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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: arno who wrote (78175)	6/18/2018 11:49:46 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 362049

Not where I live.

To: arno who wrote (78175)	6/19/2018 12:02:18 AM
From: Sam	2 Recommendations Recommended By bentway Wharf Rat Respond to of 362049

There's rampant gang violence here, too. That is just crazy talk. In a few areas there is gang violence. But for the most part, there is not "rampant gang violence" in the US. Even the much ballyhooed MS 13 only has maybe 10,000 members in the entire US. You guys just make stuff up all the time. 5 facts about crime in the U.S. By John Gramlich January 30, 2018 Donald Trump made crime fighting an important focus of his campaign for president, and he cited it again during his January 2017 inaugural address. As the administration takes steps to address violence in American communities, here are five facts about crime in the United States. 1Violent crime in the U.S. has fallen sharply over the past quarter century. The two most commonly cited sources of crime statistics in the U.S. both show a substantial decline in the violent crime rate since it peaked in the early 1990s. One is an annual report by the FBI of serious crimes reported to police in approximately 18,000 jurisdictions around the country. The other is an annual survey of more than 90,000 households conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, which asks Americans ages 12 and older whether they were victims of crime, regardless of whether they reported those crimes to the police. Using the FBI numbers, the violent crime rate fell 48% between 1993 and 2016. Using the BJS data, the rate fell 74% during that span. (For both studies, 2016 is the most recent full year of data.) It’s important to note that the FBI reported a 7% increase in the violent crime rate between 2014 and 2016, including a 20% rise in the murder rate —from 4.4 to 5.3 murders per 100,000 residents. The BJS figures do not show an increase in the violent crime rate between 2014 and 2016, but they do not count murders. The BJS figures for 2016 also reflect a survey redesign, making it difficult to compare directly to prior years. continues at pewresearch.org