Violent crime down in Connecticut — Federal Bureau of Investigation report

It was the fourth largest drop in violent crime nationally, authorities said’.

Federal legislators make plans to assemble traveler about shootings linked to police activites which enables you to begin creating a account more information on how watch employ accident, FBI Director James B. Comey said Monday.

The agency also released its annual data on crime nationwide earlier this week.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation reported Monday that the nation’s crime rate decreased past year, with violent crime falling 0.2 percent and property crime falling 4.3 percent, compared with 2013. With significant advances in DNA testing, readily available cellphone videos and more surveillance cameras than ever, police have been able to catch perpetrators and solve crimes that they could not in the past, officials said.

“Once we receive this data, we will add a special publication that focuses on law enforcement’s use of force in shooting incidents”, Comey wrote in a message included in the report. 2014 was a year of unprecedented safety in the U.S. Most recently, Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Deputy Bill Myers was shot and killed from behind last week while serving a domestic violence injunction in Shalimar, Fla.

Police made an estimated 11,205,833 arrests during 2014-498,666 for violent crimes, and 1,553,980 for property crimes.

The report also shows that crimes such as larceny, motor vehicle theft and burglary dropped in 2014 by 7.5 percent over the previous years.

The drop in the Connecticut crime rate comes after violent crime in 2013 dropped 10.1 percent over the year prior. The most recent report, which was released in April, showed a 7 percent drop in crime in 2013 but an uptick in murders, more than half of which occurred in the state’s six major cities. But in a statement, Comey says that’s not enough to solve any real problems, so the agency is asking local law enforcement to give specifics about why and how the justifiable homicides occur.

“We hope this information will become part of a balanced dialogue in communities and in the media – a dialogue that will help to dispel misperceptions, foster accountability, and promote transparency in how law enforcement personnel relate to the communities they serve”, Comey said.

Loriquet noted a new statewide directive that was issued by the Attorney General past year requires longer retention of evidence from medical examinations of sexual assault victims who choose not to initially report the crime.

Senators Barbara Boxer of California and Cory Booker of New Jersey have proposed legislation that would mandate law enforcement agencies to report comprehensive data on the use of deadly force by their officers.