Defense Attorney Tampa, Florida Says Economy Has Nothing to Do With Lower Crime Rates
A defense attorney Tampa, Florida may not be needed as much in 2009 as in previous years even with the high unemployment rates and slumping economy. The annual FBI crime report on the year before was released in August and the numbers were considerably lower for 2008 in nearly all major crimes – these statistics are for the entire United States and not just one particular state.
Once again, for the second straight year in a row, overall violent crimes declined, including a nearly four percent drop in murders and a 2.5 percent dropped in aggravated assaults. As expected in recessionary times, burglary was up, but only by two percent; however car theft plunged by 13 percent according to the report which includes crime statistics from 17,000 law enforcement agencies from around the country.
Some of the other statistics found in this criminal report were that the largest overall declines were recorded in the West, where murder was down 6.8 percent and car thefts fell by nearly 17 percent. The 89,000 rapes recorded in 2008 were the lowest amount in two decades and only 14,180 murders were recorded.
A Tampa injury lawyer as well as DUI attorneys across the nation have been busy with sobriety checkpoints in cities and towns around the country nearly every weekend in order to curtail drinking while driving or driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. It’s to be expected in the recession that people are more depressed and drown their sorrows in alcohol or try to numb themselves with other types of drugs.
In 2008 11,773 people were killed in alcohol related car crashes. This represents a 9.7 percent decrease from 2007 in alcohol impaired driving fatalities.
According to several criminal lawyers, a slight rise in burglaries has nothing to do with the economy and more to do with opportunity. There are many opportunistic burglaries that happen at the spur of the moment because someone is walking past an automobile and season on iPod, iPhone, CDs or cash lying in the open and then they hit the jackpot when they find that the car has been left unlocked. These types of burglaries can be prevented if people would take the time to lock their doors or put their valuables out of sight.