WHICH RURAL U.S. STATES AND WHICH DENSELY POPULATED U.S. STATES, RESPECTIVELY, EACH HAVE THE LOWEST ATTEMPTED-HOMICIDE RATES?

This public-policy-minded question should be asked, and needs to be asked, in order to help reduce the attempted homicide and homicide rates throughout our entire nation.

It seems to me that the U.S. states by population category that have the lowest ATTEMPTED-homicide rates are the states that have succeeded the most at discouraging or preventing ATTEMPTS at homicidal violence by residents of that state or visitors to that state.

This invites further research to identify the special services and programs and laws in each of those admirable states that have helped to prevent attempted homicide in their respective states.

I am also hopeful that my currently-one-member (myself, only) and non-Christian "Progressive Prohibitionist Religion" can confer an annual award on the U.S. states, by population category, in which the incidence of reported attempted homicide in the most recent 12-month period or two-year period was, in fact, the lowest in the entire nation for that population category.

The award could be entitled, "Best Homicide-Prevention States", with the single and very tangible criterion for that award being the lowest per-capita incidence of reported ATTEMPTED homicide in each of those states.