> The idea that the US is improving and other nations have 'stopped' When mentioning improvement, I was referring to homicide and violent crime, not incarcera

> The idea that the US is improving and other nations have 'stopped' When mentioning improvement, I was referring to homicide and violent crime, not incarceration. In crime statistics, the U.S. improvement is clearly visible. U.S. was for a long time oscillating somewhere around 10 homicides per 100 000 pop per year, the peak was in 1991, and after that it started to do gown and is now around 4. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-13799616 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-13799616 Incarceration rate in the U.S. is somewhat following this. It increased from 1970 until about 2007, and has since then turned slightly downwards (see figure 5) https://www.brookings.edu/research/ten-economic-facts-about-crime-and-incarceration-in-the-united-states/ https://www.brookings.edu/research/ten-economic-facts-about-... [edit:language]