Drug, Property Cases Top State Felonies
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Drug offenders accounted for nearly a third of the 872,200 felony convictions in state courts in 1994, the Justice Department reported. Property crimes made up nearly another third. Violent crimes were responsible for less than one in five state felony convictions that year, the department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics reported. The number of state felony convictions actually declined from the 1992 total of 893,600 but remained well above the 667,400 in 1988, the year the bureau began this biennial study.
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