Crime Rates Are Plummeting -- And No One Knows Why

By Anneli Rufus, AlterNet
Posted on March 20, 2011, Printed on March 22, 2011
http://www.alternet.org/story/150307/

Los Angeles' violent-crime rates are four times lower now than they were 1992. The interesting thing is, nobody can really explain why.

As of December 25, last year, only 293 homicides were reported in LA, along with 781 rapes, 10,734 robberies, and 9,129 aggravated assaults. In 1992, that blood-soaked year of the Rodney King Riots, Los Angeles saw 1,092 murders, 1,861 rapes, 39,222 robberies, and 47,736 aggravated assaults.