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Seth Black
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Posted:12/12/2005 19:55:54 |
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Crime Statistics / A very good reason to study Martial Arts...
Did You Know...?
Police cannot protect and are not legally liable for failing to protect individual citizens.
*See "Warren v. District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Dept.,444 A.2d 1(D.C. App. 1981), the courts stated: Courts have without exception concluded that when a municipality or other governmental entity undertakes to furnish police services, it assumes a duty only to the public at large and not to individual members of the community"
* A former Attorney General told Florida legislators that police responded to only 200,000 of 700,000 calls for help to Dade County authorities.
*Back in 1989 there were 168,881 crimes of violence for which police had not responded within 1 hour.
Can you imagine what the numbers are today?
*2,400,000 people use a gun to defend themselves every year.
*Of these 192,000 are women defending themselves against sexual abuse.
*92% merely brandish the weapon or shoot into the air, therefore in only 8% is the attacker killed or wounded.
However, law-abiding citizens are routinely prosecuted for brandishing or using a firearm in
self-defense.
Annual crime rates per 100,000 people
Crime Category Charlotte,
North Carolina
Robberies 452
Rapes 51
Homicides 11
Aggravated Assaults 696
Motor Vehicle Thefts 1151
Crime Lab Index 258
The FBI's Uniform Crime Reports show that in 2004, 89% of murder victims were age 18 or older. Of all murder victims, 45% were 20 to 34 years old.
Males were equally likely to be violently victimized by a stranger or nonstranger, and females were more likely to be victimized by a friend, an acquaintance, or an intimate.
During 2004 –
About seven in ten female rape or sexual assault victims stated the offender was an intimate, other relative, a friend or an acquaintance.
62% of males and 45% of females stated the individual(s) who robbed them was a stranger.
Intimates were identified by the victims of workplace violence as the perpetrator in about 1% of all workplace violent crime. About 40% of the victims of nonfatal violence in the workplace reported that they knew their offender.
For murder victims, 43% were related to or acquainted with their assailants; 14% of victims were murdered by strangers, while 43% of victims had an unknown relationship to their murderer in 2002.
Time of occurrence
In 2004 -
• 51% of incidents of violent crime occurred during the day between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m.
• Almost two-thirds of the rapes/sexual assaults occurred at night from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.
Place of occurrence
In 2004 -
• The location of about a quarter of incidents of violent crime was at or near the victim's home. Among common locales for violent crimes were on streets other than those near the victim's home (15%), at school (14%), or at a commercial establishment (8%).
• Of the violent crimes that occurred away from home, about half occurred within a mile from home and 75% within five miles. Only 3% of victims of violent crime reported that the crime took place more than fifty miles from their home.
• Of victims of violent crime, 22% were involved in some form of leisure activity away from home at the time of their victimization, 23% said they were at home, and another 20% mentioned they were at work or traveling to or from work when the crime occurred.
Workplace violence
Of selected occupations examined from 1993 to 1999, police officers were the most vulnerable to be victims of workplace violence, as well as correctional officers, taxicab drivers, private security workers, and bartenders.
While working or on duty, U.S. residents experienced 1.7 million violent victimizations annually from 1993 to 1999 including 1.3 million simple assaults, 325,000 aggravated assaults, 36,500 rapes and sexual assaults, 70,000 robberies, and 900 homicides. Workplace violence accounted for 18% of all violent crime between 1993 to 1999.
Police officers were victims of a nonfatal violent crime while they were working or on duty between 1993 to 1999 at a rate of 261 per 1,000 officers.
School violence
• Between 1992 and 2002, crime in the Nation's schools for students age 12-18 fell, a pattern consistent with the decline in the national crime rate.
• In every year from 1992 to 2002, students age 12-18 wee more likely to experience a serious violent crime away from school than at school.
• In 2003, about 7% of public and private school students age 12-18 reported that they have been bullied at school within the past six months.
• Among high school students in grades 9-12, the percent who said they got into a fight on school property declined from 16% to 13% between 1993 and 2003.
• In 2003, 12% of male students and 6% of female student reported experiencing a threat or injury.
Region
Western and Midwestern residents were victims of violent crime overall at similar rates, 2004.
In 2004 --
• 26 Westerners, 24 Midwesterners, 20 Southerners and 16 Northeasterners per 1,000 were violent crime victims.
Urban, suburban and rural
Urban residents had the highest violent victimization rates, followed by suburban resident rates. Rural residents had the lowest rates.
In 2004--
• Six urban residents, four suburban residents and four rural residents per 1,000 were victims of an aggravated assault.
• Suburban and rural residents were victims of violence other than rape/sexual assault at similar rates during 2004.
Weapon use
In 2004, 22% of the incidents of violent crime, a weapon was present.
Offenders had or used a weapon in 46% of all robberies, compared with 20% of all aggravated assaults and 8% of all rapes/sexual assaults in 2004.
Homicides are most often committed with guns, especially handguns. In 2003, 53% of homicides were committed with handguns, 16% with other guns, 13% with knives, 5% with blunt objects, and 16% with other weapons.
The role of alcohol in crime victimization
About 1 million violent crimes occurred in 2002 in which victims perceived the offender to have been drinking at the time of the offense. Among those victims who provided information about the offender's use of alcohol, about 30% of the victimizations involved an offender who had been drinking.
Two-thirds of victims who suffered violence by an intimate (a current or former spouse, boyfriend, or girlfriend) reported that alcohol had been a factor. Among spouse victims, 3 out of 4 incidents were reported to have involved an offender who had been drinking. By contrast, an estimated 31% of stranger victimizations where the victim could determine the absence or presence of alcohol were perceived to be alcohol-related.
For about 1 in 5 violent victimizations involving perceived alcohol use by the offender, victims also reported they believed the offender to have been using drugs as well.
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Kara R
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Posted:12/12/2005 21:44:12 |
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Not sure what year these stats are from..
Crime statistics state that:
* A woman is raped every 46 seconds in America... that's 78 rapes each hour!
* Every day, four women are killed by their abusive partners
* 25% of girls and 17% of boys will be sexually assaulted by the time they are 18 years old
* 14% of all American women acknowledge having been violently abused by a husband or boyfriend
* From 1992 to 1993 29% of all violence against women by a lone offender was by an Intimate
* 75% of domestic homicides occur after the victim has left the perpetrator
* 28% of all homicides of women are domestic violence related
* 95% of reported domestic assaults the female is the victim and the male is the perpetrator
* 75% of every rape is committed by a man that the victim knows
* 25% of rapes take place in a public area or a parking garage
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