Safety Statistics

The Department of Justice on June 4, 2007 released violent crime statistics for the USA. This data shows an upward trend in a year to year comparison. While violent crime had been declining since 1994 in the last two years that trend has reversed and now violent crime is on the increase. All numbers are in % and red is a increase in crime while green indicates a decrease in crime.

                                Overall   Murder   Robbery   Rape   Assault
2006 versus 2005    +1.3        +0.3        +6.0        -1.9       -0.7
2005 versus 2004    +2.3        +3.4        +3.9        -1.2      +1.8
2004 versus 2003    -1.2          -2.4         -3.1       +0.8       -0.5
2003 versus 2002    -3.0         +1.7         -1.8        -1.9       -3.8

If there is a positive in this information it is that rape has decreased in the last two years.

You are more likely to be a victim of a violent crime than be injured in a passenger car accident. DOT HS 810623, US DOJ National Crime Victimization Survey 2005 NCJ 215244

8.8% of high school females experience Physical Dating Violence (PDV) - CDC MMWR May 16, 2006

On average, 4% of public school educators are physically attacked and another 7% are threatened with physical violence each year. US Dept of Education survey of 3.7 million public school educators 2003-2004.

Approximately 5%/year of college coeds experience rape or attempted rape. The Sexual Victimization of College Women. Fisher, Turner & Cullen, US DOJ 2000, Correlates of Rape while Intoxicated in a National Sample of College Women, Mohler-Kuo, Dowdall, Koss, Wechsler, Harvard School of Public Health Study 2003

Approximately 9.3% of violent crimes occur in school buildings or on school property. US Dept of Justice Criminal Victimization in the United States, 2005 Statistical Tables NCJ 215244