DATE: Tuesday, July 8, 1997                 TAG: 9707070136

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 

TYPE: Public Safety 

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HAMPTON ROADS CRIME STATISTICS COMPARED TO NATIONAL AVERAGE

You keep publishing violent crime statistics for South Hampton Roads. I'd like to know the national statistics.

- Richard Lue, Virginia Beach

In 1995, there were 685 violent crimes per 100,000 people in the United States, according to the FBI. Preliminary FBI statistics indicate that violent crime fell 7 percent last year.

By comparison, there were 618 violent crimes per 100,000 people in South Hampton Roads in 1995, and violent crime dropped 8 percent in 1996.

A breakdown of violent crimes in 1995:

The national murder rate was 8 per 100,000; rape was 37 per 100,000; robbery was 221 per 100,000; and aggravated assault was 418 per 100,000.

The South Hampton Roads murder rate was 12 per 100,000; rape was 46 per 100,000; robbery was 313 per 100,000; and aggravated assault was 247 per 100,000. KEYWORDS: CRIME STATISTICS UNITED STATES HAMPTON ROADS

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