FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program News

The overall number of property crimes declined in the U.S. while the number of violent crimes rose for the first six months of 2015 compared to 2014. The FBI report — Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report— is based on information …

The FBI estimates that in 2012, the number of violent crimes increased 0.7 percent while property crimes decreased 0.9 percent, the tenth straight year of declines for these offenses, collectively. The 2012 statistics show that the estimated rate of violent …