By 1993, the violent crime rate was more than four and a half times the level of 1960.
Anchorage suffers the highest violent crime rate in the state, (812 reported for every 100, 000 residents) in addition to a staggeringly high incidence of rape.
Miami still has a staggeringly high violent crime rate (seventh worst in the U.S.), but it also benefitted from a recovering housing market with home prices up 11% in 2012.
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"I think if you look at the overall violent crime rate that the FBI rate disseminates annually, it's been decreasing steadily nationwide over the last few decades, " said spokesman Andrew Arulanandam.
It found the violent crime rate in the UK fell faster than the European average and was down by about one quarter - from 1, 255 per 100, 000 people in 2003, to 933 in 2012.
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But just as the crack cocaine epidemic had driven up the murder and violent crime rate in the 80s, some suggest its decline in the nineties was a more convincing explanation for the big falls in crime.
Yet even as they wrote, the violent-crime rate had already begun to fall.
Overall, America's violent-crime rate is at its lowest level in around 40 years, and its murder rate at its lowest in almost 50.
It is explained neither by a difference in criminality (the English are slightly more criminal than Americans, though less murderous), nor by the success of the policy: America's violent-crime rate is higher than it was 40 years ago.
Yet if, in 1980, someone had predicted that by 2012 New York City would have a crime rate so low that violent crime would have largely disappeared as a subject of conversation, he would have seemed not so much hopeful as crazy.
The President asked the Vice President to lead this effort in part because he wrote and passed the 1994 Crime Bill that helped law enforcement bring down the rate of violent crime in America.
One piece of evidence supporting this is the falling rate of violent crime in states permitting honest citizens to carry concealed handguns.
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The detection rate for violent crime was 80.9%, robbery 73.6% and vandalism 29%, which the force said are all on or above target.
Much of Arizona's talk about violent crime is exaggerated (the crime rate is falling), but it is true that its porous border has turned it into America's chief corridor for people- and drug-trafficking from Mexico.
The City of Angels is home to the fourth highest crime rate of the 50 cities measured with more than 20, 000 violent crimes committed in 2011 according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report and an unemployment rate of 10.3%, nearly three points higher than the national average.
"Many South Africans live in fear of violent crime, there's a high crime rate in the country and South Africans are often on edge in their home, particularly in the early hours of the morning when they hear noise, " Mr Silke told the BBC.
Though some types of crime have gone down, the rate of violent house robbery has doubled in the past five years.
Pomona is typical of several schools relaying its crime numbers to the OPE--76 of its 87 reported crimes were burglaries, resulting in a high per capita crime rate of 57 per thousand despite virtually no violent incidents.
The city's violent-crime epidemic shows no signs of waning, with a murder rate far ahead of its nearest American rival.
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Their accounting shows a 49 percent decline in the homicide rate, and a 75 percent decline of non-fatal violent crime victimization.
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According to the largest study of released prisoners, conducted by the Bureau of Justice, the re-arrest rate for sex offenders is lower than that for perpetrators of any violent crime except murder.
Total recorded crime increased at an underlying rate of 2% in 2001-02, with some violent crimes increasing faster: robbery, for instance, rose by 27%.
Camden had the highest crime rate in the country in 2008, according to CQ Press, with 2, 333 violent crimes for every 100, 000 people.
Full legalization would drastically reduce the amount of money flowing to drug lords and violent organizations (the line between drug lords and terrorists is extremely fuzzy or nonexistent), reducing the crime rate and hopefully helping Mexico a little.
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