[Zhang Fei]

There’s less violent crime than any time in the nation’s history.

Not just incorrect, but off by 50%. We're a long way from Mayberry. Even in 1960, crime was starting to skyrocket. Since then, the numbers have gotten steadily worse, as the following per capita crime rates show:

Year	Population	Total	Violent	Property	Murder	Rape	Robbery	assault	Burglary	Theft	Theft
1960	179,323,175	1,887.2	160.9	1,726.3	5.1	9.6	60.1	86.1	508.6	1,034.7	183.0
1961	182,992,000	1,906.1	158.1	1,747.9	4.8	9.4	58.3	85.7	518.9	1,045.4	183.6
2011	311,587,816	3,292.5	387.1	2,905.4	4.7	27.0	113.9	241.5	701.3	1,974.1	230.0
2012	313,914,040	3,246.1	386.9	2,859.2	4.7	26.9	112.9	242.3	670.2	1,959.3	229.7

If you think crime is out of control, you're right. It's just less out of control than in the 80's and 90's, such that it is over double the rate of the early 60's, which was itself much higher than the norm in the 50's.

[balch3]

I notice you made a big jump from 1961 to 2011.

[Rodamala]

The takeaway I get from that data is how the population nearly doubled in that timespan. Most of those people are not homesteaders settling the plains of Nebraska... they are mostly in the urban sprawl of leftist America.