New crime statistics released today show the estimated number of murders in the nation was 15,696, or a 10.8 per cent jump from the 2014 estimate.
The FBI says that, overall, violent crime rose by 3.9 per cent in 2015. But it's still down from where it was five and 10 years ago.
Attorney General Loretta Lynch addressed the new statistics in a speech today in Little Rock.
She said that while the numbers show that "we still have so much work to do," 2015 represented the third-lowest year for violent crime in the past two decades. She says crime is stable or down in many communities.
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