THE WHITE HOUSE: Statement by the President.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-24 November 1998-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Statement by the President (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:221198 The 1997 Uniform Crime Report released by the FBI today shows that murder, rape, robbery, assault, and even juvenile crime fell across the board last year.

Serious crime has now fallen for six years in a row. With the murder rate down by more than 25 percent since I took office, and now at its lowest level in three decades, Americans are safer today than they have been in many years. Our strategy of putting more police on the beat and getting guns off the street is working. Americans have taken back their neighborhoods, and shown that rising crime and deadly violence need not be tolerated. But in far too...