Essay On Aggravated Assault

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The serious crime I chose to rank the big cities with is aggravated assault. Aggravated assault can be defined as an unlawful attack by one person upon another for the purpose of inflicting severe bodily injury (Uniform Crime Report, 2014). This type of assault is usually accompanied by the use of a weapon or by other means likely to produce bodily harm that results in death. According to the FBI’s uniform crime reporting statistics, there were approximately 724, 149 aggravated assaults in the United States, with approximately 229.1 per 100,00 inhabitants (Uniform Crime Report, 2014). Of the aggravated assault offenses reported to law enforcement officials, it was determined that 27 percent were committed with a personal weapon, firearms were used in 21.6 percent of the assaults and knives or other cutting instruments were used in 19.1 percent of the assaults (Uniform Crime Report, 2014). After using the UCR statistical data tool, I discovered Detroit to remain within the top two in ranking for murder, robbery and aggravated assaults. The city of Detroit rated number one for aggravated …show more content…

These cities include, Albuquerque with 502.2, and Washington D.C. with 514.2.The cities that remained in the top ten for both criminal offenses include Atlanta with 657.4, Miami with 612.3 and philadelphia with 514,2 per 100,000. The remaining big cities fell below the top 10 mark with less than 500.00 per 100,000 inhabitants (U.S. Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation [FBI], (2017). In conclusion, some of the cities held their rank with murder and aggravated assaults while others dropped. The most obvious to hold its rank was the city of Detroit because it ranked high in murder as well as aggravated assaults. Nevertheless, aggravated assault is a serious violent offense in all of the big cities and measures should be taken to reduce its

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