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LOS ANGELES — Years of recession and a slow economic recovery could lead to a decrease in the number of police officers, the first such drop in a quarter of a century, Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. warned Monday.
The dire prediction, contained in a Department of Justice report, comes on the heels of a Federal Bureau of Investigation report that the overall crime statistics for 2010 had dropped, continuing a recent trend. Violent crime fell 6 percent from 2009 to 2010, the fourth consecutive year of such declines, and property crime fell 2.7 percent from 2009, marking the eighth consecutive annual decrease, the bureau said.
