FWIW. Let’s talk numbers instead of perceptions.
The murder rate in the USA hit its lowest point ever in 1963, at 4.6 per 100k. It climbed through the 80s and peaked around 11 in 1987.
It’s has trended down since and we’re very nearly back where we were in 1963.
Late 19th century we were about where we were in the 1980s, and prior to that murder rates had been MUCH higher.
The overall stats may have improved but no one can say that THIS guy every should have been released from prison early!!
He was serving time for previous carjackings and for assaulting prison guards while allowed on “furlough” to attend his grandmother’s funeral in 2009.
He should have been required to serve the maximum possible time given the info in the articles linked above.
The people slaughtered by this monster do not get any consolation from national crime statistics, nor do their families get their loved ones back.
I would like to see the source of those numbers for pre-1950 homicides.
I have seen numbers much lower than that for the United States, and it seems suspicious that the numbers go way up during periods of war, such as the Revolutionary war and the Civil War.
I suspect the author is counting all war deaths as “homicides” but I cannot prove it.