| New crime statistics for Grand Forks suggest criminal activity decreased 13% in 2009. In fact overall crimes cam in at a ten-year low. While small increases were noted in rape and robbery cases the number of burglaries...larceny... auto theft...and arson cases fell. There was one murder in the city last year. Police Lt-Jim Remer says the GFPD responded to over 39,000 calls for service in 2009.
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| | Grand Forks County bucked some statewide trends in the 2009 statistical report. Overall crime decreased just over one-percent last year. One area of concern was an eight-percent increase in aggravated assaults. Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says aggravated assaults declined seven-percent in Grand Forks County but it followed a record year in 2008. The number of forcible rapes decreased seven-percent statewide but jumped 20-percent in Grand Forks County.
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