{"id":102664,"date":"2015-02-12T15:08:55","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T21:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=102664"},"modified":"2017-04-17T09:34:43","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T14:34:43","slug":"160-increase-in-crime-bismarck-police-says-no-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/102664\/160-increase-in-crime-bismarck-police-says-no-way","title":{"rendered":"160% Increase In Violent Crime: Bismarck Police Says No Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release, Bismarck Police are setting the record straight on\u00a0a reported spike in violent crime.<\/p>\n<p>Several media outlets, including USA Today and the Huffington Post,\u00a0are\u00a0reporting that violent crime in Bismarck grew by roughly 160% between 2009-2013.<\/p>\n<p>According to the press release, the Bismarck Police Department cites FBI statistics that\u00a0reveals an increase of\u00a014.3% over the same period&#8230; from 257.7 violent crimes per 100,000 people to 294.6. Still a startling\u00a0increase, but nowhere near the alleged 160% figure.<\/p>\n<p>Bismarck Police statstic sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about-us\/cjis\/ucr\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2013\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013\/tables\/table-8\/table-8-state-cuts\/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_north_dakota_by_city_2013.xls\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/about-us\/cjis\/ucr\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2013\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2013\/tables\/table-8\/table-8-state-cuts\/table_8_offenses_known_to_law_enforcement_north_dakota_by_city_2013.xls<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.fbi.gov\/ucr\/cius2009\/data\/table_08_nd.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www2.fbi.gov\/ucr\/cius2009\/data\/table_08_nd.html<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a press release, Bismarck Police are setting the record straight on\u00a0a reported spike in violent crime. Several media outlets, including USA Today and the Huffington Post,\u00a0are\u00a0reporting that violent crime in Bismarck grew by roughly 160% between 2009-2013. According to the press release, the Bismarck Police Department cites FBI statistics that\u00a0reveals an increase of\u00a014.3% over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,2410,216],"tags":[1132,328,1064],"class_list":["post-102664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-crime-news","category-featured","tag-bismarck-police","tag-crime","tag-ticker"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}