The latest FBI report on crime in the United States is out. Both the violent crime rate and the murder rate in the United States went down. The violent crime rate went from 473.6 to 466.9 and the murder rate went from 5.7 to 5.6.
The lowest violent crime rate was in the Northeast at 372.4, followed by the Midwest at 411.2, then the West at 463.7 and, as usual, bringing up the rear was the South at 549.2. The violent crime rate went down in all regions except the South where it rose.
The Northeast also had the lowest murder rate at 4.1, followed by the Midwest at 4.9, then the West at 5.3 and, as usual, way behind the pack was the South with a rate of 7.0. Again, the South was the only region where the murder rate went up! Explain to me again how the death penalty and executing folks are deterrents?
New Jersey became the first state to eliminate the death penalty through legislative action a while back so the murder rate there must have sky rocketed right? WRONG! The murder rate went down from 4.9 to 4.4!
What about Texas, the execution capital of the United States? No change. The murder rate held steady at 5.9.
Just to put things in perspective, Louisiana had a murder rate of 14.2. It’s the only state with a murder rate over 10. Puerto Rico had a murder rate of 18.5 (but at least it went down from 18.8) and, my favorite, the District of Columbia had a murder rate of a whopping 30.8!
To put that in perspective, New York City, that hive of scum and villainy, had a murder rate of only 6.0 (don’t believe everything you see on T.V.), Los Angeles, that other hive of scum and villainy, a rate of 10.2, Dallas a rate of 16.1 and Atlanta a rate of 26.0 Then there’s always Newark with a murder rate that tops even D.C. at 37.1.
My town had a murder rate of 0.0 and a violent crime rate of 0.4.
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