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Monday, March 11th, 2024

Actually, Crime is Way Down–2023 Recorded Likely the Largest Single-Year Drop in Homicides Across US

Author:     Andy Corbley
Source:     Good News Network
Publication Date:     Mar 7, 2024
 Link: Actually, Crime is Way Down–2023 Recorded Likely the Largest Single-Year Drop in Homicides Across US
Stephan:  

Like you, I hear the TCPs saying over and over again about how crime is so bad and on the rise in the United States. It’s a lie, like almost everything else the TCPs say. Here are some facts. They all mimic criminal Trump their leader who seems incapable of telling the truth about anything.

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The FBI’s most recent Quarterly Uniform Crime Report data for Q3 2023 shows that nearly all crime in the US is going down; some to pre-pandemic levels, some to multi-decade lows.

This includes a violent crime average, as well as murder, rape, aggravated assault, robbery property crime, burglary, and larceny, with quarterly data showing the largest percentage declines ever recorded for the violent crimes.

It rubs against the public perception of rising crime in America driven, some suspect, by more widely distributed media content than ever before. This is particularly true for larceny, or petty theft and shoplifting, which got out of hand in San Francisco after a 2020 law removed it as a misdemeanor crime.

Videos of shoplifters brazenly robbing places like Rite Aid and Niemen Marcus were fodder for social media virality, and paired with riots across the US in the summer of 2020, it gave the impression that American cities were taking on the character of Kurt Russell’s Escape from New York.

Freelance crime analyst Jeff Asher believes […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Monday, March 11, 2024 at 7:53 am

    Most criminals now days use the Internet to trick people out of their money and into bad situations, and they are hard to stop. It has happened to me.