Homicides went up in 2020 and 2021 and are now rapidly coming back down. Violent crime nationwide hasn’t increased. But the perception of a crime wave still colors U.S. politics.

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    9 months ago

    This is so sad to see and I hope the United States gets its mojo back as a murder capital of the universe.

    This is probably the liberals fault. Everyone should be murdering everyone else, that’s the American way.

  • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world
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    9 months ago

    Has crime actually gone down, or have homicide rates gone down? Malcolm Gladwell did a great series on his podcast recently that points out that when trauma centers save more lives of GSW victims, the homicide rates go down simply because not as many people die -even though there are just as many bullets hitting humans.