Lines of Public Violence

A clean four-panel data visualization charts long-term trends in overall violent crime, homicide, aggravated assault, and robbery from 1979 through 2024. Thin burgundy lines move across an off-white field with restrained gray gridlines and large, clearly labeled axes, revealing pronounced peaks in the late 1980s and early 1990s followed by broad declines and modest recent fluctuations. The cropped lower panels add documentary emphasis to the statistical narrative.