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Crime rate   /kraɪm reɪt/   Listen
Crime rate

noun
1.
The ratio of crimes in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.





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"Crime rate" Quotes from Famous Books



... considerably in 1947. The figure for Negroes climbed to a yearly average of 3.94 incidents per 1,000; the figure for whites, reflecting an even greater gain, reached 1.88. These crime rates were not out of line with America's national crime rate statistics, which, based on a sample of 173 cities, averaged about 3.25 during the same period.[8-2] Nevertheless, the rate was of particular concern to the government because the majority of the civil offenses were perpetuated ...
— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.


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