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Originally Posted by blueash
Oh stop. The federal government has absolutely nothing to do with local crime. Just an easy political target for you. The crime rate, and you can look up FBI crime data if you care to, is well within its recent range. And it is much lower than a few decades ago. But the media tells you about every single crime. And some media loves to show you video which never existed before. Perception is not reality.
Most people think the U.S. crime rate is rising. They'''re wrong.
https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/weba...rime/quarterly
Look at the real data, not the nightly news or the everybody needs 10 guns network. Look at the charts for violent and property crime since 1985 to 2022
And not shown in those charts is the 2023 data which through the 3rd quarter show an additional drop of 8% in violent crime over 2022 and 6.3% in property crime.
What is up however is hate crime. I wonder what that is about or how that has been stirred up. |
It seems the crime rate was down across the US except in some major cities where it was up by quite a bit.
One of the major stations did a report on crime stats for the year 2023. I do think San Francisco was one where it was way up.
The data is rather incomplete though.
The FBI released its annual national crime stats. The data is horribly incomplete | US news | The Guardian