Crime in Utah
Claims
"Crime is growing at about 100% a year...."
- Waana, Reasons Why The Mormon Church Is Not True, posted on Recovery from Mormonism, 5/18/2002
Is crime in Utah doubling each year?
Surely this claim is so outrageous that almost anyone would be skeptical. So let's look at the actual crime rates. The chart below shows Utah's crime rate for the last several years. Rates are the number of crimes reported to police per 1,000 residents.
Figure 1. Utah crime rate, 1994-2003.
Sources
Rates are from the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Crime in the United States, 1995-2003.
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