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For much of the last four decades, rates of deadly violence have been trending downward in the United States. Between the early 1990s and the mid-2010s, the U.S. murder rate fell by more than 50% —...
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In more ways than one, 2020 was an inflection point for violent crime in the United States. That year, the number of reported homicides surged by a record-breaking 30%, topping 20,000 for the first...
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The number of reported homicides in the U.S. spiked by 30% in 2020, the largest single-year increase since record keeping began over half a century ago. Though daily life has returned to normal since...
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