This visualization explores the correlation of elections years with violent crime in the United States from 1960 to 2014. The data comes from The Disaster Center and numbers ahow the crime rate per 100,000 people.
Several different types of violent crime are shown and the visulization calls out especially important events in US history as well as each election to discover if there is, in fact, increased violence associated with elections.
Mouse over circles to reveal information about US history.