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Despite Bad Economy, Crime Rates Plummet

By David KnowlesDec 24th 2009 – 4:44PM
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(Dec. 24) – Looking for some good news in a year full of economic woe? Crime was down in 2009. Way down. According to figures released this week by the FBI, the overall crime rate dropped by 4.4 percent this year. Property crime dropped by 6.1 percent and homicides were down an eye-popping 10 percent. In fact,...

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MURDERS ON THE RISE

By jen@huffingtonpost.com(Jen Sabella) Apr 12th 2012 - 10:09AM

Homicides in Chicago spiked by 60 percent during the first three months of the year despite an increase in police resources in some of the city's most dangerous neighborhoods, according to new police crime statistics.

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