Is America Dying?

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by rkzenrage

You can look them up for yourself here...
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/viort.htm

Reread this source.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=5480227

Violent crime across the nation is up. For the first time since 2001

It was going down for a while, as shown on your graph, then spiked up in 2006.


Your sources, and as you've pointed out, say that the last fully tabulated year was in 2005, but finding are starting to show that the US has recently started to become more violent.

You can't really say either side is right because we had a low downfall in violent crime and then recently shot up so it is hard to tell if it is a change in trend or just a fluke.