Tuesday, June 5, 2007

Preliminary Uniform Crime Report 2006: Now Available

From the Press Release:

Washington, D.C.-Data from the FBI's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for 2006 indicate that violent crime increased 1.3 percent in 2006 when compared with data from 2005. However, property crime decreased 2.9 percent for the same time period.

The FBI collected the national preliminary data from 11,723 law enforcement agencies that submitted at least 6 months of offense data through the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program in both 2005 and 2006.

More comprehensive statistics will be available in September 2007 when the FBI publishes Crime in the United States, 2006, on its UCR Web site.


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