Violent crime rates have shown a long-term decline over the past 30 years, with small upticks in 2020 and 2021. Murder rates in 2024 are projected to be at or below those during Donald Trump's presidency. Various sources indicate a decrease in crime, but there is skepticism and misinformation regarding the data, with contrasting political narratives about the crime trend.
This is a good point. Biden's been very effective bringing down the Trump crime wave that spun out of control on Trump's watch. Need to talk about it more. https://t.co/RgFV5VfVa6
"Crime is way down — why aren’t Democrats talking about it?" (@TheHillOpinion) https://t.co/BAyGzGxMqK
"The first-quarter US crime statistics released last week by the Federal Bureau of Investigation were a doozy, in a good way. Every single main crime category was down by double-digit percentages from the same period a year earlier." --@FoxJust, @opinion https://t.co/DGzk0loMWL https://t.co/NmXFk5oi8q
1. 3/4 of Americans believe crime is INCREASING when the data shows it is DECREASING rapidly Why? GOP politicians keep claiming crime is increasing Media outlets are unable or unwilling to correct them 🧵
Interesting dissection of a complex topic >> Former President Donald Trump’s claim of a crime wave is obviously wrong, and Biden deserves at least some of the credit for the decline, @foxjust says https://t.co/dfxEEVhh41 via @opinion
Former President Donald Trump’s claim of a crime wave is obviously wrong, and Biden deserves at least some of the credit for the decline, @foxjust says https://t.co/IjZSstGGEk
Crime is way down — why aren’t Democrats talking about it? https://t.co/zL0EEn0VZ5
Former President Donald Trump’s claim of a crime wave is obviously wrong, and Biden deserves at least some of the credit for the decline, @foxjust says https://t.co/0xQFwTNrQZ via @opinion
Trump should lean into this. Really gives lie to the whole "crime is down" claim. https://t.co/EXQVwcfE7S
Republicans continue to campaign on “Biden’s crime crisis” and promise they’ll return America to “a nation’s that safe.” Voters also appear to believe crime is still rising, @crampell writes. "In reality, national crime rates have been falling." https://t.co/prqQi3Qal3
CRIME PROPAGANDA: Every major Democrat-controlled city is reporting they are experiencing a massive reduction in crime and their willing accomplices in the mainstream media are using a combination of local, state, and federal data to support these claims. For example, one such… https://t.co/1GYxNZ1jzL
If present positive trends continue (2024 seems to be shaping up as less murdery than 2023), it seems reasonable to expect that the number of homicides at the end of this year will be less than 15% above the level of 2019. https://t.co/5kW7ZBWXXT
In 2023, homicides were 12% below their peak in 2021. Homicides remained 19% above the pre-BLM baseline in 2019. https://t.co/r7io0tG6w2
This is the smart conservative response: crime is down, and you won't get murdered walking around in a city - but it's down from an artificial peak that woke loons created. https://t.co/WOeWQxcJVf
"Crime is down" "Inflation is at an all time low" "Men aren't really competing in women's sports anyways" https://t.co/VOGQOm2429
If city, state, and federal governments are lying when they say crime rates are way down over the past two years, why did they say crime rates were way up in 2021 and 2022? Why didn't they just lie then, as well? https://t.co/XHYcUMrxG4
Murder rates across 265 cities are down nearly 20% on average, according to respective city police department statistics https://t.co/w6ZqljzosT
Crime is not down. Maybe the amount of crimes counted by the FBI is down but crime is not down. Democrats should stop saying that it is down. Nobody believes them.
oh wonder what y/y or q/q changes in reprting were like and how that affected aggregate crime rates that showed up in Discourse vibe is crime is down from peak but im sort of skeptical of the extent now otoh one can imagine an information cascade here 🤔 https://t.co/LjvQFJT59N
According to @Crimealytics, murders in American cities have been falling since last year. I think this is good news, but many folks remain skeptical. Do you think the data is accurate, and murders have been falling since last year? (Poll in next tweet.) 1/ https://t.co/jtWCTrJAcv
According to the NYPD, these are the homicide numbers since 2019. 2019-319 2020-468 2021-488 2022-438 2023-386 and murders so far (152) are 13.6% lower than they were at this time last year (176). Have murders in NYC been declining for the last 3 years?
Crime discourse today (changes in FBI reporting mechanics are affecting their data releases, but it's easy to confirm with local PD data that murder is down this year and lots of rightist Twitter doesn't believe this) is a great example of where data skepticism turns to ignorance https://t.co/9VjQUotsiq
Crime is dropping. Just like jobs are up. (They aren’t) https://t.co/GHgs8s7I9R
murder rates in 2024 are on track to be at or below what they were *every year* of Donald Trump’s presidency, based on observed declines so far this year https://t.co/Oj2wN18Kua https://t.co/2emJppogcF https://t.co/jvSLCii5sd
And they'll also wonder why people don't believe them that crime is down. https://t.co/M1L1ewEWdc
Violent crime reached a peak in the late-‘80s/early-‘90s, then trended down for the past 30 years. Even small upticks (like 2020 and 2021, then went down) were not only lower than 30 years ago, lower than 20 years ago. “A wave of violent crime that we haven’t seen in 5 decades.” https://t.co/t5MVz4xw8D