CRIME STATISTICS –
An estimated 23,200 people were murdered in the United States last year (1990), a new record. – During the gulf air war, 24 Americans were killed in action; in the same period, there were 52 homicides in Dallas. – In Los Angeles, there is one police officer for every 417 citizens; in Washington, D.C., the ratio of police officers to citizens is 1 to 126. – With 426 prisoners per 100,000 citizens, the U. S. has the world’s highest incarceration rate. – Roughly 29 percent of Americans were crime victims in 1988 compared with 9 percent of Japan’s residents. From Newsweek, March 25, 1991
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