U.S. crime rate is lowest since 1973

[GWB]

Feds: U.S. crime rate is lowest since 1973

Another success of mine.

[Duke]

That's just because people are too poor to commit crimes nowadays. So THERE!

[/tongue][/cheek]

~D

[Cyrus]

...when it's not a teleprompter!

Read on, from the link you [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img] gave us, Mr President:
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WASHINGTON -- The nation's crime rate last year held steady at the lowest levels since the government began surveying crime victims in 1973, the Justice Department reported Sunday.


The study was the latest contribution to a decade-long trend.


Homicide is not counted because the Bureau of Justice Statistics study is based on statements by crime victims.


In a separate report based on preliminary police data, the FBI found a 1.3 percent increase in homicides from 2002 to 2003 -- from 16,200 to about 16,420.


The new survey put the rate for "property crimes" -- burglary, theft and motor vehicle theft -- in 2003 at 163 for every 1,000 people, an increase from 159 the year before.

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Don't choke on the words I emphasized when you read this on TV, Mr President. [img]/images/graemlins/cool.gif[/img]