This is quite likely the lowest murder rate in American history, ever.
U.S. murder rate approaches a record lowA few years ago, experts worried about a "new normal" of elevated violent crime in the U.S. Now the country is flirting with breaking its all-time low murder ratewww.npr.orgJeff AsherFirst look at murder through July (still waiting on the Texas cities) shows murder is still falling at unprecedented levels in the United States with no signs of levelling.