DC on pace for fewer than 100 homicides in 2012
The crack epidemic that began in the 1980s ushered in a wave of bloodletting in the nation’s capital and a death toll that ticked upward daily. Dead bodies, sometimes several a night, had homicide detectives hustling between crime scenes and earned Washington unwelcome monikers such as the nation’s "murder capital. " At the time, some feared the murder rate might ascend to more frightening heights.
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