Editing Richmond, Virginia (section)

===Crime===
Richmond experienced a spike in overall crime, particularly in the [[murder rate]], during the 1980s, 1990s, and the early 2000s, when it was consistently ranked as one of the most dangerous cities in the United States.<ref name="Morgan_Quitno">{{cite web |title=Top and Bottom 25 Cities Overall |url=http://www.statestats.com/cit05pop.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218212520/http://www.statestats.com/cit05pop.htm |archive-date=February 18, 2012 |access-date=July 14, 2012 |publisher=[[Morgan Quitno Press]]}}</ref><ref name="cqpress">{{cite web |title=CQpress.com |url=http://cqpress.com/docs/met05r.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813051847/http://cqpress.com/docs/met05r.pdf |archive-date=August 13, 2012 |access-date=July 14, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Infoplease.com |url=http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0934323.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110227223443/http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0934323.html |archive-date=February 27, 2011 |access-date=November 1, 2011 |publisher=Infoplease.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Statestats.com |url=http://www.statestats.com/cit06pop.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111005173024/http://www.statestats.com/cit06pop.htm |archive-date=October 5, 2011 |access-date=November 1, 2011 |publisher=Statestats.com}}</ref>

Since the late 2000s, various forms of crime have significantly decreased in the city.<ref name="CLR">{{cite web |title=2010 Crime Rate Indexes for Richmond, Virginia. |url=http://www.clrsearch.com/Richmond_Demographics/VA/Crime-Rate |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120723095903/http://www.clrsearch.com/Richmond_Demographics/VA/Crime-Rate |archive-date=July 23, 2012 |access-date=July 14, 2012 |publisher=CLR Search.}}</ref> Its major crime rate, including violent and property crimes, decreased 47 percent between 2004 and 2009 to its lowest level in more than a quarter of a century.<ref name="Williams_Bowes">{{cite news |author1=Williams, Reed |author2=Bowes, Mark |date=January 10, 2010 |title=Central Va. had 4 fewer homicides last year than in 2008. |newspaper=[[Richmond Times Dispatch]] |url=http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/jan/10/homi10_20100109-221204-ar-20533/ |url-status=dead |access-date=July 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204183204/http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2010/jan/10/homi10_20100109-221204-ar-20533/ |archive-date=February 4, 2013 }}</ref> In 2008, Richmond had fallen to 49th on a [[Morgan Quitno Press]] ranking of the most dangerous cities in the United States, and the city recorded its lowest homicide rate since 1971.<ref name="Williams_Reed">{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Reed |date=December 7, 2008 |title=Richmond's homicide rate on pace to reach 37-year low. |newspaper=[[Richmond Times Dispatch]] |url=http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2008/dec/07/rhom07_20081206-211651-ar-102109/ |url-status=dead |access-date=July 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130204132209/http://www2.timesdispatch.com/news/2008/dec/07/rhom07_20081206-211651-ar-102109/ |archive-date=February 4, 2013 }}</ref><ref name="2008_rankings">{{cite web |title=2008 City Crime Rankings. |url=http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/CityCrime2008_Rank_Rev.pdf |publisher=CQ Press |access-date=July 14, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904020922/http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/CityCrime2008_Rank_Rev.pdf |archive-date=September 4, 2012 |url-status=dead}}</ref> By 2012, Richmond was no longer in the top 200.<ref name="2012_rankings">{{cite web |title=2012 City Crime Rankings. |url=http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2012/CityCrime2013_CityCrimeRateRankings.pdf |publisher=CQ Press |access-date=August 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130228004156/http://os.cqpress.com/citycrime/2012/CityCrime2013_CityCrimeRateRankings.pdf |archive-date=February 28, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

In recent years{{when?|date=April 2025}}, Richmond, like other cities, has had a slight increase in homicides, although violent and other forms of crime remain below the national average.<ref>Rockett, Ali (January 14, 2017). [http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/article_4742e8b1-e2de-5c72-9b47-a373924014d2.html "61 people were slain in Richmond in 2016. Here are their stories."] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923170040/http://www.richmond.com/news/local/city-of-richmond/article_4742e8b1-e2de-5c72-9b47-a373924014d2.html |date=September 23, 2017 }}  ''Richmond Times-Dispatch.'' Retrieved January 15, 2017.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 20, 2021 |title=Virginia ranks among states with lowest crime rates |url=https://apnews.com/article/new-hampshire-richmond-crime-virginia-united-states-4b62ec4728454e0186dc5139937f5dd9 |access-date=May 9, 2022 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref>