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U.S. Violent Crime Up

For the first time since 1993.

The rate of violent crime in the U.S. increased last year for the first time since 1993, the Justice Department said Wednesday. The increase was attributed to a 22 percent jump in assaults. The statistics include 3.9 million simple assaults without a weapon and resulted in relatively minor injuries. The category serious violent crime, which includes rape, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault, had a statistically insignificant increase to 1.8 million. In the more violent category, the number of white and Hispanic victims increased, and there were more young men victims—but not young women.

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