Do you have a source rage? It is really hard to tell but everything I find says its going up.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18949687/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5480227
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/06/12/crime.rate/index.html
From what it looks like it has been going down for the past few years and then just suddenly jumped back up.