Ah yes, statistical nonsense. >The number of murders across the country surged by nearly 30% between 2019 and 2020, according to FBI statistics. The overall vi

Ah yes, statistical nonsense. >The number of murders across the country surged by nearly 30% between 2019 and 2020, according to FBI statistics. The overall violent crime rate, which includes murder, assault, robbery and rape, inched up around 5% in the same period. > But in 2023, crime in America looked very different. Ok, fun fact, the 2023 murder count was still higher than the 2019 one. Covid effects and restrictions caused an incredible surge in crime rate that has still not been recovered from, years later. That's the story. The story isn't "things are great people are just delusional about crime rates" as NPR/left-wing bias wants to believe. Nor is it "things are worse than ever". But you know what, this lying and manipulation by news sources is exhausting and ridiculous. Show me a graph? Ope, things got ridiculous during covid and improved a lot but not all the way since then. Violent crime is dropping much slower than it grew. If someone would shut up about their political biases one way or the other and actually portray the facts in an honest manner, maybe people would trust the news more and not have such wrong gut feelings. EDIT: Props to Axios for an actual graph and a much more reasonable article which actually discusses the issue at hand. https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rates-drop https://www.axios.com/2023/12/28/us-murder-violent-crime-rat...