FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN AROW…..SERIOUS CRIME HAS DECREASED IN THE COMMONWEALTH…..AS THE “20-25 CRIME IN KENTUCKY REPORT”….SHOWS SERIOUS
CRIME DROPPED BY MORE THAN EIGHT-PERCENT COMPARED TO 20-24…..
OF THE 23-CATEGORIES OF SERIOUS CRIME…..17 SAW A DECREASE IN CRIMES REPORTED…… INDICATING AN OVERALL DECREASE OF EIGHT-POINT-14 PERCENT
IN REPORTS OF SERIOUS, CATEGORY “A” CRIME…..AS THERE WAS A DECREASE OF 11-POINT-25-PERCENT IN DRUG/NARCOTIC OFFENSES……AND A 15-POINT-64
PERCENT DROP IN HOMICIDEOFFENSES……
CLASS “A” FELONIES INVOLVE HIGH-LEVEL DRUG TRAFFICKING, FIRST DEGREE RAPE, MURDER AND ARSON……AND GENERALLY CARRY A SENTENCE OF 20-TO-
50 YEARS IN PRISON……