According to department statistics, 110 people have been shot dead in Hartford so far this year, up from 90 during the same period in 2005.

Reported crime is way down - by 60 percent or more over the past decade, according to department statistics on the three precincts there.

According to department statistics, however, certain crimes are up.

Problems are found in less than 1 percent of the samples, department statistics say.

And most slain officers, department statistics show, are killed by assailants no more than seven feet away.

In 1971, according to department statistics, the police shot and killed 93 people and wounded 221.

According to department statistics, shootings were up 41.8 percent - to 166 from 117 - during the 28-day period that ended Dec. 2.

From 2000 to the present, of the 4,994 firefighters hired, 778 were minority candidates, department statistics show.

But the number of teen-age mothers having babies is also declining, department statistics indicate.

According to department statistics, more than two-thirds of them will be rearrested within seven years.