The United States has been one of the most crime-infested communities. There is severe discontent over serious violations of peoples' rights by the police with utter disregard for people's lives, liberty and personal safety.
America is a country seriously plagued by violence and crimes. According to figures released in June 2003 by the U.S. Federal Criminal Police (FBI), 11.9 million criminal cases were recorded in the United States in 2002, including murder, rape and robbery. Of those cases reported 19,940 cases in Detroit, where 2,073 people per 100,000 inhabitants committed the crimes. In Baltimore, there were 2,055 crimes per 100,000 inhabitants. With regard to violence against persons, the number of murders and rapes rose by 0.8 and 4.0 percent through 2002.
The U.S. Surgeon General Richard Carmona at a conference stated that the U.S. had always been first in the world in terms of frequency (incidence) of murder. The U.S. Department of Justice found 15,586 murders across the country in 2000, 15,980 in 2001 and 16,110 in 2002, representing an upward trend year by year.
In a report released by the FBI in December 2003, the FBI says that the overall incidence of offenses in the U.S. fell slightly, while the number of people who were murdered rose by 1.1 percent in the first half.
From January to August 2003, reported 166 murders in Washington DC, an increase of 5.1 percent from last year. In Chicago, which is known as the U.S. 'murder capital', there were 648 murders compared with 599 in 2003, or an average of 22.2 murder victims per 100,000 residents (AP dispatch from Chicago, 010,104). In New York the total number of murders was 596. In California, the number of murders in 2002 rise up to 11 percent. U.S. Justice Policy Institute believes that the existing regulatory system can ensure social safety of citizens and health.
United States comes in first place in terms of the private possession of firearms, which resulted in a sharp increase in the number of firearms-related crimes. According to a survey of crime, reports say that 350,000 criminal cases involving the use of firearms in the United States firearms were used in 63% of the 15,980 killings. On 27 August 2003 broke an unemployed man with a rifle spare parts business and killed 7 of his former colleagues. Figures from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics show that 56.5% of suicides in 2000 were made with firearms, a total of 16,586 people
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