An Acceptable Level of Violence

FBI stats tout a 6.1% decrease in murders, but we are still up 35% from nine years ago. Describing crime levels as pre-pandemic is disingenuous.

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In 1971, UK Home Secretary Reginald Maudling’s gaffe describing the current state of The Troubles in Northern Ireland, as ‘an acceptable level of violence’ has received five decades of well-deserved ridicule. National crime is not subject to the same periodic market fluctuations that create the ebb and flow in the stock…