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Excerpt from A Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Establish a Bill of Rights for Crime Victims: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. J. Res. 52, April 23, 1996
Patricia Pollard is not an isolated example. As I noted earlier, each year 43 mil lion Americans are victims of serious crime, according to the Department of Justice.
According to doj statistics released last week, during 1994 there were mil lion violent crimes, including million simple assaults, million aggravated as saults, million robberies, and rapes or other types of sexual assault. Also, one of every nine persons from 12 through 15 years old was a violent crime victim during 1994.
And just this week, the Clinton Administration reported in Victim Costs and Consequences: A New Look that crime costs Americans at least 450 billion dollars a year. These numbers are staggering and sobering. And they demonstrate the enor mous burden that crime forces its victims to carry.
The breakdown of social order and the crisis of crime that accompany it, have swelled the ranks of criminals, and those who suffer at their hands, to proportions that astonish us, that break our hearts, and that demand collective action. And the process of detecting, prosecuting, and Punishing criminals continues, in to many places in America, to ignore the rights 0 victims of fundamental justice.
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