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According to this article of the New York Times, murders have decreased in the United States from 24,000 in 1991, to 15,000 this past year.  But then again we would have not known that because of so many crime shows that we watch on an everyday routine.  The article talks about how crime shows are very popular now a days.  It has its own channel, Investigation Discovery (i love this channel by the way) where they show, shows such as 48 hours and dateline.  These shows are actually based on real life murders, or murders that happen in other shows or books, and they just add their little twist to them.  These type of shows have become very popular within the last few years, maybe because it gives you that suspense, as to who was it really that committed the murder and why.

I now think if these type of shows is the reason why murders have gone down.  If you really think about it, these shows for the most part, at the end of the day the culprit is found at the end, and technically in the perfect murder they are not.  Maybe after watching these shows people are starting to think that there is no such thing as a perfect murder.

-Armenis P.