BTW, I made reference to the general direction of criminal victimization in a number of posts in this thread and indicated that homicide is a very reliable indicator of criminal trends because homicides are almost always reported.
This article makes reference to the fact that crime has been falling for 20 years but has shown some uptick the last couple years.
Whether this is to less police presence, because of budget problems of local government, or because of the lingering effects of the recession or both who knows.
I also tried to make the point that while crime had been falling for 20 years the amount of crime reported on 24 x 7 cable news, Internet, 24 x 7 access to Internet news media (e.g., Ann Arbor News, Detroit News, Free Press, etc.) makes crime SEEM much more prevalent than say 10 or 20 years ago despite data to the contrary.
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20131...es-in-U.S.
This is a good survey. I used to work at the Bureau of the Census within the same division (150 - 200 employees) which conducted this annual survey for DOJ (Dept. of Justice) as well as other annual and monthly surveys (the monthly survey is the household survey from which BLS calculates the unemployment rate). They have a long questionnaire and ask each respondent 'have you been a victim of..."
This gets at the problem discussed in this thread of under-reporting of crimes by victims.
So the federal government has the FBI's uniform crime reports system which measures crimes reported to local PDs and has a national criminal victimization survey where victimization rates can be computed based on self report of survey respondents (e.g., rapes per 100,000 population for a given year).
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O/T How safe is the EMU campus and surrounding areas
