Thank you President Biden: a drop in the high murder rates from the Trump years (NYTimes)

[Bucky]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/08/briefing/crime-data-us-mass-shootings.html

A Drop in Murders
Despite the grim headlines, 2022 is less violent so far than last year

Crime, murder and mass shootings have dominated headlines this year. Just over the weekend, a shooting in Cincinnati wounded nine people, and another in Detroit killed one and wounded four.

But the full crime data tells a different story. Nationwide, shootings are down 4 percent this year compared to the same time last year. In big cities, murders are down 3 percent. If the decrease in murders continues for the rest of 2022, it will be the first year since 2018 in which they fell in the U.S.

So it's not just gas prices heading in the right direction.

[Johnny2X2X]

1. This needs to be shouted from on high

We saw a wave of crime in the last year of Trump, 2020, then it continued through 2021, but is now going back to normal, which is low for the US historically.