Violent crime and property crime rates continued to fall across the US, according to preliminary crime statistics from the Justice Department.
Reports of violent crime decreased 6.2 percent and property-crime reports were down 2.8 percent across the United States in the first six months of 2010, compared with the same period a year earlier, the Justice Department said on Monday.
This follows a three-year trend of decreasing crime rates despite a sagging economy.
(READ the article in the Washington Post)