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Response: High Murder Rates Murder rates have increased in and are at an all-time high in 4 major east coast cites. In the article In High Murder Rates, 4 Cities Stand Out, Chicago, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Memphis crime rates have increased to record levels like in the 1990s. Although, there’s no one area that is causing the violence officials believe some of the contributing factors are, poverty, current tensions with public, drugs and gun laws. For me, two issues stand out the most and more than likely are the top contributing factors, drugs, and poverty and police shootings. In the 1990s two of the main contributors were drugs and poverty. Today, the trend is similar. However, today’s crime rate also correlate with the well-televised police

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