Violent and Property Crime Rates Increased in 2012
Violent and property crime rates rose for U.S. residents in 2012, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) announced today. These estimates are based on data from the annual National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), which has collected information from victims of crime age 12 or older since 1973, according to a PRNewswire release.
The violent crime rate (including rape, sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple assault) rose from 22.6 victimizations per 1,000 persons in 2011 to 26.1 in 2012. Crime not reported to police and simple assault accounts for the majority of this increase. The violent victimizations not reported increased from 10.8 per 1,000 persons in 2011 to 14.0 in 2012.