This article pretty much says it all:
http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/...ublic-unaware/
I didn't read through all of it, but in general violent crime is dropping heavily.
As an interesting note to this:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknap...rime-epidemic/
There is an interesting theory that environmental lead (in particular lead in gasoline and to some degree paint) is the cause of the huge spike in violence.
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