The chart illustrates there’s always at least two ways to view data: on the one hand, homicides are way down from the mayhem of 1991 (a year, by the way, in which East Palo Alto was the murder capital of the United States!!!), while on the other hand, they are WAY up from the bottom in 2014.
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