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Violent crime drops in city
Statistics through 3 quarters, however, show more burglaries
YOUNGSTOWN
Youngstown mirrors the rest of the state with a drop in the most-violent crime category for the first three quarters of 2011, but the city has seen an increase in burglaries.
The city has compiled crime statistics for the first three quarters this year. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also has released 2011 crime statistics for other major cities in the state, but those figures show statistics for only the first two quarters.
The city has seen a reduction across the board for violent crimes such as homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault from January through September.
City records show that from January through September there were five more homicides in 2010 than in 2011, 11 more rapes reported, 19 more reported robberies, and 55 more aggravated assaults reported.
Homicides were down for the first nine months, but that figure has changed with the city showing 23 homicides at the end of November compared with 19 homicides through November 2010.
According to figures released by the FBI, occurrences of violent crimes dropped across the state. The FBI tracks and records data from six major cities in Ohio — Akron, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton and Toledo.
Each city listed in the FBI report saw a reduction in overall violent crime. The report, however, does show small variations in some individual categories such as Dayton, which saw one additional homicide in the first half of 2011 as compared to 2010, and Toledo, Dayton, Cleveland and Akron, which each saw an increase in the number of reported rapes between 2010 and 2011.
The FBI report went on to say the occurrence of all four offense types in the violent-crime category decreased nationwide — homicide was down 5.7 percent, rape dropped 5.1 percent, robbery fell 7.7 percent, and aggravated assault declined 5.9 percent. The report shows the region of the country did not matter with decreases in the Northeast, Midwest, South and West.
The FBI report also shows that like violent crime, all offense types in the national property-crime category showed decreases — burglary is down 2.2 percent, larceny-theft down 4 percent, and motor vehicle theft down 5 percent. Like violent crime, these declines occurred in all four regions of the country.
Youngstown also saw declines in most property crime, but the city saw an increase in reported burglaries. There were 1,440 reported burglaries in the first nine months of 2010 compared with 1,538 reported burglaries for the same time frame this year.