selfbnd411
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Two things: First of all, income inequality is very high, and large chasms between the rich and the poor tends to lead to hopelessness and desperation.
Secondly, remember that the Feds under Sr. Alberto aren't interested in crime anymore. They're focused on saving us all from the horrors of pornography. Better dead than reading a BDSM website!
Murders, robberies rising as nation's violent crime increases
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Big-city murders rose sharply in 2006 as violent crime increased nationally for the second straight year, the FBI reported Monday.
Homicides committed in small towns and mid-size cities took a dramatic downswing - resulting in an overall 0.3 percent increase in the murder rate across the country, the new preliminary data show.
Year-end totals for murders rose in eight of the nation's 10 largest cities: Chicago, Houston, Las Vegas, New York, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio and San Diego. That contributed to a 6.7 percent murder rate increase in cities with populations over 1 million people.
The murder rate dropped in two other big cities, Dallas and Los Angeles. And it plummeted by an overall 11.9 percent in smaller cities, towns and rural areas, the data show.
The growing homicide numbers contributed to an overall 1.3 percent hike in violent crime nationwide in 2006. A year earlier, violent crime rose by 2.3 percent, the first increase since 2001.
FBI Assistant Director Ken Kaiser, detailing the new numbers to reporters in Washington, said it's too soon to expect a long-term increase in violent crime.
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The new numbers come in the wake of the Bush administration's shifting focus - evidenced by lessening Justice Department grants and FBI investigators - from fighting crime to combating terrorists after the 2001 attacks. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has pledged to devote millions of additional dollars and a surge of federal agents to aid crime-riddled cities.
Indianapolis Mayor Bart Peterson, a Democrat who presides over the National League of Cities, said local officials nationwide are asking Congress for more than $1 billion annually to restore stretched-thin police departments back to their full force. He attributed the rise, in part, to increased gang activity, violent youths and domestic crimes.
http://www.delmarvanow.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070605/NEWS01/70605020/1002
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violence seems up locally? - 
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