Florida Department of Law Enforcement Statistics Regarding Crime were release on April 4, 2008:
Overall murder was up by 6.5%
Gun murders were up by 11.5%
Knife murders were down by 24%
Overall robberies were up by 11.7%
Aggravated assaults were down by 1.7%
Burglaries were up 6.3%
Although the actual number of tracked crimes increased by 3.2%, the population increased as well.
(Florida Today Newspaper 04/25/2008)
