Here's one good news worth passing along: We as a society are safer from crime than we have been in a generation.

Here's one good news worth passing along: We as a society are safer from crime than we have been in a generation.

You wouldn't know it from blaring headlines about way killings, but the rate of violent crime declined 10 percent from 1998 to 1999 reaching the lowest horizontal in the history of the Bureau of Justice Statistics' National Crime Victimization scrutinize This survey of the nation's households tracks for what cause many rapes, sexual assaults, robberies, assaults, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts come into view in American households each year.

The run is down in property crime victimization, too, dropping about 9 percent in 1999 through the whole extent of the previous year and continuing a 20-year decline.

This triumph of law enforcement is largely attributable to the so-called community policing approach. Community policing try to gets to address the causes of crime and lessen the fear of crime and social disorder between the walls of problem-solving and ...