• 2: Stockton’s rating for violent crime among California’s 65 largest cities in 2008, according to the FBI.
• 14.7: Stockton’s rate of violent crimes per 1,000 people, second statewide to Oakland for the third year in a row.
• 8: Stockton’s nationwide rating for violent crime in 2008, according to the FBI report released this week. St. Louis had the highest in the nation, followed by Flint, Mich.; Oakland; Detroit; Memphis, Tenn.; Orlando, Fla.; and Baltimore.
• 2.5 percent: Increase in Stockton’s violent crimes — murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults — from 2007 to 2008.
• 45: Number of California cities out of 65 with more than 100,000 residents that saw drops in violent crime.
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