Murder and other violent crime dropped across the U.S. last year, FBI data shows
Source: NBC
WASHINGTON — Crime, including serious violent incidents like murder and rape, dropped nationally from 2022 to 2023, according to new data released by the FBI on Monday.
Violent crime was down about 3% from 2022 to 2023 and property crime took a similar drop of 2.4%, the FBI reported in its annual "Summary of Crime in the Nation." The most serious crimes went down significantly: Murder and non-negligent manslaughter were down an estimated 11.6% — the largest single year decline in two decades — while rape decreased by an estimated 9.4%.
Preliminary numbers showed that 2024 crime numbers were also dropping for the early part of this year, continuing a trend of crime easing as America has come out of the pandemic.
Public perception of crime is often out of step with the facts, especially in the age of social media, ease of digital communications between neighbors and doorbell cameras when Americans may be more aware of individual crimes than they would have been in the past.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/violent-crime-dropped-america-last-year-new-fbi-data-shows-rcna172217
Yet the repugs have been saying for years that violent crime is getting more and more rampant, always blaming democrats.
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local news is only about shootings, focus on black people shooting each other, rapes or car accidents... 
I listen for traffic reports/road closures and accidents since I drive around daily for my job.
