The U.S. crime rate is still dropping, FBI data shows

NBC News ^ | 03 19 2024 | Ken Dilanian

[yesthatjallen]

New FBI data confirms previous indications that crime in the U.S. declined significantly in 2023, continuing a post-pandemic trend and belying widespread perceptions that crime is rising.

The new fourth-quarter numbers showed a 13% decline in murder in 2023 from 2022, a 6% decline in reported violent crime and a 4% decline in reported property crime. That’s based on data from around 13,000 law enforcement agencies, policing about 82% of the U.S. population, that provided the FBI with quarterly data through December.

“It suggests that when we get the final data in October, we will have seen likely the largest one-year decline in murder that has ever been recorded,” said Jeff Asher, a former CIA analyst who now studies crime trends.

In October, the FBI will release its final and most comprehensive look at crime in 2023.

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[MortMan]

Micturaining.

[Rdct29]

I guess we are suppose to believe these numbers because the feds have been so open and honest with the American people. They expect us to buy their lies when they go in front of Congress and refuse to answer even the most basic questions. I don't believe a word of what any government agency says anymore. No American with a working brain should believe their bullshit. Just watch one hearing of Wray or Mayrokis in front of Congress and you will see what liars and con men we have running these agencies. It all comes from the top. A corrupt usurper in the white house needs corrupt agents to protect him from the crimes he committed. The whole system is a disgrace.

[ExTxMarine]

This is like Democrat-led school districts having record graduation rates, yet less than 30% of their graduating seniors can read on a 8th grade level!!

If you just ignore the truth, everything looks rosy here in Biden’s La-La Land!!

[Thistledew]

Based on their track record for veracity, any organ of the Biden Administration deserves absolutely no credibility, without independent confirmation. And so far, that is sorely lacking. And I doubt if that will change.