Nation IN BRIEF : WASHINGTON, D.C. : Murder Capital Tops Justice Spending List
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The District of Columbia spent $859 per person for criminal and civil justice--four times the national average--the year it became the nation’s murder capital, according to a Justice Department report. Washington assumed the unofficial title as the nation’s murder capital in 1988 when it recorded 369 homicides, highest per capita for any major U.S. city.
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