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Houston 568 261 54
Philadelphia 503 431 14 (Smith, 1997, 2 June, p. 67)
*The first time New York had less than 1,000 murders since 1968.
These trends are far from uniform. Twelve of the 20 states with homicide rates higher than the national norm in 1996 of 7.4 per 100,000 were in the South (South's, 1997, August, p. 40). In 1995, homicides increased 55 percent in Minneapolis (Zoglin, 1991, 15 January, p. 50). The Economist said in 1996 that "the crime rate in many smaller cities . . . is still rising" (Will, 1996, 6 January, p. 19). Perhaps as many as 35 percent of all crimes go unreported, especially violent crimes such as rape (Cochran et al, 1996, p. 148).
In January, Time (Hey, 1999, 11 January) said that "experts can't agree why" crime rates have been falling in the United States. Politicians, especially district attorneys, police commissioners, heads of correction departments and even the president of the United States have bee
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