The U.S. Department of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation just released its annual report, Crime in the United States 2013. The data contained in the new report shows that in 2013, there were an estimated 1,928,465 burglaries, a decrease of 8.6 percent when compared with 2012 data.
In 2010, there were an estimated 2,159,878 burglaries — a decrease of 2.0 percent when compared with 2009 data, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Investigation in its “Uniform Crime Reports: Crime in the United States 2010,” released in September of this year. It’s just one data point of many that comprise a trend of diminishing crime in general.
