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The nation’s rate of violent crime fell last year to its lowest level in three decades, the Justice Department reported this week. The rates of burglary and other property crimes also dropped over two years by as much as 25 percent. Since the government began collecting statistics in 1973, the number of violent and property crimes has fallen from 44 million to 23.6 million. The nation’s jail and prison population, meanwhile, has ballooned to 2 million, a record.
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