By the Numbers: Revisiting '06 D.C. Crime Stats

ACCORDING TO NEWLY REVISED data, crime rose by 9 percent in the District last year from the Metropolitan Police Department. A preliminary analysis originally estimated that crime had dropped in 2006, but after inquiries from The Post, police released revised statistics that tell a different story.

As The Post's Allison Klein reported on Saturday, although D.C. police initially claimed that the city's violent crime levels decreased in 2006, the new data shows increases in aggravated assault, robbery and sexual assault.

Here's the story, by the numbers ...

» 9 percent: The overall increase in violent crime in the District last year.
» 15.5 percent: The increase in aggravated assaults last year.
» 3 percent: The increase in robberies last year.
» 14 percent: The decrease in homicides last year.
» 10 percent: The increase in sexual assaults last year.

» 169: The number of murders in the District last year.
» 479: The number of murders in the District in 1991, during the height of the crack cocaine epidemic.

» "New D.C. Data Alter Violent Crime Tally" [WaPo]