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Gov't Survey Shows Violent, Property Crime Drop

• AP
  The government's most comprehensive crime survey shows violent and property crimes continue to decrease last year even as the nation's economy slumped, confirming an earlier FBI report.

The National Crime Victimization study, released Wednesday by the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics, showed violent and property crime last year reached the lowest level ever recorded in the survey, which was first published in 1973.

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