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[https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/us/with-crime-down-us-faces-legacy-of-a-violent-age-.html by Erik Eckholm 13/1/15 The New York Times] | [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/14/us/with-crime-down-us-faces-legacy-of-a-violent-age-.html by Erik Eckholm 13/1/15 The New York Times] | ||
The new law expanded the death penalty, and offered the states billions of dollars to hire more police officers and to build more prisons. But what was not clear at the time was that violent crime had already peaked in the early ’90s, starting a decline that has cut the nation’s rates of murder, robbery and assault by half. | The new law expanded the death penalty, and offered the states billions of dollars to hire more police officers and to build more prisons. But what was not clear at the time was that violent crime had already peaked in the early ’90s, starting a decline that has cut the nation’s rates of murder, robbery and assault by half. | ||
=====Trump: the murder rate is at a 45-year high. Actual statistics: that’s not remotely true.===== | |||
[https://www.vox.com/2016/10/12/13255466/trump-murder-rate by German Lopez 7/2/17 Vox] | |||
Trump has repeated this lie over and over again. | |||
