Crime in Arizona—down again

The Blog for Arizona has posted about the FBI’s new national crime numbers.

The full national overview is here.

Arizona had an extraordinary drop in crimes per 100,000 people, down to 408.3 from 481.2, a 15 percent drop.

That is as opposed to 6 percent nationally.

The chart does not break out kidnappings; Arizona’s uneasy relationship to that particular crime statistic is detailed here.