首页
登录
职称英语
A preliminary 2005 crime report issued yesterday by the Federal Bureau of In
A preliminary 2005 crime report issued yesterday by the Federal Bureau of In
游客
2023-09-13
16
管理
问题
A preliminary 2005 crime report issued yesterday by the Federal Bureau of Investigation shows that the total number of murders in the country went up 4.8 percent from the year before. St. Louis, Houston, Philadelphia and Milwaukee saw an increase in murders, while other cities including New York, Los Angeles and Miami saw a drop.
Among violent crimes, the only decrease was in rapes, which fell 1.9 percent. Robberies increased over all by 4.5 percent. Cities with populations of more than 500,000 had the biggest rise in violent crime, 8.3 percent. In the Midwest, violent crimes increased by 5.7 percent. The data are considered preliminary until the final statistics are released in October.
The increases in violent crime over all come after years of crime reduction efforts all over the country in the 1990’s that are credited with lowering crime rates almost everywhere, especially in the larger urban areas. Law enforcement officials and other experts on crime cautioned that this latest report did not necessarily mean crime would start to run rampant (猖獗的) again.
James Alan Fox, a professor of criminal justice at Northeastern University, said that after the sharp decreases during the 1990’s, the crime rate over all from 2000 to 2004 was essentially flat. "We squeezed all the air out of the balloon after having seven good years of crime decline," Mr. Fox said. "That ended when the 1990’s ended. Now the challenge isn’t so much to make the crime rate go down more, because that’s not necessarily realistic, but the challenge is to make sure that the small bit doesn’t become a big one."
Mr. Fox pointed out that some of the cities where murders rose in 2005 had seen small fluctuations in recent years. Houston, for example, which reported 334 murders in 2005, had 272 in 2004 and 278 the year before. In Memphis, there were 136 murders in 2005, 107 in 2004 and 126 in 2003.
The annual F.B.I. report is drawn from numbers gathered by state and local law enforcement agencies. They measure four violent offenses (murder, rape, robbery and aggravated assault) and four property crimes (burglary, larceny, auto theft and arson). The report does not measure drug crimes.
The report showed that cities with populations of 100,000 to 249,999 had the greatest increase in murders, up 12.5 percent. Cities with 500,000 to 999,999 inhabitants had the greatest increases in both robbery, 9.9 percent, and aggravated assault, 8.5 percent. The number of rapes fell in all city population groups except in those cities with fewer than 10,000 residents; there, the number of rapes was up 1.5 percent from the 2004 level. [br] According to James Alan Fox, the challenge to criminal justice in the U.S.A. is ______.
选项
答案
how to avoid large increase in crime rate
解析
参见文章第4段末:Now the challenge isn’t so much to make the crime rate go down more, because that’s not necessarily realistic, but the challenge is to make sure that the small bit doesn’t become a big one.
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3009482.html
相关试题推荐
Iwokeuplateyesterdaymorning.______(更槽的是,我的车坏了).Worsestill,mybikewasou
[originaltext]ArecentreporthasshownthathereintheUnitedStates,we’
[originaltext]ArecentreporthasshownthathereintheUnitedStates,we’
Thereportsaysthatbythemiddleofthecenturyintheworstcase,nofewertha
Thispieceofwritingis______(与其说短篇小说,不如说更像是新闻报道).morelikeanewsreporttha
[originaltext]M:I’mreallysorry,ProfessorIrwin.Iwassickyesterday.W:Lo
[originaltext]M:I’mreallysorry,ProfessorIrwin.Iwassickyesterday.W:Lo
[originaltext]AndnowfortheMondayMorningweatherreport.Rightnowthe
[originaltext]AndnowfortheMondayMorningweatherreport.Rightnowthe
Accuraterepresentationandreportingisvitalinthemediabecause______.[br]
随机试题
Accordingtothepassage,LosAngelesisacitywhere______.[br]Thepassagei
七夕节(QixiFestival)在农历七月初七庆祝,起源于汉代(theHanDynasty),是一个传统节日。在中国古代传说中,牛郎和织女(co
Hewassocommittedtothe______ofhisfaiththathewasunabletoevaluateth
[originaltext]Forseveralyears,humanresourcesdirectorPeteTapaskarsay
以下自然保护区中,被誉为“华中屋脊”和“绿色宝库”的是()。A.神农架
属于鉴别培养基的是A.血琼脂平板B.葡萄糖肉汤C.庖肉培养基D.MH培养基E.双
某村为新农村规划建设试点村。该村位于城市边缘,所处地区由于城市整体生态环境需要而
细水雾灭火系统喷头的选择及布置正确的是()。A.对于环境条件易使喷头喷孔堵塞的
期货从业人员被解聘或者死亡的,机构应当自上述情形发生之日起10个工作日内向( )
立井井筒施工中,提升系统不包含的设备是()。A.提升容器 B.钩头联结装置
最新回复
(
0
)