"Some good news for Washingtonians this year: the Metropolitan Police Department reports a sharp drop in murders. The 66 killings in the first six months of 2009 is the lowest murder rate recorded since 1964, and down by 75 percent from the horrific 1991 peak of 481. Not unalloyed good news, though -- the figure suggests a rate of 22.4 murders per every 100,000 people per year, still well above the 5.6-per-100,000 rate for the United States as a whole. In international perspective, both rates are distressingly high."
http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?kaid=108&subid=900003&contentid=255032
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