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The 10 cities with the highest murder rates in the US
Despite a 20-year downward trend for violent crime in the U.S., murder rates have gone up in the past two years.
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Crime rates in America have dropped steadily in the last 20 years. According to the Pew Research Center, violent crime rates fell over 50 percent from 1993 to 2015. Despite this overall trend, murder rates in the U.S. have gone up in the past two years. In some cities, murder rates increased at alarming speeds. For example, there were 496 murders in Chicago in 2015, compared with 762 in 2016.
