The Oregonian Portland’s 16 homicides in 2013 are fewest in more than 40 years Jack Levin, co-director of the Brudnick Center on Violence at Northeastern University, said so many variables are at play when examining homicides that it’s “almost impossible to give a definitive explanation for the dramatic decline.” But he said the aging population definitely makes a difference. “There’s a larger number of older people, the baby boomers […]