WASHINGTON - District of Columbia officials are trumpeting what they say is the lowest homicide rate in nearly half a century.
The decline mirrors a nationwide trend of falling rates in major American cities. But it's startling in a city ravaged more than two decades ago by the crack epidemic and where homicides totaled 479 in 1991. There were 108 homicides as of Thursday. He says the number hasn't been that low since the early 1960s.
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Thanks Joe for posting this, just look at the post from earlier regarding the Heller case and you'll see one reason the homicide rate dropped. Second amendment preserves more than freedom, it preserves innocent lives .
Yeah they moved to MD, duh.
Check out the murder rates in PG county. Simply follow where "they" went.
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