The falling crime rate in California is not isolated to any one county or region. It is occurring statewide with more than three quarters of all the counties experiencing a drop in the crime rate between 1994 and 1996. Twenty-two counties experienced a 20% or greater drop in their overall crime rate in the first three years of the "Three Strikes" era.¹⁰

¹⁰The crime rates by county are not available for 1997. The statistics were provided by the California Department of Justice, Division of Criminal Justice Information Services, February 23, 1998.

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