The State - News from May 29, 1987
California’s crime rate rose 7.5% last year, said the state attorney general’s Bureau of Criminal Statistics, but that was mainly because recent legislation provided for the reporting of domestic violence as criminal activity. Consequently, the aggravated assault category shot up 35.6%, driving the rate for all reported violent crime up by 20.1%.
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