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Crime rate posts first increase in a decade
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Corrections Digest
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November 1, 2002
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Increases in theft and murder and a decline in arrests contributed to the first increase in the national crime index in a decade, the FBI said.
The Nation's Crime Index increased 2.1 percent in 2001 from the 2000 number, the first year-toyear increase since 1991, according to the FBI.
However, final data released by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program in the annual publication Crime in the United States, 2001, indicated that, when looking at fiveand 10-year trends, ...
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