Update: 10/17/2012
The Richmond Times Dispatch is reporting that violent crimes across the United States actually increased by 18% in 2012, from the year before. I'll be looking into how the statistics break down in Virginia. But this is definitely a bad trend.
Even with a population of over 1 million people, Fairfax has long been perceived as a fairly safe place to live. But is that always going to be the case? The findings of a report on domestic violence certainly do not paint an optimistic picture.
The Richmond Times Dispatch is reporting that violent crimes across the United States actually increased by 18% in 2012, from the year before. I'll be looking into how the statistics break down in Virginia. But this is definitely a bad trend.
Even with a population of over 1 million people, Fairfax has long been perceived as a fairly safe place to live. But is that always going to be the case? The findings of a report on domestic violence certainly do not paint an optimistic picture.
According to the 2010 Family and Intimate partner Homicide Report, domestic and family related homicides increased by 22.3% between 2009 and 2010 across the state. Sadly Northern Virginia did not emerge unscathed. As a whole the Northern Virginia region, which includes Fairfax County went from 20 family related domestic homicides in 2009 to 25 in 2010. This figure includes incidents between spouses and former spouses, as well as violence against children.
Despite the surge in domestic related homicide, the overall homicide rate in Virginia declined over that same period by about 4.6%.
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