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07-05-2007, 03:30 PM
The DR's Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena says that crime in the DR has gone down considerably. Between January and May 2006 there were a total of 922 murders. During the same period this year there have been 804 murders. This is a decrease of 12.80%. For the same period violent crimes have declined from 24.32% to 20.17%. Homicides are down 678 in 2007, a 16.5% decrease. In 2006 there were 812 homicides. In 2006 there were 2,403 registered violent deaths and the figure lowered to 2,144 in 2006 and in the figure looks to stay low in 2007. In 2005 there were 1,966 registered homicides and in 2006 there were 1,849 homicides. This figure is also expected to decline in 2007.
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