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It seems like the murder/homicide rates have been on a very steady decline since 2015, but the aggressive arrest policies only came in last year. Should everyo
by chunker_tron 3y ago
It seems like the murder/homicide rates have been on a very steady decline since 2015, but the aggressive arrest policies only came in last year.
Should everyone not be looking at happened in 2015?
- Georgelemental 3y agoBukele took office in 2019, when the murder rate was well within the normal range of the past few decades. It's now far, far below that range (just noticed that the source I linked only goes to 2021, but murders went down by over half again in 2022: https://www.statista.com/statistics/696152/homicide-rate-in-el-salvador/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/696152/homicide-rate-in-..., and they are on trend to do the same this year)