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Well, if you look at the statistical analysis, you will find that as abortion became legal and safe, the rate of violent crime has dropped in this country — significantly and with a high correlation to access to safe and legal abortions.

«Some have argued that the more armed citizens there are, the lower the firearm homicide rate will be, because the feared or actual presence of armed citizens may deter violent crime,» said lead author Michael Siegel, professor of community health sciences at BUSPH.

Critics of these protests have attributed police shootings to «bad apples» within police departments, or argued more black victims die at the hands of police because higher rates of violent crime in black communities lead to more interactions with police.

Indeed, in a 2011 analysis of game sales from 2004 to 2008, A. Scott Cunningham of Baylor University, Benjamin Engelsttter of the Center for European Economic Research in Mannheim, Germany, and Michael R. Ward of the University of Texas at Arlington found that higher rates of violent game sales actually coincided with a drop in crimes, especially violent crimes.

Looking at violent crime specifically, Lake City, FL has a violent crime rate that is 255 higher than the Florida average and 295 higher than the national average.

The rate of violent crimes that occurred at public schools during the 2004 - 05 school year fell from a year earlier, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice and the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics.

But here's something else that jumped out at me: «The past two decades have witnessed a drop in incidences of school violence, including homicide rates and violent crime.

We first looked at crime statistics from the FBI to calculate the violent crime rate of each city.

In determining which cities in Virginia are the safest, we looked at the crime rate as measured by the odds of becoming a victim in violent crime.

Baltimore's violent crime rate is the eighth highest in the country — inside the top 10 nationally but only at the fifth highest rate on our list.

Located on Long Island, this city of almost 23,000 residents boasts the lowest violent crime rate on our list as well as the highest median income, at more than $ 141,000.

Meadville residents enjoy the shortest average commute of any of the cities on our list at just 14.4 minutes, and violent crime rates are well below average.

We looked at the odds of being the victim of a violent act for each city and only included those spots with crime rates that were well below the national average.

The rate of violent crime is quite high at 5.8 incidents per 1,000 residents, but it's also a strong community for young people, with more than 23 percent of residents between 20 and 34 years old.

The violent crime rate is below average, at 3.1 incidents per 1,000 people, and the city has an above - average concentration of young people, with 20 - to 34 - year - olds making up almost 29 percent of the population.

The typical annual income for a college graduate here is almost $ 51,000, the concentration of young adults is above average at 24 percent, and the crime rate is distinctly low at less than one violent incident per 1,000 residents.

The rate of violent crime is low, particularly for a relatively large community, at 1.9 incidents per 1,000 residents, and the typical resident with a bachelor's degree can make almost $ 59,000 per year.

For instance, each country phased out lead in gasoline, plumbing and paint at different times, providing a rigorous test that shows a high degree of likelihood that lead poisoning can influence violent crime rates.

I think the second StatsCan graph, headed \ Violent crime rate, 1962 to 2007 \, at this source is of assistance (source here, for some reason Slaw keeps translating quote marks in my comments as backslashes, which corrupts the hyperlink — anyone interested in viewing the graph should click on the link and then delete the final backslash from their address bar — or just go to the StatsCan Daily for July 17, 2008).

Mr. Churak represents clients in cases ranging from juvenile offenses to violent crimes, providing consistent quality at affordable rates.

Oakland was also doubled when looking at the violent crime rate.

Increases in female arrest rates for violent offenses may therefore be due, at least in part, to net - widening policies, such as more aggressive policing of low - level crimes, and the increasingly common reclassification of simple assaults as aggravated assaults.