So violent crimes more then halfed in the last 25 years, if it was reported in a roughly similar way.
If one does mention reported it is amazing to compared it with graphs like that...
I generally prefer very long timeframes as it gives you a far broader vision, however in some case one wants to detect trends. I just can repeat that sadly there is no proper FBI database so we are stuck with this baseline:
The increase in population and officers obviously softens that increase in the last ten years* but it is still surprising to see the in international comparision very high levels of police killings trending upwards during the last decade in the context of decreasing violent crimes and overall killings and specifically a lower number of killed police officers.
Keep in mind the words comparision and context as the police kills fewer per officer and overall capita then in the 'good old days' around 1980, if the reported stats are consistent. Still we are nowhere near the reduction in violent crime or police officers killed. While providing some answers such threads produces usually even more questions...
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*What about police tazers and cars?
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