Violent crimes consist of four major offenses, murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. According to FBI’s uniform crime report, approximately 1,246,248 violent crimes occurred throughout our nation in 2010. Aggravated assault had the highest number of reported crimes in 2010 at 62.5%, followed by robbery, then forcible rape, and then murder at 1.2%. Violent crimes occurred mostly in the south throughout 2010 with a rate of 452.0 per 100,000 inhabitants…
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