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By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

From DPIC, a dead-on (forgive the bad pun) analysis of the latest UCR data: The country’s murder rate declined 2.7% in 2007. The rate dropped the most in the Northeast, and declined in the Midwest and the West, but increased in the South. According to the preliminary Uniform Crime Report published by the FBI, violent crime declined generally by 1.4 percent in 2007 in the U.S. ?This report suggests that violent crime is decreasing and remains near historic low levels,? said Peter Carr, Principal Deputy Director of Public Affairs for the Justice Department. (T. Frieden, “FBI: Violent crime down 1.4 percent in 2007“, CNN, June 9, 2008). The overall drop in the murder rate came during the year when the U.S. had the lowest number of executions (42) in 13 years...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on June 12, 2008 (boomark / email).