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| FDLE STATS SAY CRIME DOWN IN CHARLOTTE |
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WENGNews writes, "THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT RELEASED ITS 2007 CRIME RATE DATA FRIDAY AFTERNOON, AND THE NUMBERS ARE MIXED FOR THE AREA. CHARLOTTE COUNTY SHOWED THE BIGGEST IMPROVEMENT OF THE FIVE COUNTIES COVERED IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA, AS CRIME FELL BY OVER FIFTEEN PERCENT AS COMPARED TO 2006, WITH A LITTLE OVER TWENTY-THREE PERCENT OF CRIMES IN THE COUNTY SOLVED. THE NEWS WAS NOT NEARLY AS GOOD IN SARASOTA COUNTY, AS CRIME ROSE BY NEARLY ELEVEN PERCENT IN ’07, WITH A LITTLE MORE THAN TWENTY-SIX PERCENT OF THE CRIMES COMMITTED IN THE COUNTY SOLVED. DESOTO COUNTY SHOWED THE GREATEST INCREASE IN THE CRIME RATE, AS THEY WERE UP SIXTEEN PERCENT IN ’07, BUT THEY ALSO SHOWED THE HIGHEST CRIME SOLVED RATE AT NEARLY THIRTY-ONE PERCENT. STATEWIDE, CRIMES WERE UP BY ONE POINT FOUR PERCENT, WITH NEARLY TWENTY-THREE PERCENT OF THE CRIMES SOLVED IN 2007. "
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Posted on Apr 07, 2008 06:26am.
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