Today, the national crime rate is about half of what it was at its height in 1991. Violent crime has fallen by 51 percent since 1991, and property crime by 43 percent. In 2013 the violent crime rate was the lowest since 1970.
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The Brennan Center recently issued a report examining 14 theories for why crime declined in the U.S. so dramatically since the early 1990s. According to our empirical analysis, the greatest contributing factors in the crime drop were aging population, changes in income, and decreased alcohol consumption.
HuffPo
So why do a growing number of our police forces look like this?
Police at the GOP Convention in Cleveland 2016
Police at the Dem Convention in Chicago 1968
1970 Viet Nam protest
2014-2016:
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