Mises Wire
Author:
Ryan McMaken
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The US homicide rate in 2014, the most recent year available , was 4.5 per 100,000. The 2014 total follows a long downward trend and is the lowest homicide rate recorded since 1963 when the rate was 4.6 per 100,000 . To find a lower homicide rate, we must travel back to 1957 when the total homicide rate hit 4.0 per 100,000. Homicide rates were