Friday, December 30, 2011

DC touts lowest homicide rate in nearly 50 years - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee

DC touts lowest homicide rate in nearly 50 years - Sacramento News - Local and Breaking Sacramento News | Sacramento Bee: "District of Columbia officials say the city is on course to record 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 that was ravaged by the crack epidemic two decades ago 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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