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Crime stats released – Metro US

Crime stats released

Police in HRM released third-quarter crime statistics yesterday and they show violent crime is down 4.7 per cent through the first nine months of 2010.

But overall crime compared with this same period last year is up 4.1 per cent, in part because of an 8.3 per cent increase in property crime.

“We are certainly not where we’d like to be, particularly as it relates to property crime,” said police spokeswoman Theresa Rath. “We feel we need the public to assist us, because really property crimes represent crimes of opportunity.”