Crime on Oahu fell by 3 percent last year, the fourth straight year major criminal offenses dropped, according to the FBI's annual report, Crime in the United States. Of the eight major offenses, murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, theft, car theft and arson, only burglary and murder increased from 2006 to 2007.

There were 39,810 crimes reported on Oahu last year, compared with 41,055 in 2006, 44,953 in 2005 and 46,628 in 2004.

There were 17 murders in 2006, compared to 19 in 2007. There were 5,482 burglaries in 2006 compared to 5,777 in 2007.

The number of property crimes fell from 38,310 in 2006 to 37,197 in 2007. After violent crime increased by the largest amount in five years in 2006, offenses fell from 2,745 in 2006 to 2,613 last year.

Nationally the number of violent crimes declined by 1.4 percent from 2006, reversing two years of rising violent crime numbers. Violent crime had climbed 1.9 percent in 2006 and 2.3 percent in 2005.