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Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Three to 10 years in prison - that's the sentence handed down today to Bill Cosby. The judge declared the 81-year-old actor and comedian a sexually violent predator. He ordered Cosby locked up immediately. Bill Cosby was convicted in April for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Well, after today's sentencing, some of Cosby's other accusers stood in the rain outside the courthouse and welcomed the judge's decision. Lise-Lotte Lublin was one of them. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) LISE-LOTTE LUBLIN: This is just going to show victims that they can make it through and that there's justice at the end and hallelujah. KELLY: Reporter Bobby Allyn of member station WHYY was at the sentencing hearing today in Norristown, Pa., and he joins me now. Hi, Bobby. BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: Hey. KELLY: Start with just a little more detail on what exactly the judge ruled today. ALLYN: So Cosby's

Copyright 2018 WHYY. To see more, visit WHYY . AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Three to 10 years in prison - that's the sentence handed down today to Bill Cosby. The judge declared the 81-year-old actor and comedian a sexually violent predator. He ordered Cosby locked up immediately. Bill Cosby was convicted in April for drugging and sexually assaulting Andrea Constand in 2004. MARY LOUISE KELLY, HOST: Well, after today's sentencing, some of Cosby's other accusers stood in the rain outside the courthouse and welcomed the judge's decision. Lise-Lotte Lublin was one of them. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING) LISE-LOTTE LUBLIN: This is just going to show victims that they can make it through and that there's justice at the end and hallelujah. KELLY: Reporter Bobby Allyn of member station WHYY was at the sentencing hearing today in Norristown, Pa., and he joins me now. Hi, Bobby. BOBBY ALLYN, BYLINE: Hey. KELLY: Start with just a little more detail on what exactly the judge ruled today. ALLYN: So

Violent crime stayed essentially flat last year, according to statistics just released by the FBI. Those crimes were down by 0.2 percent last year, after a sharp increase of more than 5 percent the year before. That means violent crime has essentially plateaued at a level higher than the lows of a few years ago — but is still substantially lower than the high rates of the 1980s and 1990s. As always, there's great regional variability in violent crimes, even within metro areas. The overall uptick of the last few years has been driven in large part by a handful of cities that are suffering through waves of homicide reminiscent of the crack epidemic. Chicago has dominated the headlines in recent years, but things are even worse in St. Louis and Baltimore, where murder rates were on the order of 10 times the national average. Certain states fly high above the mean, too. As New Orleans-based crime statistics analyst Jeff Asher tweeted Monday, Louisiana's murder rate leads the pack even if