usatoday30.usatoday.com — VICTIMS AND CRIMINALS Year Murders Victims witharrest records 1997 303 74% 2007-1 205 91% 1 -- through Aug. 28 By Julie Snider, USA TODAY By Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY Police increasingly explore criminal pasts of homicide victims as well as suspects as they search for sources of the violence, which has risen the past two years after a decade of decline, according to the FBI's annual measures of U.S.