According to new statistics,
violent crime is down in major urban centers around the country with New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles on pace to see the number of homicides hit the lowest of any year in the past four decades. There's a good chance, in other word, that fewer Americans will be killed this year than were killed in 1969, despite a major economic downturn and enormous population growth.
But in Denver, violent crime is up.