The United States Department of Justice agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is not only a federal criminal investigative body but also an internal intelligence agency that is involved in counterintelligence. This Washington D.C headquartered agency has a number of priorities and missions in line that have changed over time and will keep amending in the coming years. The top most ones include protecting the United States from terrorist attacks, protecting United States against foreign intelligence operations and espionage, protecting civil rights, combating public corruption at all levels, supporting federal, state, local and international partners and many others. Every year FBI crime statistics are released in order to check the performance of the organizations.
The agency has been successful in eradicating some percentage crime of crime form United States but it keeps adding to its aims and objectives so the cycle seems never ending. FBI crime statistics give a comprehensive picture about violent and property crime taking place in the country and also the world over a specific period of time. They give information about the volume plus rate at which offensive activities are being experienced by the local people and foreigners in the United States and other cities and countries of the world. Also included in such reports is data about arrest, clearance and law enforcement regarding cases.
According to FBI crime statistics, the expected level of crime throughout United States fell in year 2011 as compared to the previous year. This means that violence and property based crimes are falling over time as the same sort of data was provided in the years that have passed. Reports are usually combined and submitted by a long list of recognized cities, counties, universities, state, tribal and federal law enforcement agencies that number around eighteen thousand. The data would include information about murders, manslaughters, rapes, robberies, aggravated assaults, burglaries, larceny thefts, motor vehicle thefts and arsons.
One of the report published lately mentioned that total number of crimes registered in the year of 2011 were are 10,329,135, with aggravated assault being the top one in violent crimes category. In the property crime line, larceny theft turned out to be the one committed most. It continues writing that top three crimes as per FBI crime statisticsare drugs abuse violations, driving while drunk and larceny theft.
FBI crime statistics
Washington Post once published that FBI built a vast repository, controlled by people who worked in a top secret vault on the fourth floor of the J Edgar Hoover FBI Building. It continued writing that the store has profiles of tens of thousands of Americans and legal residents who are not accused of any crime, what they have done is appear to be acting suspiciously to a town sheriff, a traffic cop or been a neighbor. FBI crime statistics are considered the most reliable being presented in the current point of time. The agency has remained very active in fighting against crime and plans to continue this war in the approaching times.