While crime trends are mixed this year in the area’s largest suburbs, crime rates in the city of Dayton have declined in seven of the eight major categories compared to last year. Through the first eight months of 2013, violent crime in Dayton — homicide, rape, robbery and aggravated assault — is down 7 percent from last year, according to police statistics. Property crime — residential burglary, arson and two types of theft — is down 12 percent. Dayton’s three largest suburbs — Kettering, Beavercreek and Huber Heights — have much lower overall rates of crime than Dayton. Kettering’s violent crime rate is up slightly this year, to 29 incidents through July, but that is dwarfed by Dayton’s...
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