No. of Recommendations: 8
hclasvegas:
common, if your trusted impartial sources Joy Reid or Joy Behar cover this story let us know. Until then, I know you trust this,Umm, I can read data.
Like this:
VIOLENT CRIME MURDER MURDER RATE
NON-NEGLIGENT
HOMICIDE
2022 1,256,671 21,781 6.5
2023 1,218,467 19,252 5.7
That is down, isn't it? And 2023 is the most recent year data are available, right?
Homicides clearly declined from 2022 to 2023.
And the HUGE spikes in violent crime occurred in the Trump years between 2019 and 2020, from 1,195,986 to 1,272,812, significantly above the increase from 2021 to 2022. Those same years, Trump years 2019 to 2020, murders went from 16,964 to 22,510. The Biden years 2021 and 2023 had the lowest violent crime rates going back decades.
