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Crime facts at a glance
Additional firearm crime facts at a glance |
After 1996, less than 10% of nonfatal violent crimes involved firearm.
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- Note: The
violent crimes included are rape and sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated and simple assault.
Victimization rate trends exclude NCVS estimates for 2006 because
of methodological inconsistencies between the data for that year and
the data for other years. Changes to the NCVS and their impact upon
the survey's estimates in 2006 are discussed in the Criminal Victimization, 2006 Technical Notes.
Source:
National Crime Victimization Survey
(NCVS). Ongoing since 1972 with a redesign in 1993, this survey of households
interviews about 147,300 persons age 12 and older in 82,900 households
twice each year about their victimizations from crime.
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