While assaults with guns also decreased last year, overall assaults increased.
The government's bulletin on prison safety shows that overall, assaults in prisons and young offenders institutions rose 10% in the year to the end of June 2014, from 14,045 to 15,441.
Overall, the assault hot spots have more weekend late night/early morning temporal trends compared the robbery trends, which occur more often on weekdays and afternoons/early evenings.
The report also says that overall violent assaults have fallen.
Overall robbery and assault rates in the U.S. are comparable to those in other developed countries, such as Australia and Finland, with much lower levels of gun ownership.
Since that decision, the "imminent threats" posed by young black men have skyrocketed (according to police), even as the overall rate of assault and other violent crime has plunged.
Figure 3 illustrates this finding, suggesting that the intervention effect shown in Table 2 occurred via the anticipated mechanism of reducing the overall number of assaults in the CBD without causing displacement to nearby Hamilton after 3 a.m. or 3.30 a.m. closing.
But the police said that overall crime, including rape, robbery and assault, had declined by 2.37percentt during the same period.
A US study of 68 women who had worked in the sex trade for at least 6 months, found that half had been physically assaulted by clients; overall one-sixth experienced such assaults several times a year.
"BPD's response to reports of sexual assault is, overall, grossly inadequate," the report reads.
