According to the latest FBI statistics, homicides in the U.S. are at their lowest rate since the 1960′s. Overall, violent crime is down and property crime is also down. There is a popular conception that crime increases during economic hard times, but the opposite has happened during the current recession.

I’ve reported some the past few months on how violent crime in the U.S. is increasingly concentrated among black males. That’s disturbing, but something right has to be happening for the overall crime rate to keep falling. Credit has to go better policing practices and, I guess, a more law abiding citizenry. Why fewer people resort to crime is an under-studied and somewhat mysterious socioeconomic trend.

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