The Arizona Republic, June 10, 2009 by JJ Hensley
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/06/10/20090610ucrstats0610.html
Police say the vast majority of those crimes are the result of drug-and-human smuggling operations, which should make the overall decline in violent crime more significant to most Valley residents and visitors, said Frank Zimring…. “There is no inconsistency between that subtrend and the larger population statistics on crimes that are going down. They’re just two different scales,” he said. “Unless you get kidnapped, then you don’t worry about that trend.”