New data released from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) reveals a significant drop in violent crime rates in the U.S. which are now reaching historic lows, according to an MSNBC.com report. The organization’s findings, released in the FBI’s Preliminary Annual Uniform Crime Report, represent a small decline in crime overall; criminologists, however, state that these drops are not a blip and are representative of a larger downward trend and the result of a “series of changes that have contributed to a more peaceful society.”
