Youth Violent Crime Rate is Down

	1
1980	34.9
1981	40.3
1982	33.4
1983	33.6
1984	33.7
1985	30.2
1986	29
1987	31.3
1988	34.3
1989	33.8
1990	39.1
1991	39.9
1992	44.4
1993	52
1994	47
1995	36.3
1996	35.5
1997	30.7
1998	26.5
1999	26.1
2000	17.2
2001	19.3
2002	11.2
2003	14.9
2004	13.6
2005	17.1
2006	17.4
2007	10.9
2008	13.7
2009	11.2
2010	9.5

Violent crime rate per 1,000 youth ages 12-17

Sources: childstats.gov childstats.gov