The rise in murders in the U.S. slowed in 2021, increasing 4 percent last year after surging nearly 30 percent in 2020. But California, Florida and New York didn’t report figures because of problems adjusting to a new reporting system.
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Critics contend that publicity around the numbers is due to the election season as public safety is politicized in order to increase budgets for mass incarceration.
Although carjackings continue to be a terrifying staple of local news reports, the “rate of nonfatal victimization” has declined dramatically between 1995 and 2021—and victims are more likely not to be affluent, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Measuring the success or failure of justice reforms by statistics like the number of deaths is an example of the “myopic focus on data” that ignores the wider narrative about the drivers of crime in America, writes TCR commentator James Doyle.
In the first six months of NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ tenure, the city saw a 25 percent increase in arrests for low-level offenses, often called “quality of life” crimes, the first increase in a decade.
A new analysis shows that high-profile U.S. public shootings are only part of the larger problem of mass killings resulting from deaths by guns, knives, fires, vehicles and other weapons in public and in private.
A 24-year-long study found that once young people fall into persistent offending patterns, punishments devised to curb their conduct are largely ineffective.
Alexis Piquero, a contributor to The Crime Report who has published widely on areas ranging from crime prevention to the intersection of sports and crime, will head the Bureau of Justice Statistics at a time when dependable data has never been more critical to the debate over justice reform.
Nationwide, shootings are down four percent this year compared to the same time last year, with murders in big cities down three percent, potentially making this the first year since 2018 in which the numbers fell in the U.S.
Crime in the nation’s largest transit system remains at the same level as 2019. However, a flurry of high-profile crimes has kept ridership low.