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Overview

* Nationwide, an estimated 1,408,337 violent crimes occurred in 2007.
* There were an estimated 466.9 violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants.
* When data for 2007 were compared with 2006 data, the estimated volume of violent crime declined 0.7 percent.
* Aggravated assault accounted for 60.8 percent of violent crimes, the highest number of violent crimes reported to law enforcement. Robbery comprised 31.6 percent and forcible rape accounted for 6.4 percent. Murder accounted for 1.2 percent of estimated violent crimes in 2007.
* In 2007, offenders used firearms in 68.0 percent of the Nation’s murders, 42.8 percent of robberies, and 21.4 percent of aggravated assaults. (Weapon data are not collected for forcible rape offenses.) (Based on Robbery Table 3, Aggravated Assault Table, and Expanded Homicide Data Table 6.)