homicide

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Extreme ideas are shaping a campaign which features a record 35 candidates, as Peru confronts soaring extortion and a homicide rate that has more than doubled since 2018.

From Barron's • Mar. 26, 2026

In the last year and a half, she has reported significant progress curtailing the violence in Mexico, reporting a decrease in homicide rates by 42% from September 2024 to January 2026.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 26, 2026

The decline in Venezuela’s homicide rate from 2016 to 2023, the last year for which data is available, according to the Caracas policy group Venezuelan Observatory on Violence.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026

During the current administration, the homicide rate reached a peak of 17.2 per 100,000 inhabitants.

From Barron's • Mar. 20, 2026

In the federal system, for example, homicide convictions account for 0.4 percent of the past decade’s growth in the federal prison population, while drug convictions account for nearly 61 percent of that expansion.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander