Violent crime rates in the US are at a 40-year low, declining over 50% since the 1990s despite economic hardships. Homicide rates vary globally, with El Salvador, Honduras, and Jamaica having the highest rates. New York City’s homicide rates dropped significantly, and violent crime rates have decreased across racial and age divisions.
Violent crime rates in the United States are at a nearly 40-year low, having declined more than 50% since the early 1990s. Criminologists are baffled, because crime rates tend to rise during economic hardships like the 2008 recession. Violent crimes include homicide, rape, assault and robbery.
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When considered in terms of homicides, the countries with the highest crime rates include El Salvador, Honduras and Jamaica. Countries with the lowest rates of willful homicide include Palau, Monaco and Iceland.
In New York City, homicide rates dropped from about 2,500 per year in 1990 to less than 600 per year for most of the 2000s.
U.S. violent crime rates have declined across both racial and age divisions, although blacks continue to experience the highest rates of violent crime.
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