It has turned around and the murder rate is actually going up again.
Evidently the Centennials are taking up the slack or it might just be
an indication of the demographic changes in the US.
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That and the drug scrouge no doubt. I really think we should adopt
something closer to the European model and give the drugs away free to
registered users.
A couple of the articles I read after starting to look into this do
point out the spike in the murder rate is driven by violence in a
handful of cities.
I also found out the FBI does not really differentiate between
hispanic and white which falsely makes it look like black people are
killing more white people than they do. The article points out these
may just be rivals in Latino drug gangs fighting over turf.