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• Source: KHOU 11 News
• Date: November 14, 2006
• URL: Read the story
• Bylines: Mark Greenblatt
• Topics: Crime
• Data Types: Local Data , Mapping
• Description/Excerpt: 11News Investigates dug through four years of records on every crime in the city and we uncovered an alarming surge in some of them. For example, when we counted the number of assaults with a deadly weapon, not much changed between the first seven months of 2003, with 1,818 incidents and the same time period for 2004, when there were 1,804 incidents. However, in 2005 a surge began with 1,976 incidents, or a 9 percent increase. That surge only accelerated during the first seven months of this year, to 2,209 incidents. All in all, during the last two years combined it added up to a 22 percent increase in this kind of violent crime.