U.S. Murder Rate Up Nearly 11 Percent In 2015

The murder rate in the U.S. rose 10.8 percent last year, according to new data from the FBI. That's the biggest single-year increase in nearly 50 years.

Here & Now's Robin Young talks to Inimai Chettiar of the Brennan Center for Justice about what's behind the jump in the murder rate and where it fits into multi-year crime trends.

Inimai Chettiar, director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. She tweets @inimai.