By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
WASHINGTON — Calling the results “encouraging”, the FBI on Monday released preliminary crime stats for the first six months of 2010, saying violent crime nationwide dropped 6.2 percent compared to last year. It also reported that property crimes dipped 2.8 percent.
The report explained that violent crimes included murder, forcible rape, robbery and aggravated assault.
The FBI reported that violent crime as a whole decreased in all four regions of the country, falling 0.2 percent in the Northeast, 7.2 percent in the Midwest, 7.8 percent in the South, and 7.2 percent in the West.
But in a not so heartening development in the Northeast sector, murders were up 5.7 percent, forcible rapes were up 1.1 percent and aggravated assaults were up 2.4 percent. It also reported that burglaries in the Northeast rose 3.9 percent.
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