D.C. Touts Lowest Homicide Rate In Nearly 50 Years

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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