FDLE Crime Report
October 21st, 2011 by flanewsCrime is trending down in Florida. The Semi-Annual Crime Report was released by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement today.
It measures reported crime from January through June. In that time period overall crime declined two percentage points. Violent crime fell 3 points, but forcible sex crimes went up a percentage point. FDLE Commissioner Gerald Bailey is pleased with the decrease, but says it comes with a price.
“We’ve lost five officers in this same period I’m reporting on today. We’ve lost two from the Miami-Dade police Department and three from the St. Petersburg Police Department in two difference incidents, so it comes with a price,” said Bailey.
The report was complied using data from 409 of the state’s 416 law enforcement agencies. A county by county break down can be found at www.fdle.state.fl.us/fsac/ucr (click on UC reports, then county profiles).
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