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NYC_SKP

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1. 1 in 25 men, women, babies, and grandmas? I find this figure unfathomable.
Thu Aug 8, 2013, 11:59 PM
Aug 2013

From the FBI:

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Overview

Nationwide, law enforcement made an estimated 12,408,899 arrests in 2011. Of these arrests, 534,704 were for violent crimes, and 1,639,883 were for property crimes. (Note: the UCR Program does not collect data on citations for traffic violations.)...

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/persons-arrested/persons-arrested


US population (2012) was 313,900,000, one-25th of that is 12,556,000. So the numbers are about right but the number of arrests is not going to be the same thing as the number of unique people arrested; many arrests would be for the same person.

Still it's a shocking figure.

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