11-27-2012, 01:15 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Bottom lands of the Missoula floods
Posts: 6,402
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From Wikipedia
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<snip>Despite being the headquarters of multiple federal law enforcement agencies
such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA),
the nationwide crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s greatly affected the city
and led to massive increases in crime.[1]
The number of homicides in Washington peaked in 1991 at 479,[2]
and the city eventually became known as the "murder capital" of the United States.[3]
The crime rate started to fall in the mid 1990s as the crack epidemic gave way
to economic revitalization projects. Gentrification efforts have also started to transform
the demographics of distressed neighborhoods, recently leading to the first rise
in the District's population in 60 years.[4]<snip>
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