The U.S. crime rate is still dropping, FBI data shows. March 19, 2024, 1:10 PM EDT

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-u-s-crime-rate-is-still-dropping-fbi-data-shows/ar-BB1kaJeP

[quote]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. That’s based on data from around 13,000 law enforcement agencies, policing about 82% of the U.S. population, that provided the FBI with quarterly data through December.[/quote]

[quote]Asher and other experts say the biggest factor behind the drop in crime may simply be the resumption of anti-crime initiatives by local governments and courts that had stopped during the pandemic.

“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.” Asher said, “The tools that we ordinarily have used to interrupt these cycles of violence were gone in 2020 [and] 2021.”[/quote]

So you let a whole bunch of people riot, loot, assault and murder during the Summer of 2020, the crime rate goes up, but you get your guy elected.

Then you lay off and magically the crime rate drops.

Thanks for posting this Vinny.

I've seen a few right-wingers here trying to claim that immigrants are causing a crime wave. The only support for the claim is one very misleading statistic - that some large percentage of federal arrests (35% 50% whatever) are undocumented immigrants.

Here's why it's misleading: the federal government makes very very few arrests! Something like 99% of all arrests are made state & local police. Don't be fooled by a large slice of a tiny pie!!

*poot* 💨