Murder Rates Declines in the United States

Hi to Everyone, I was reading an article in the newspaper and came across somthing that caught my attention. I found out that Louisiana was ranked number one for the most murders out of the United States. Over the past nine years the United State's murder rates has declined drastically from 8.2% to 5.7% (Murder Rates per 1000 people). I was very frightened knowing that I live in this state, however over the past nine years Louisiana's Murder rate declined 17.0 % to 13.0 %. http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=12&did=169

This could be a frightening scene for kids. In Boston, the daylight shooting of a basketball coach in front of his team of 11- to 15-year-olds, and the wounding of an 11-year-old during a tryout for a Pop Warner football team a week later, have been particularly unnerving for city residents this summer.Many experts believes they are not surprised by surges in gang activity across the country.

James Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston who provided data for the recent "Stop Crime: Invest in Kids" report, says the confluence of many factors are at play. Meanwhile, the country is closing city parks down at 11 p.m., is working with community leaders to expand youth programs across the city, and is planning on using camera surveillance to monitor activity in the city's "hot spots".