Violent Crime and Your Community Fort Myers, FL

Step 1: Before Writing Understand the differences between violent crimes and property crimes from the text. See Table 7.4 in the book (pg. 170) and visit the website below to read about the different elements of each type of crime. https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2012/crime-in-the-u.s.-2012/cius_home Visit the following websites that contain data about major cities in Florida. Find you city and search the data for crime rates https://www.bestplaces.net/find/state.aspx?state=fl http://www.city-data.com/ Write an essay that does the following: 1) Summarizes the data for violent crimes and property crimes 2) Explains how does your community stacks up against the national and state average? 3) Provides your thoughts about the data. Does the data make sense? Does it stack up with your own experiences in your city? 3) Shares a recent crime (violent or property) that you found in the news