US murders concentrated in 5 percent of counties

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US murders concentrated in 5 percent of counties

By Perry Chiaramonte

Published April 26, 2017
Fox News

The majority of murders in the U.S. occur in only a small percentage of counties across the country.

The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) said in a new report that there is a “geographical concentration” of murders, with 68 percent of killings occurring in just 5 percent of the nation’s counties. The homicides also tend to be concentrated to relatively small pockets of those counties, the report said.
 
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/04/26/us-murders-concentrated-in-5-percent-counties.html

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from the article:

“While many factors explain these concentrated murders, it is also striking that the counties with zero murders are the counties with by far the highest gun ownership rates”