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According to the FBI, the murder rate declined by 8.1% between 2008 and 2009.
In 2009 the NCVS measured about 4.3 million nonfatal violent victimizations of persons age 12 or older. Violent crime victimizations were experienced by 17.1 per 1,000 persons age 12 or older.
Simple assault is the most frequently occurring violent crime. In 2009 about 2.9 million simple assault victimizations affected about 11.3 per 1,000 persons age 12 or older.
The rate of violent crime declined between 2008 and 2009.
Nearly half of all nonfatal violent crimes were reported to the police in 2009.
The murder rate has been dropping generally across a lot of developed countries since the 1990's. The US murder rate has dropped from 9.8 per 100,000 people per year in 1991 to 5.0 in 2009. Canada's murder rate was never nearly as high, but it peaked near 3.0 in the late 1980's, and has since declined to 1.8. England and Wales is down to 1.1, Scotland is down to 1.5, Denmark is down to 0.8, and Italy is down to 0.82.
It's an interesting sociological trend across several nations, and - at least when it comes to the overall murder rate - economic troubles haven't yet reversed it.
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