U.S. Crime Rates Drop After Two Years of Increases / Join Together, 10 June 2008
http://www.jointogether.org/news/headlines/inthenews/2008/us-crime-rates-drop-after.html
"The FBI reported this week that violent and property crimes in the U.S. declined last year after rising the previous two years, the Associated Press reported June 9. The violent-crime rate declined 1.4 percent in 2007 while property crimes were down 2.1 percent, according to preliminary data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports. Violent crime had risen 1.9 percent in 2006 and 2.3 percent in 2005."
Tables at: http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/2007prelim/