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U.S. Crime on the Decline, in 2 Charts

Crime rates have gone down since 1991

Source: FBI
Source: FBI
By Roll Call Staff
Posted July 18, 2016 at 10:43pm

While crime has decreased from its height in the 1980s and 90s, incarceration rates peaked in the mid-2000s.  


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