Many people do not realize that violent crime has been falling in the United States for more than two decades, after rising sharply between the mid-1970s and 1993. In fact, the drop has been so great, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting Statistics, that in 2012, the murder rate was lower than any time since 1963! In 2013 it was lower than any time since the records began in 1960, while violent crimes in general were at their lowest point since 1970.
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