“Rising Urban Homicides Raise Officials’ Concern”

1. They are concerned because if it would have kept on going higher there wouldn’t be enough police officials to handle the overwhelming crime rate and now that it has lowered there isn’t a high demand for police men.

2. Officials can’t draw firm conclusion because the homicide rate keeps rising and lowering significantly.

3. The forces that contributed to a drop in homicide were: more criminals in prisons, innovative police strategies, intense community efforts to work with troubled youths, a waning of the crack cocaine epidemic and a strong economy providing more jobs in impoverished neighborhoods.

4. The cities in the U.S. that have had more than a hundred homicides were five of the seventeen cities that had increased killings.

5. The number of reported homicides last year was 15,600.

6. The percentage of the national total for the seventeen cities accounted for more than twenty five percent...