Summary
"This report provides the latest information
about violent crime levels in 168 jurisdictions that
responded to PERF’s latest crime survey. In
order to maintain consistency with PERF’s two
previous violent crime reports, which tracked a
smaller sample of 56 jurisdictions, our analysis
of crime trends is based only on the original 56
jurisdictions.
This report also provides details about
changes in policies and programs recently undertaken
to reduce crime in all 168 jurisdictions that
responded to our survey. And it presents the views
of more than 100 chiefs and sheriffs who attended
PERF’s second Violent Crime Summit, held in
suburban Chicago in September 2007, about the
causes of violence, the programs and policies
departments have undertaken to reduce violence,
and which programs and policies policing leaders
believe are most promising."--Page iv.