• ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works
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    10 months ago

    "The homicide rate in the United States is expected to plummet nearly 13% compared to 2022, meaning more than 2,000 fewer people were the victims of homicide this year, Jeff Asher, a national crime analyst, told ABC News.

    The FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Reporting Program, which analyzed data from 15,897 law enforcement agencies, the largest single-year jump in murders in more than a century occurred between 2019 and 2020 as murders and nonnegligent manslaughter offenses nationwide rose nearly 30%.

    Homicides across the country continued to increase in 2021 by 4.3% before falling by 6% in 2022, according to the FBI report.“The homicide rate in the United States is expected to plummet nearly 13% compared to 2022, meaning more than 2,000 fewer people were the victims of homicide this year, Jeff Asher, a national crime analyst, told ABC News.”

    So the murder rate is still above 2019 levels. All of those people who are worried about crime must be morons who have fallen for misinformation, clearly.

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        10 months ago

        I wonder if the spike in murder rate is connected with domestic abuse. During the pandemic, there was no escape for people who were in danger.

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          Yeah, that’s pretty much what I was aiming for. Include financial desperation and mass death due to COVID and you have a powder keg.

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        10 months ago

        Well in that case I guess it’s OK that 4 years later the murder rate remains elevated. I keep forgetting that Because The Pandemic is a valid excuse for literally everything.

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          10 months ago

          Nope, it’s a possible explanation for why there was a spike and why that spike is receding.

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      10 months ago

      So the murder rate is still above 2019 levels. All of those people who are worried about crime must be morons who have fallen for misinformation, clearly.

      But still under pre-'93 levels. Crime has fallen steadily in the US since '93, and although we have had a pop since iirc 2016, we never reached pre '93 levels during it, and now that pop seems to be slowing down.

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        10 months ago

        Which is largely irrelevant to most people today.

        Anyone that’s younger than around 40 were kids in 1993 and not really paying attention to national crime statistics. If they were born yet at all.

        I was born in 91, and I’m now in my 30s with kids of my own in school. I don’t give a shit what the crime rate was when I was two, I care about what it is now. I keep up with things and know that the increase from 2019-2021 was largely Covid related and it’s decreasing again, but the vast majority of people don’t pay that much attention, and to them crime is absolutely up since a few years ago.