If Jeff Asher's Real-Time Crime Index is to be believed—and it probably is—our 2020 surge in homicides is now all but over:
On an international basis, our murder rate is very high—thanks mostly to the wide availability of guns—but it's now barely higher than it was before the pandemic. Overall violent crime and overall property crime never surged in the first place and are also at their old levels.
Another 10% decline and the pandemic murder surge will be completely over. At the current rate that will happen by this time next year.
One more thing for Trump to take credit for!
The initial spike took place in 2020, so he certainly can take credit for that.
GENEVA, Ill. — A man has been charged with murder after a 13-year-old boy and his mother were found stabbed to death inside a Geneva home Thursday night.
CHICAGO — A 25-year-old man was killed and two other men were injured when an argument outside a bar escalated into gunfire overnight in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood.
Because this is normal for the USA. The rest of the world thinks we’re crazy. But hey… people in Trinidad and Tobago are doing their best to kill each other.
This is why you libs lose elections. I just KNOW that crime is up, way up, and gets higher every year. And has forever.
If you don't confirm my personal biases, I'll never vote for you.
When they write the epitat of the Biden Administration, it will be everything good that happened became apparent the year after he left office.
More likely, 40 years after, like with Jimmy Carter.
But it *was* apparent. It took deliberate obfuscation, just as on the economy, with docile responses from an anxious, prejudiced = set of voters and from the MSM. It's just a matter of how long before the accepted picture changes.
The time from end of term to death for Carter suggests one possibility. Still, his reputation is still controversial. Still, no question there are parallels in the media such as the coinage of the term "malaise" he never used, the elevation and distortion of the rabbit incident, and the credit for resolving the hostage crisis going instead to the candidate who worked behind the scenes to slow the hostage release. And that's before the Fox / NY Post machine.
“I feel like police should do more and have detectives figure out where these kids are getting these guns,” Bobina said. “I feel like they started to give up on Oakland because the same stuff keeps happening.”
Hey kids! You are the problem and the solution.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/30/gun-violence-oakland-youth-deaths
But for democrats, it’s ok to have this happen to dumbass teenagers. It’s their culture of hatred and violence. They alone can change it.
This would be more interesting to see at the State level, on a per capita basis.
Red States would feature prominently.