PEOPLE & SOCIETY • CRIME, SAFETY & RULE OF LAW
That’s the U.S. murder rate per 100,000 people last year. The FBI dropped the full report two weeks ago, and somehow your nightly news didn’t lead with it. That 4.1 ties 1955 and 1956 — Eisenhower in the White House, gas at 29 cents, your grandmother leaving the front door unlocked. The year-over-year decline in murders was 18.1%… the single largest drop since the FBI started estimating in 1936. And it wasn’t just big cities. Every region. Every population size. All down.
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The last time Americans were this safe from murder, there were 48 states.
