The U.S. crime rate is still dropping, FBI data shows.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-c...fbi-rcna144100
New FBI data confirms previous indications that crime in the U.S. declined significantly in 2023, continuing a post-pandemic trend and belying widespread perceptions that crime is rising.
The new fourth-quarter numbers showed a 13% decline in murder in 2023 from 2022, a 6% decline in reported violent crime and a 4% decline in reported property crime. Thats based on data from around 13,000 law enforcement agencies, policing about 82% of the U.S. population, that provided the FBI with data through December.
"It suggests that when we get the final data in October, we will have seen likely the largest one-year decline in murder that has ever been recorded, said Jeff Asher, a former CIA analyst who now studies crime trends.
"After a terrible period of underfunding and understaffing caused by the pandemic, local governments have, by most measures, returned to pre-pandemic levels, wrote John Roman, a criminologist at the University of Chicago. In an interview, Roman said, The courts were closed, a lot of cops got sick, a lot of police agencies told their officers not to interact with the public. Teachers were not in schools, not working with kids."
I wonder if due to a bunch of MAGAts that died during the pandemic. The GOP was killing off their base by being anti-vax. Except for their orange idol...he got the vax, and now takes credit for getting it done.