Over the same period, the nation's murder rate was nearly cut in half.
The 2008 murder rate was 0.69 people per 100,000 head of population.
For the nation as a whole, in the period from 1973 to 1995, the murder rate was 9 per 100,000.
The murder rate was cut nearly in half between 1993 and 1996.
The murder rate here led the nation in 1997 and 1998.
In the most religious states, the murder rate is higher than average.
The murder rate was nearly four times higher than Mexico's.
New York's strategy, he said, had cut the murder rate by almost 35 percent in two years.
The following is a list of murder rates by city, nation, rate.
And then to move to Canada, which has an even lower murder rate?