By Will Greenlee

FORT PIERCE — Serious crimes investigated by Fort Pierce police dropped about 11 percent last year when compared to 2008, continuing an overall trend that began years ago, police stated this week.

The total number of crimes in the categories of homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny/theft and motor vehicle theft investigated by police in 2009 dropped to 3,027 from 3,413 the year before.

Crimes in all categories other than homicide and larceny/theft dropped, with a particularly large decrease coming in the number of robberies, which went from 234 in 2008 to 134 last year.

Other categories with sizable decreases were rapes, which decreased to 47 last year from 69 in 2008, and aggravated assaults, which went from 484 in 2008 to 330 last year.

Homicides, however, doubled from the four in 2008 to eight last year. The number of incidents in the category of larceny/theft also increased, going from 1,628 to 1,653.

According to a release, crime in Fort Pierce peaked in 1985 and generally has been decreasing since then.

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