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"The number of murders across the country surged by nearly 30% between 2019 and 2020..." "We have data from over 200 cities showing a 12.2% decline ... in 2023
by sxp 3y ago
"The number of murders across the country surged by nearly 30% between 2019 and 2020..."
"We have data from over 200 cities showing a 12.2% decline ... in 2023 relative to 2022,...."
It's so annoying that even "good" news outlets like NPR are incompetent when it comes to showing statistical data. There is no good reason to mix city rates vs country rates or speak only in percentages instead of absolute numbers. Some quick Googling shows https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crime/crime-trend https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/LATEST/webapp/#/pages/explorer/crim... (switch to the homocide data) which gives 2019-2022 numbers as 5.1, 6.5, 6.8, 6.3 per capita.
- torstenvl 3y agoWe're only up 24% from 2019 instead of 27% Somehow I don't feel that's cause for self-congratulation.
- pstrateman 3y agoProperty crimes are up in 2022, that's the first year since 2001 that property crimes got worse. 2001 was the first year since 1991.
- colechristensen 3y agoNPR is no longer a "good" news outlet. I am not aware of any "good" news outlets, unless it's one of the wire services that give you one sentence feeds per news item.
- ttyprintk 3y agoIs there a risk referring to statistical percent of 1991? From that site, I think it's fine to say we're currently living through 50% of 1991 levels.
- mcguire 3y agoThat's a neat page. The data goes back to 1985. The homicide rate in 2021 was 6.8/100,000, which is the same as it was in 1997. 2022's 6.3 is the same as 1998.