property crimes drop News

According to the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, the nation experienced a 1.2 percent increase in the number of violent crimes and a 0.8 percent decline in the number of property crimes in 2012 when compared with data from …

Santa Fe, N.M., police say the number of property crimes in April is a 10-year low for a single month in Santa Fe. Authorities in the northern New Mexico city began keeping monthly totals for burglaries in 2003. Police Chief …