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English: Homicides per 100,000 population in the US, Canada, UK, Finland and Austria 1925 to present (2016-CAN, 2018-GBR, 2019-AUT, 2020-FIN & USA) per Fink-Jensen 1925-2010^[1] and UN Office on Drugs and Crime more recently.^[2] (Both series are plotted for 1990, showing the relatively small differences between them.) Pinker (2011) mentioned homicide rates in the US, Canada and Europe. The UK was selected as perhaps most like the US and Canada, and Austria and Finland were selected as having the lowest and highest homicide rates, respectively, in 2010 among countries in the Fink-Jensen data with more than 100 observations. Pinker noted they all show similar patterns of systemic changes though at different levels.^[3] The year 1975 is marked, because that's about the time when the mainstream commercial broadcasters in the US began firing nearly all their investigative journalists, according to Constructing Crime: Perspectives on Making News and Social Problems (in en), Waveland Press, (Please provide a date or year), ISBN 0-88133-984-9, Wikidata Q96343487, “Media Constructions of Crime”, in Constructing Crime: Perspectives on Making News and Social Problems (in en), (Please provide a date or year), Wikidata Q106878177, When Crime Waves (in en), , (Please provide a date or year), Wikidata Q96344789, and The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the 21st Century (in en), Monthly Review Press, (Please provide a date or year), ISBN 1-58367-105-6, Wikidata Q7758439.