What is the crime rate in Jamaica?

Answer 1

Using FBI standards - which define serious crimes as murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, larcenies and vehicle thefts - Kingston had reports of 718 such incidents in 2008, down 6.3 percent from the 2007 total of 766. In 2006, the number was 854. The number of reported serious crimes in Kingston last topped 1,000 in 2005, when the total was 1,208. The totals were 1,023 in 2004, 1,241 in 2003 and 1,222 in 2002