Aside from the murders, DC has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
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Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.
Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.
There are a lot of stats and a strong correlation between dropout rates and crime as well as poverty.
Do countries with strong gun control laws have lower murder rates? Only if you cherry-pick the data.
We are the safest large city in America, but any crime rate is too high.
When I worked as a prosecutor in Richmond, Virginia in the 1990s, that city, like so much of America, was experiencing horrific levels of violent crime. But to describe it that way obscures an important truth: for the most part, white people weren't dying; black people were dying. Most white people could drive around the problem.
There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn't drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don't think there's any question that New York City's very tough laws have reduced violence.
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
Crime is actually less in places where people own guns. Washington, D.C., is a case in point. It has the strictest gun laws, but who has the highest crime rate in the country? Washington, D.C.