State crime at 33-year low

[Freddie Stubbs]

BY MARY ELLEN KLAS

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TALLAHASSEE - Every day of last year, there were on average three murders in Florida, a robbery every 16 minutes, a burglary every three minutes and five seconds, and a forcible sex act every 41 minutes.

Those statistics -- averages compiled by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's ''Crime Clock'' -- are better than they appear, state officials said Tuesday, because serious crime was down in Florida for the 12th straight year in 2003.

When Florida's population growth of 600,000 people is factored in, crime dropped 4.3 percent last year, Gov. Jeb Bush and law enforcement officials announced, a measure that brings the crime rate to a 33-year low.

It is ''the lowest crime rate since the creation of the crime rate index,'' the governor said. He attributed the continuous decline to good laws, good prosecutions and good work by law enforcement.

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[RobertSeattle]

1. Katherine Harris moving to DC probably helped too

:evilgrin:

[7th_Sephiroth]

2. i said this on another thread

Perhaps its cause tommy vercetti left vice city to take over in liberty city, that or the cops just not giving a damn now, and not doing anything

[lpbk2713]

3. It's all smoke and mirrors. Manipulation of data.

Jebbie did the same thing with the education stats and was proved wrong.

[RebelOne]

4. Wow, glad to hear that.

I lived in South Florida during the Mariel boatlifts when Castro opened all his prisons. After that, the crime rate soared in Miami.