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re: How one can even start to discuss this shooting w/o accepting the following FACTS?
Posted on 2/15/18 at 9:37 am to Iosh
Posted on 2/15/18 at 9:37 am to Iosh
quote:Only following a meteoric increase the preceeding 15 years or so: FBI UCS Crime Reports 1960-2016 (scroll down for rates per 100,000 population)
Statistics for violent crime as a whole have dropped significantly over the last 40 years.
I find this data particularly interesting, since I was born in 1960. The odds of being murdered are about the same now as then, but a lot of that is related to the advanced medical technology keeping people alive following violent assaults that would have killed them 58 years ago. In comparison, check out the rates for other forms of violent crime:
Armed robbery: 58% increase
Aggravated assault: 288% increase
Forcible rape: 308% increase
The bad news is that there has been a recent uptick in all of these crimes in the last 3 years. Hopefully it doesn't become a trend.
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