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X_Digger

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38. Interesting that you picked 1992, since the UCR doesn't cover that year.

Reply to Fortinbras Armstrong (Reply #27)

Tue Feb 18, 2014, 03:48 PM

Feb 2014

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Let's compare 1993 to 2013.

http://www.nytimes.com/1995/10/24/us/murder-rate-fell-in-1994-for-3d-consecutive-year-agency-says.html

The homicide rate in 1993 was 10.7 per 100,000. The homicide rate in 2013 (preliminary) was 4.3 per 100,000. That's a 59.8% drop.

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Interesting that you picked 1992, since the UCR doesn't cover that year. X_Digger Feb 2014 #38

The table that I cited started with 1992 Fortinbras Armstrong Feb 2014 #55

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