From The Brennan Center for Justice:
Murder and violent crime rose sharply in 2020 and 2021, though some trends may have begun to reverse last year. Unfortunately, the data remains much sparser than policymakers and the public would prefer, frustrating our ability to fully understand these important dynamics. Here are five key takeaways from the evidence we have so far:
Murder and gun violence appear to be declining. Murder climbed sharply in 2020, driven in part by increasing gun violence. Those trends began to slow in 2021, and in 2022, murder and shootings appear to have both declined, based on surveys of major cities. (Official government data is not yet available and, even when it is, may be incomplete.). While these changes do not return us to the lower, pre-pandemic levels of violence, they represent a trend in the right direction.
Other types of crimes continued to rise last year. According to one study of cities, while assaults dropped last year, robberies and motor vehicle theft rose. Data from New York City similarly shows a major decline in murders and shootings accompanied by a rise in other types of crime, including robberies. It’s not immediately clear why trends in murder and other types of crime have diverged. Continue reading >>>
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