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Here’s a sampling of violent crime rates in the United States:

 Homicide: According to Uniform Crime Report statistics from the FBI, the homicide rate in the United States rose steadily from 1965 to 1980, when it peaked at more than 10 homicides per 100,000 persons. The rate remained relatively high until it began to decline in 1993. The rate was roughly cut in half by 1999, where it has since stabilized. In 2019, the rate was 5.0 homicides for every 100,000 persons. (Preliminary statistics for 2020 show a significant increase in homicides and will bear watching.)

 Assault and battery: According to the National Crime Victimization Study (NCVS), the number of assaults and batteries in the United States peaked at about 16 aggravated assaults and 50 simple assaults for every 1,000 persons around 1993 and dropped until 2015, when there were 3 aggravated assaults per 1,000 persons. Since then, assaults have risen. In 2019, there were 3.7 aggravated assaults and 13.7 simple assaults per 1,000.

 Rape and other sexual assault: According to the 2019 NCVS, there were over 459,000 rapes and sexual assaults that year — roughly 1.7 incidents per 1,000 persons. The level has slowly risen since 2011, when it reached a low of .9 incidents per 1,000.

 Robbery: The number of robberies has been declining in the United States since 1993, according to the NCVS, when there were more than 1.7 million. In 2019, there were 534,421.