Crime
According to the National Crime Records Bureau, Uttar Pradesh has the highest number of kidnapping and abduction cases, dowry deaths, and incidences of violent crime, and the highest SLL crime rate of any state in India. In 2011 alone, 4,960 murder cases were reported in Uttar Pradesh along with 2,955 kidnapping and abduction cases. As per the National Crime Records Bureau, the state had a 12.5% share in all kinds of crimes across the country. However, the value of human development index in Uttar Pradesh has steadily increased over time. As of today, Uttar Pradesh has the second largest Civil police force with 107,840 members, accounting for 9.5% of the total civil police in the country.
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Famous quotes containing the word crime:
“No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)
“Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State’s failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.”
—H.G. (Herbert George)
“Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs, though, it’s intimate and psychological—resistant to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.”
—Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)