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WASHINGTON – The number of ferocious crimes in the United States dropped 5.5 proportionality terminal year compared to 2009 and the number of concept crimes went downbound 2.8 percent, the FBI announced Monday.

There were declines in every four categories of ferocious evildoing terminal year and every categories for concept evildoing went downbound as well.

The FBI reportable that ferocious evildoing lapse in every four regions of the country — 7.5 proportionality in the South, 5.9 in the Midwest, 5.8 proportionality in the West and 0.4 proportionality in the Northeast.

The bureau's origin statistics for 2010 are supported on aggregation from more than 13,000 law enforcement agencies.

Nationally, remove and non-negligent manslaughter declined 4.4 percent, forceful ravishment attenuated 4.2 percent, pillage declined 9.5 percent, and angry attack was downbound 3.6 percent.

The downward way for remove and non-negligent manslaughter was especially noticeable in the nation's smallest cities, where it went downbound 25.2 proportionality for cities under 10,000 people. Murder actually chromatic 3 proportionality in cities with populations of 250,000 to half a million.

In regard to concept crimes, locomote container theft showed the largest modify in 2010 — 7.2 proportionality — followed by larceny-theft, which was downbound 2.8 proportionality and burglary, a decline of 1.1 percent.

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