“ The FBI data, which compares crime rates in the third quarter of 2023 to the same period last year, found that violent crime dropped 8%, while property crime fell 6.3% to what would be its lowest level since 1961, according to criminologist Jeff Asher, who analyzed the FBI numbers.”
Why? Jobs. When there are more jobs, crime goes down.
“‘I think we’ve been conditioned, and we have no way of countering the idea’ that crime is rising”
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/people-think-crime-rate-up-actually-down-rcna129585
“ Detroit is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1966, Asher found, while Baltimore and St Louis are on track to post the fewest murders in each city in nearly a decade. A few cities, including Memphis and Washington DC, are still seeing increases in their murder rates, but they are outliers.”
You know who wants to paint the US as being full of crime? The “law and order” party that wants to nominate a rapist as President — the Republican Party.
They can’t win if they acknowledge reality.