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ROYAL OAK, MI — Sixty-one violent crimes were reported in Royal Oak in 2019, according to the FBI Crime in the United States reported released Monday.
The FBI categorizes as crimes such assaults, murders, rapes and robberies.
A breakdown of the violent crimes reported in Royal Oak in 2019 is below:
CrimeNumber of ReportsViolent crime61Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter1Rape9Robbery4Aggravated assault47Property crime439Burglary38Larceny-theft369Motor vehicle theft32Arson1 Detroit led the nation in violent crimes reported per 100,000 people, with 1,965. Close behind Detroit was St. Louis, Missouri, Memphis, Tennessee, and Baltimore, Maryland.
The city had reported a total of 13,040 violent crimes.
Michigan as a whole saw 43,686 violent crimes reported in 2019. That number is a little over a 3 percent drop from 2018, when 45,176 violent crimes were reported.
In 2019, about 1.2 million violent crimes occurred nationwide, a decrease of 0.5 percent from the 2018 estimate, according to the data.
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