America safer today than it has been for past 40 yearsViolent crime has fallen to its lowest level in 40 years. :: 06/06/2011

America is a safer place. According to The New York Times, "the odds of being murdered or robbed [in the United States] are now less than half of what they were in the early 1990s."

The FBI's Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report for 2010 is based on data collected from more than 13,000 law-enforcement agencies nationwide. The report found a significant 5.5 percent decline in violent crime.

The continued decline in crime seems to fly in the face of accepted theories of criminality. Many legal observers suggested that the recession and high unemployment would usher in higher crime rates - that did not happen. Some suggested that lowering the incarceration rate (in 2010 the number of people in prison fell for the first time in 38 years) would impact crime - it did not. Some said that police lay-offs and law enforcement cut backs would increase crime rates - it has not.

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