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#EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff
February 7, 2017 – Donald Trump stated the murder rate in America had reached a 47-year peak. This was not true. While there had been a slight increase in murders from 2014 to 2015, the murder rate for both years was still more than 40 percent lower than it had been 47 years ago.
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#EightYearsAgoToday #AreYouBetterOff
In 1970, there were nearly 8 murders per 100,000 people in America; in 2015, the latest year with full data collected by the FBI, that number had fallen to 4.9 murders per 100,000 people.
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https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/07/politics/donald-trump-murder-rate-fact-check/index.html
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Cameras everywhere. We haven't gotten any nicer.
@Nazani @DemocracyMattersALot the same has happened in Britain and rest of Europe - the rate of murder and other serious crime (at least in public/open spaces) *has* fallen mostly because of better forensics and evidence from CCTV, dashcams etc- those who commit them are nicked and sent to prison fairly quickly.
Also removal of lead in petrol/gasoline has had an effect in reducing impulsive behaviour that can lead to violence..