As far as I know this is fairly unique to the United States, and even then the crime stats are a bit... strange. Overall crime stats are just coming in at the f

As far as I know this is fairly unique to the United States, and even then the crime stats are a bit... strange. Overall crime stats are just coming in at the federal level so the picture is very much incomplete, but if we look at particular cities (ex. New York City), we can see a sharp increase in murder and burglary, but a decrease in basically every other type of crime (leading to a net reduction) [1]. This seems to be the trend in cities across the country including Dallas [2], LA [3], and Chicago [4]. Murders are way up, but overall crime is down. [1]: https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p0106a/overall-crime-new-york-city-reaches-record-low-2020 https://www1.nyc.gov/site/nypd/news/p0106a/overall-crime-new... [2]: https://dallaspolice.net/resources/CrimeReports/NIBRS%20Weekly%20Admin%20Council%20Report%20EOY.pdf https://dallaspolice.net/resources/CrimeReports/NIBRS%20Week... [3]: http://lapd-assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/cityprof.pdf http://lapd-assets.lapdonline.org/assets/pdf/cityprof.pdf [4]: https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-2020-shooting-crime-stats-statistics/9250374/ https://abc7chicago.com/chicago-shootings-2020-shooting-crim...