released Monday come amid lingering tension over police shootings and the relationship between officers and minority communities.

While the oversight predominantly affected estimates for New York, the statement said it “may have a slight impact on estimates for other states as well”.

They say a little more than 1/3 of local law enforcement agencies report to the national incident based reporting syste and and F.B.I.

As U.C. Berkeley criminologist Franklin Zimring recently told The Washington Post’s Max Ehrenfreund, “crime and violence in most big cities in the United States are pretty much as they’ve been lately”. Both incumbent Democratic mayors – Pedro Segarra in Hartford and Bill Finch in Bridgeport – lost their races on September 16 after their opponents repeatedly criticized them for spikes in violent crime, including shootings and murders.

Nationwide, reports of property crimes decreased by a total of 4.3 percent from 2013 to 2014, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

He said of the current information collected: “As helpful as this information is, however, we need more law enforcement agencies to submit their justifiable homicide data so that we can better understand what is happening across the country”. Overall, the report states there was a 9.7 percent decrease in violent crime over 2014. Asked to elaborate, a spokeswoman said: “There’s nothing else we have for you”.

Connecticut’s violent crime rate was about 237 crimes per 100,000 people, lower than the national average of 376 per 100,000.

These numbers represent a decline from a reported 44,523 known violent crimes and 230,334 property crimes in 2013.

The statistics, released Monday, showed that Connecticut had the fourth largest drop in violent crime nationally.

However, Killed by Police, the first database created to keep track of these numbers, has already tracked 890 since January 1 of this year, 95 in the month of September alone. Property crimes include burglaries, thefts and auto thefts.