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Article: America's ticking crime bomb. (although crime rates have dropped in some areas, violent crime is still a major problem that seems unaffected by longer jail sentences and the death penalty)(United States - Crime)(Brief Article)
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- Canada and the World Backgrounder
- Article date:
- September 1, 1996
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The United States is the world's most violent industrial nation despite being one of the few that clings to the death penalty and has a jail population that is, proportionately, five times that of most of its peers
All through 1993, official agencies claimed that crime was declining in the United States. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said that violent crime in the first six months was down three percent overall, and down eight percent in the Northeast. In 1995, it reported that the U.S. crime rate fell for the fourth straight year as murders reported to the police dropped 8%, from 23,300 killings in 1994. New York reported 1,170 murders in 1995, ...