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3 days ago · Using the BJS statistics, the declines in the violent and property crime rates are even steeper than those captured in the FBI data. Per BJS, the U.S. violent and property crime rates each fell 71% between 1993 and 2022. While crime rates have fallen sharply over the long term, the decline hasn’t always been steady.
Jan 3, 2023 · Examining What Is: Covid-19, Guns, and the Rise in Hate. Prior to the Covid-19 pandemic, crime rates were relatively low. As the graph in Figure 1 demonstrates, the rate of violent crime offenses declined from a peak in 1991 of 758.2 per year to 398.5 per year in 2020. 19 The rate of homicide over the same period also dropped significantly, from its highest level in 1991 compared with 2020. 20 ...
- José Luis Morín
- New Labor Forum. 2023 Jan; 32(1): 60-68.
- 10.1177/10957960221143526
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- Crime in 2021: Dealing with Uncertainty in National Data
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- Placing Current Trends Into Historical Context
Crime rates changed dramatically across the United States in 2020. Most significantly, the murder rate — that is, the number of murders per 100,000 people — rose sharply, by nearly 30 percent. Assaults increased as well, with the rate of offenses rising by more than 10 percent. Both increases are connected to a broader surge in gun violence. More t...
In early October 2022, the FBI released its long-awaited compilation of 2021 crime data. But this data differed sharply in content and quality from previous years due to a transitionin the way the government collects crime data. Specifically, 2021 was the first year to rely exclusively on a recently updated system for tracking crime data, the Natio...
FBI data covering all of 2022 is not yet available, so it is too soon to speak with confidence about national crime trends for that year. But research by Jeff Asher, an analyst who studies crime trends, and another report by the Council on Criminal Justice, point to two positive developments: murders and gun violenceappear to have dropped in many c...
These increases in crime rates are serious on their own terms and should not be trivialized. Nationally, however, they do not return us to the high crime rates of the early 1990s. From 1991 to 2014, the national murder rate plummeted by more than 50 percent, from 9.8 to 4.4 killings per 100,000 people. By comparison, the murder rate for 2020 stood ...
Jun 19, 2012 · All told, the estimated savings for municipal budgets from a 25 percent reduction in violent crime range from $6 million per year in Seattle to $12 million per year in Boston and Milwaukee, to $42 ...
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SciTechDailyThe Election of Progressive Prosecutors in the U.S. Led to Higher Rates of Overall Crime
A research study explored the impact of progressive prosecutors on crime rates in the largest U.S. counties from 2000 to 2020, revealing that such prosecutors are associated with higher rates ...
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Lawmakers are overreacting to crime
It might seem like those two things go hand-in-hand; after all, if lawmakers successfully reduce crime rates, then people have less to worry about. According to a Gallup poll, for example, the ...
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Jul 22, 2023 · Ali Rogin has the latest on what new research says about the state of crime in America and the best practices for curving it. A new report from the Council on Criminal Justice provides new insight ...
There are any number of laws and regulations that could be tweaked to meaningfully reduce crime and victimization. For example, higher taxes that specifically target the overuse of criminogenic products like guns and alcohol have been shown to reduce excess demand. 20. Stop the Proliferation of Firearms.
But assuming that substance abuse treatment was the main driver of effects on crime in this setting, the authors estimate that a ten percent increase in such treatment (at an annual cost of $1.6 ...
