Trump repeats inaccurate campaign rhetoric in his inauguration speech.
Updated by German Lopez@germanrlopezgerman.lopez@vox.com Jan 20, 2017, 12:53pm EST
In Donald Trump’s inauguration speech on Friday, the new president referred to the country as being under siege of gangs and crime, robbing the nation “of so much unrealized potential.” “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now,” Trump declared.
It echoes remarks Trump made on the campaign trail and afterward, including several rallies where he claimed that “the murder rate in the United States is the highest it’s been in 45 years.”
That would be very worrying if it were true. Thankfully, it’s not. At all.
According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, the murder rate was 4.9 per 100,000 people in 2015, the latest year of data available. That is an 11 percent increase from 2014. But it is lower than it was in 1970, 45 years before, when the murder rate was 7.9. It was also lower than it was at any point from 1965 to 2009 — making the 2015 rate, at worst, a six-year high. And it’s half the rate of what it was 25 years ago, in 1991, and less than half of what it was at several periods in the 1970s and 1980s.
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http://www.vox.com/2016/10/12/13255466/trump-murder-rate
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