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Violent Crime Rate Up, Again
Loaded on Nov. 15, 1991
published in Prison Legal News
November, 1991, page 7
There was a sharp increase in violent crimes according to the final statistics for 1990 gathered by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. The FBI reported murder and rape rates increased 9 percent last year, and robbery and aggravated assault rose 11 percent. The murder count reached an all-time …
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