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State: Crime dips in Florida
Also down in Flagler County, prosaic in Volusia
Wire as well as Staff Report
May 1, 2012 12:20 AM Posted in: Crime - East Volusia - Florida Tagged:crime Local census data

VOLUSIA COUNTY: Population 495,400, a crime rate was probably unvaried with a 0.1 percent increase. There were 4,183 crimes reported in 2011 compared to 4,181 in 2010.

FLAGLER COUNTY: Population 96,241, saw a 5.4 percent diminution in crime. There were 2,468 crimes reported in 2011 compared to 2,611 in 2010.

Note: The crime rate is formed upon 100, 000 race

SOURCE: Florida Department of Law Enforcement

State statistics

County profiles
TALLAHASSEE -- Florida's crime rate dipped somewhat in 2011, with a dump in a series of aroused crimes offsetting increases in burglaries as well as larcenies, according to a annual crime census data inform expelled Monday by a Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

In Volusia County, a crime rate was probably unchanged, whilst Flagler County saw a diminution of 5.4 percent in a series of crimes reported.

The sum series of crimes tracked by a state group forsaken 0.1 percent, though a enlarge in race meant which a crime rate forsaken 0.8 percent. Overall, aroused crimes forsaken by 3.7 percent to 98,183. That's 3,724 fewer aroused crimes than a year prior to as well as scarcely 33,000 fewer than 2007. Nonviolent crimes augmenting by 2,686 to 671,297, or 0.4 percent.

But a series of crimes compared to a state's race was a lowest it's been given a group proposed tracking crime census data 41 years ago. The group marks murders, influential sex offenses, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries, larcenies as well as engine car thefts.

"We began tracking those crimes in 1971 as well as Floridians have been safer currently than during any alternative time given which date," pronounced group Commissioner Gerald Bailey.

Florida had 985 murders in 2011, a dump of dual from a year before. Of those, 691 were committed with a firearm. Similarly, influential sex offenses were scarcely a same as a year before, with 9,886 reported in 2011, or 6 fewer than a year before. Aggravated assaults forsaken by 5 percent.

In Volusia, there were 4,183 crimes reported in 2011 compared to 4,181 in 2010. Flagler's numbers decreased from 2,611 in 2010 to 2,468 crimes in 2011.

At a time when there have been arguments about either Florida should dissolution it's "stand your ground" self-defense law, Bailey pronounced pardonable homicides committed by in isolation adults enlarge from 40 to 48 in 2011.

Bailey additionally remarkable which a series of made during home attack crimes have forsaken 1.5 percent during a time when it's augmenting elsewhere in a country. And that's notwithstanding a 65 percent enlarge in elementary stalking in made during home cases, from 392 in 2010 to 647 final year.

"One thing that's happened is which a citizens, a public, have been some-more wakeful of a stalking laws," Bailey said. "They're some-more supportive to stalkers either they be cyber stalkers or earthy stalkers. So which really plays a purpose in it."

-- The Associated Press as well as Staff Writer Patricio G. Balona contributed to this report.

Florida's rate of "index crimes" forsaken by 0.08 percent, to a 41-year low. Index crimes have been deliberate a many critical as well as embody murder, influential sex offenses, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, robbery as well as car theft.